The cornucopia of formal-ontological relations

Barry Smith; Pierre Grenon

doi:10.1111/j.1746-8361.2004.tb00305.x

The cornucopia of formal-ontological relations

Barry Smith
, Pierre Grenon

Philosophy

Saarland University

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The paper presents a new method for generating typologies of formal-ontological relations. The guiding idea is that formal relations are those sorts of relations which hold between entities which are constituents of distinct ontologies. We provide examples of ontologies (in the spirit of Zemach's classic "Four Ontologies" of 1970), and show how these can be used to give a rich typology of formal relations in a way which also throws light on the opposition between three-and four-dimensionalism.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	279-296
Number of pages	18
Journal	Dialectica
Volume	58
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1746-8361.2004.tb00305.x
State	Published - 2004

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