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#physical-objects
Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle)
Experiences versus objects without qualitative feel
So far you have had three types of conscious experiences: thinking about something, intentionally doing something, and feeling a sensation. What is the problem? Well, now look at the objects around you, the chairs and tables, houses and trees. These objects are not in any sense…
Ontology - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Classic ontological questions
Further examples of ontological questions include:[citation needed] What is existence, i.e. what does it mean for a being to be? Is existence a property? Is existence a genus or general class that is simply divided up by specific differences? Which entities, if any, are…
The Cidoc Conceptual Reference Module: An Ontological Approach To Semantic Interoperability Of Metadata
Semantic uniqueness of properties
[...] we require semantic uniqueness of properties: no two properties with the same semantics should be declared for two different domains, e.g. a property has age from people to number of years and a property life-span from animals to number of years should be merged and…