Concept
Process ontology
Overview
In philosophy, a process ontology refers to a universal model of the structure of the world as an ordered wholeness. Such ontologies are fundamental ontologies, in contrast to the so-called applied ontologies. Fundamental ontologies do not claim to be accessible to any empirical proof in itself but to be a structural design pattern, out of which empirical phenomena can be explained and put together consistently. Throughout Western history, the dominating fundamental ontology is the so-called substance theory. However, fundamental process ontologies have become more important in recent times, because the progress in the discovery of the foundations of physics has spurred the development of a basic concept able to integrate such boundary notions as "energy," "object", and those of the physical dimensions of space and time.
In computer science, a process ontology is a description of the components and their relationships that make up a process. A formal process ontology is an ontology in the knowledge domain of operations. Often such ontologies take advantage of the benefits of an upper ontology. Planning software can be used to perform plan generation based on the formal description of the process and its constraints. Numerous efforts have been made to define a process/planning ontology.
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A book without content is, as every one knows, not a book with empty leaves, but one of which the content is as good as none. We shall find as the last result on closer analysis, that by what is called content an educated mind means nothing but the presence and power of thought. But this is to admit that thoughts are not empty forms without affinity to their content, and that in other spheres as well as in art the…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Logic of Hegel
States what Process ontology is.
The generative idea of a poem is developed in thousands of imaginations which are materialized in phrases that spread themselves out in words. And the more we descend from the motionless idea, wound on itself, to the words that unwind it, the more room is left for contingency and choice. Other metaphors, expressed by other words, might have arisen; an image is called up by an image, a word by a word. All these words…
Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution
States what Process ontology is.
It is a substratum; it lies under, in a passive way, qualities; it is (literally) substance; it simply stands, inactively, under phenomena. It may, by possibility, _have_ actions; but it _has_ them. Activities are qualities which, like all qualities, are in external relation to the substance. Being, in other words, is the primary notion, and "being" means something essentially passive and merely enduring…
John Dewey, Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding
States what Process ontology is.
Philosophers who discussed Process ontology
Related ideas
- Process philosophy
- Michel Weber
- Substance theory
- Space
- Time
- Empirical evidence
- Subject and object (philosophy)
- Computer science
- Phenomenon
- Energy
Place in the tradition
Part of Monism.