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(2010) Theory and applications of ontology, Dordrecht, Springer.
Comparative formal ontology is the study of how different informal ontologies can be formalized and compared with one another in their overall adequacy as explanatory frameworks. One important criterion of adequacy of course is consistency, a condition that can be satisfied only by formalization. Formalization also makes explicit the commitments of an ontology.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-8845-1_5
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Cocchiarella, N. B. (2010)., Actualism versus possibilism in formal ontology, in R. Poli & J. Seibt (eds.), Theory and applications of ontology, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 105-117.
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