GFO

(heterarchy with multiple inheritance)

Issues

aren't "material processes" and "social processes" still processes?
fine line between categories and attributives
- "Categories provide the basic structure of the ontology, defining what kinds of things exist, whereas attributives are used to describe specific qualities or features of these things."

OWL

There is an OWL version of GFO, which currently comprises a stable core called gfo-basic.owl and a more extensive version called gfo.owl. The stable URLs to the current releases of these files are:

http://www.onto-med.de/ontologies/gfo-basic.owl

(version 1.0, build 13, 07.10.2008)
http://www.onto-med.de/ontologies/gfo.owl

(version 1.0, build 9, 28.08.2006)

Features

coherent integration of objects and processes (based on a novel category of persistants)
time and space entities as entities sui generis, and the relation of coincidence
a category of situoids, comprehensible wholes of the most independent character
elaborate accounts of functions and roles
openness regarding philosophical positions such as realism, conceptualism, or nominalism by the provision of different kinds of categories as universals, concepts, or symbolic structures
levels of reality and ontological regions
three-layered meta-ontological architecture consisting of an abstract top level, an abstract core level, and a basic level.

Concepts, Symbol Structures, and Platonic and Immanent Universals

@gemini.1.5.advanced GFO accounts for different philosophical stances: It accommodates those who believe in the real existence of universals outside of minds (realism), those who view them as primarily mental (conceptualism), and those who emphasize representations (nominalism).

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Issues

OWL

Features

Concepts, Symbol Structures, and Platonic and Immanent Universals

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