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I've studied philosophy for many years and still ontology seems like much too much a philosophy jargon word to use on HN. (You write as if everyone will underst
by yesenadam 8y ago
I've studied philosophy for many years and still ontology seems like much too much a philosophy jargon word to use on HN. (You write as if everyone will understand you.) Well, maybe programmers generally use/know it, sorry if so.
- icebraining 8y agoIt started in philosophy, but it has spread to the CS field. I doubt most developers I work with would understand the word, but it's relatively common if you work in certain areas (the Semantic Web, for example, has https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Ontology_Language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Ontology_Language)
- yesenadam 8y agoAhh ok, thank you! Hmm yeah, I'd never heard of all that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology_(information_science) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology_(information_science)