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(1996) Formal ontology, Dordrecht, Springer.
A formal ontology is both a theory of logical form and a metaphysical theory about the ontological structure of the world. What makes it a theory of logical form is that different ontological categories or modes of being are represented in it by different logico-grammatical categories. It is specified in this regard by what might be called an ontological grammar that determines how the expressions of those logico-grammatical categories can be meaningfully combined so as to represent different ontological aspects of the world.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-8733-4_2
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Cocchiarella, N. B. (1996)., Conceptual realism as a formal ontology, in R. Poli & P. Simons (eds.), Formal ontology, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 27-60.
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