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(1999) Shapes of forms, Dordrecht, Springer.
Top-level categories of an ontology are derived from contrasting features that distinguish the entities of a subject domain. Each distinctive feature is associated with axioms that are inherited by every entity or category of entities that have that feature. A hierarchy of categories can then be derived as a lattice formed as a product of the fundamental distinctions. This paper develops such a lattice based on philosophical distinctions taken primarily from the theories of Charles Sanders Peirce and Alfred North Whitehead.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-2990-1_12
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Sowa, J. F. (1999)., Ontological categories, in L. Albertazzi (ed.), Shapes of forms, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 307-340.
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