Beyond Concepts: Ontology as Reality Representation

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What Is an Ontology? (2009, background): “Also, Smith made us aware that the notion of “concept” is quite ambiguous [14].”
Concept annotation in the CRAFT corpus (2012, background): “We are aware of published work that emphasizes that ontologies and terminologies represent reality rather than concepts [29,30], and for those readers who sub-scribe to this view, the word “ concept ” may be substituted with “ class ” , “ universal ” , or “ type ” throughout.”
Ontological realism: A methodology for coordinated evolution of scientific ontologies (2010, unknown): “To this end we have proposed the set of categories together forming the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) (Grenon and Smith, 2004), speciﬁcally the three top-level categories of independent continuant , dependent continuant and occurrent .”