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Barry Smith at the Ontology Summit 2025
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Ken Baclawski
Feb 11, 2025, 12:00:18 AMFeb 11
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The Ontology Summit 2025 will continue on Wednesday 12 February 2025 at Noon US/Canada Eastern Time and will feature
Barry Smith
who will be presenting
Models, theories and ontologies
The session will be on Zoom at
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88593616861?pwd=HafnK0yB7PFDK1EyiUyQRDKanZlbjU.1
For the time in your time zone see https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=2&day=12&year=2025&hour=12&min=00&sec=0&p1=179
The web page for the session is available at https://ontologforum.com/index.php/ConferenceCall_2025_02_12
Abstract: In the paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.01560 Jobst Landgrebe and I outline the beginnings of on ontology of physics and mathematics from a BFO (= commonsensical) perspective. I will sketch how the ontologies of classical and modern physics relate to the ontology of common sense and of mathematics. In brief, classical physics inherits the common-sense view of nature, and uses mathematics to formalise our natural understanding of the causes and effects we observe in time and space when we select subsystems of nature for modelling. But in modern physics, we do not extend the realm of common sense by augmenting our knowledge of what is going on in nature. Rather, we have measurements that we do not understand, so we know nothing about the ontology of what we measure. We help ourselves by using entities from mathematics, which we do understand ontologically.
In case you are unable to attend, all summit sessions are recorded and posted on the session web page (usually within a day or two). The recording will also be posted on the Ontology Summit YouTube channel.
Ken Baclawski
Chair, Ontolog Board of Trustees
Barry Smith
who will be presenting
Models, theories and ontologies
The session will be on Zoom at
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88593616861?pwd=HafnK0yB7PFDK1EyiUyQRDKanZlbjU.1
For the time in your time zone see https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=2&day=12&year=2025&hour=12&min=00&sec=0&p1=179
The web page for the session is available at https://ontologforum.com/index.php/ConferenceCall_2025_02_12
Abstract: In the paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.01560 Jobst Landgrebe and I outline the beginnings of on ontology of physics and mathematics from a BFO (= commonsensical) perspective. I will sketch how the ontologies of classical and modern physics relate to the ontology of common sense and of mathematics. In brief, classical physics inherits the common-sense view of nature, and uses mathematics to formalise our natural understanding of the causes and effects we observe in time and space when we select subsystems of nature for modelling. But in modern physics, we do not extend the realm of common sense by augmenting our knowledge of what is going on in nature. Rather, we have measurements that we do not understand, so we know nothing about the ontology of what we measure. We help ourselves by using entities from mathematics, which we do understand ontologically.
In case you are unable to attend, all summit sessions are recorded and posted on the session web page (usually within a day or two). The recording will also be posted on the Ontology Summit YouTube channel.
Ken Baclawski
Chair, Ontolog Board of Trustees
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