A basic conceptual structure.
The larger branches of a tree that determine its shape.
A reusable piece of code (and, sometimes, other utilities) providing a standard environment within which an application can be implemented.
These ‘three principles of connexion’ compose the framework of principles in Hume's account of the association of ideas.
The arrangement of support beams that represent a building's general shape and size.
A support structure comprising joined parts or conglomerated particles and intervening open spaces of similar or larger size.
A structure of concepts or entities within a domain, organized by relationships; a system model.
A logical system involving theory of classes, developed by Stanislaw Lesniewski (1886-1939).
The theory of a particular philosopher or school of thought concerning the fundamental types of entity in the universe.
The branch of metaphysics that addresses the nature or essential characteristics of being and of things that exist; the study of being qua being.
In a subject view, or a world view, the set of conceptual or material things or classes of things that are recognised as existing, or are assumed to exist in context, and their interrelations; in a body of theory, the ontology comprises the domain of discourse, the things that are defined as existing, together with whatever emerges from their mutual implications.