Terminologie et ontologie

Abstract

Christophe Roche : Terminologie et ontologie. Occidental philosophy has been for centuries implicated in the way languages refer to the world. Ontologies are the result of the thought applied to the existence of things. Nowadays, ontologies represent entities handled by companies, such as products, processes, and so on. They are more and more involved in data processing. Actually, one of the aims of ontology treatment is to make sure that a designation corresponds to a concept and that both -concept and designation- refer to a well specified object. Logic as science of well formulated propositions is also involved in such data modeling.