A Scientist-Poet's Account of Ontology in Information Science

Parallax Ontology and the Philosophy of Information

“…Based on this reasoning, one might conclude that the applied ontologists' proposition that one should consider computational ontologies as windows into reality reiterates the early modern scientists' aspiration to transcribe the book of nature and disregards how the informativeness of representations in those systems are contingent on the context of historical and institutional documentary practices (Compton, 2014a). Frohmann's (2004) analysis seems in some regard to be an antiphilosophy of information, the sort of which is essential to addressing important counterpoints and antithetical perspectives regarding information when compiling a parallax ontology and the role of information therein-the more knowledgeable the contributions and the more parallax gaps that are identified, the more comprehensive the picture becomes.…”

“…better grasp of what ontology means in different contexts; • help them, through deductive reasoning, conclude what the term means within the context of their profession; • provide knowledge-management specialists better fundamental understanding of computational ontology's grounding principles, thus providing them with a more nuanced appreciation of the strengths and weaknesses of that thinking in system development; and • aid educators in elucidating what ontology means contextually, particularly within the context of knowledge management (Compton, 2014a(Compton, , 2014b). …”