What to consider about events: A survey on the ontology of occurrents

Rodrigues, Fabrício Henrique; Abel, Mara

doi:10.3233/ao-190217

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“…Symptom processes, it should be clear, are a particular sort of process. This makes symptom processes a member of the metaphysical category of occurrents-a category that includes the likes of processes, states, and events [see Rodrigues and Abel, 2019]. Interestingly, treatment actions also belong to this metaphysical category.…”

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“…Intuitively, continuants are participants in occurrents. For more on the semantics of participation relationships, seeRodrigues and Abel [2019].12Smith et al [2011], for example, represent pain as a bodily process.13 As we will see, this idea of being obliged to participate in processes is one that is common to other types of burden (see Section 4). This makes sense when one considers the general nature of burdens.…”

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Burdening the Predictive Mind: A Predictive Processing Approach to Health-Related Burdens

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The notion of burden features as a central aspect of research into the challenges faced by patients and their carers, especially in regard to long-term health conditions and multimorbidity. Research in this area has considered the burdens that stem from the presence of disease (e.g., symptom burden) as well as the burden associated with healthcare interventions (e.g., treatment burden). While there have been a number of attempts to theorize burden, there is, at present, little consensus on how burdens ought to be understood. It is, in particular, unclear what makes something a burden, why certain things are perceived as burdensome, what forces and factors moderate the experience of burden, and how burdensome experiences relate to other experiential constructs, such as wellbeing, despair, and suffering. The present paper seeks to advance our understanding of burden by drawing on predictive processing accounts of brain function. All burdens, it is suggested, have their origins in a reduced capacity to fulfill neurally-realized expectations (or predictions). This is marked by a hypothesized increase in a particular form of prediction error, dubbed expected prediction error. In addition to providing a unitary theoretical approach to burden, the present account supports the effort to apply predictive processing to a wider array of clinical and health-related phenomena.

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“…A fundamental debate in Ontology as a philosophical discipline [7] regards the ontological status of events versus objects: a commonly held view is that objects continue to exist over time, hence they are also called "continuants", and events occur and/or unfold in time, hence they are also called "occurrents". The latter are sometimes further distinguished into events and processes [8][9][10][11][12][13]. Continuants are commonly thought of as primarily spatial, while occurrents as temporal par excellence.…”

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The LACRIMALit Ontology of Crisis: An Event-Centric Model for Digital History

2022

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The article presents the building of an event-centric model for the computational representation of crisis events using an ontology encoded in the Web Ontology Language (OWL). The work presented here is done in collaboration with the Leaders and Crisis Management in Ancient Literature. A Comparative Approach (LACRIMALit) project, (2022–2025) hosted at the Institute for Mediterranean Studies/Foundation for Research and Technology (IMS-FORTH). A key outcome of the project is the LACRIMALit ontology that aims principally at the semantic annotation of ancient Greek historiographical texts in open access via Perseus Digital Library. The ontology will facilitate reasoning on and across these documents and enable their semantic querying. The tagset of annotations, concepts, relations, and terms of the ontology will be both human and machine readable, extensible and reusable. The annotated corpus of texts to be produced will be available for sophisticated queries based on the concepts and relations, defined by the ontologies. This will considerably improve the string-based querying of the texts in their present digital format. This article presents the principles of conceptualization of the domain in the three dimensions: domain knowledge (mainly classes illustrated with some individuals), linguistic dimension (terms, proper names, definite descriptions), and references.

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“…To ensure generality, it is postulated that the (canonically) causal relation holds between occurrents, their more specific characterization being open to interpretation (Kim, 1976;Davidson, 1980;Botti Benevides, Bourguet, Guizzardi, Peñaloza and Almeida, 2019;Rodrigues and Abel, 2019). The causal relation is generally acknowledged to be irreflexive and asymmetric.…”

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Natural necessity: An introductory guide for ontologists

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2020

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Natural necessity is the kind of necessity that is supplied by 'nature': e.g., necessarily, a glass is broken when it is pressed with a certain force. Relevant topics of natural necessity include causation, dispositions, laws of nature, and counterfactuals. Those subjects are vital for a proper ontological characterization of various entities of scientific inquiry. They are also intimately connected to some scientifically important epistemic notions such as observation, hypothesis, explanation, and prediction. In the field of formal ontology, different notions of natural necessity have been investigated individually to a differing degree and the close interrelationship between them has been little explored. This paper provides an introductory panoramic study of natural necessity in formal ontology to help ontologists utilize it in their actual practice. As for ontology of natural necessity, fundamental commitments to type-level causation, type-level dispositions, and laws of nature are especially discussed. As for its epistemology, close consideration is given to the link between natural necessity and scientific explanation. The practicality of ontology of natural necessity is also illustrated with a case study of suitable primary choices of natural necessity for upper and domain ontologies and its potential application to some domain-specific tasks.

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What to consider about events: A survey on the ontology of occurrents

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Burdening the Predictive Mind: A Predictive Processing Approach to Health-Related Burdens

Burdening the Predictive Mind: A Predictive Processing Approach to Health-Related Burdens

The LACRIMALit Ontology of Crisis: An Event-Centric Model for Digital History

Natural necessity: An introductory guide for ontologists

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