Descriptive, formal and formalized ontologies

pp. 183-210

in: Denis Fisette, Husserl's logical investigations reconsidered, Berlin, Springer, 2003

Abstract

I shall distinguish descriptive, formal and formalized ontology. Each of these ontologies comes in two guises: domain-dependent and domain-independent. Domain-dependent ontologies concern categorically closed regions of being; on the other hand, a domain-independent ontology may be properly called general ontology.