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Semantics and metaphysics in informatics: toward an ontology of tasks
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Semantics and metaphysics in informatics: toward an ontology of tasks

Carrie Figdor
Topics in cognitive science, Vol.3(2), pp.222-226
04/2011
DOI: 10.1111/j.1756-8765.2011.01133.x
PMID: 25164287

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Abstract

This article clarifies three principles that should guide the development of any cognitive ontology. First, that an adequate cognitive ontology depends essentially on an adequate task ontology; second, that the goal of developing a cognitive ontology is independent of the goal of finding neural implementations of the processes referred to in the ontology; and third, that cognitive ontologies are neutral regarding the metaphysical relationship between cognitive and neural processes.
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