Ontology

1 Introduction In "e-Business Model Ontologies" [Gordijn, 2004], Gordijn describes reasons for failure of many e-Business projects and proposes the graphical e3 value ontology to tackle these problems. He states that a lot of business project are unsuccessful, because the stakeholders do not succeed to in getting a common understanding of the project and that companies fail in making the value of the project clear to the customer. Gordijn then describes three viewpoints of the e3 value model. He…

proponent, Jean Paul Sartre aptly encapsulated the philosophy of Existentialism as, “existence precedes essence”; a thing is first thrown into being, and its nature is subsequently established—a contradictory belief to former, more traditional views of ontology. Existentialism asserts that this initial “throw” into existence is where a thing’s reality begins, and that it is the sole responsibility of said thing to determine its nature, or “essence”. There are no inherent truths, or predetermined…

Heidegger sought to radicalize the traditional understanding of what it means to be human and the transform the ‘common sense’ approach held by the tradition by reawakening the question of the meaning of being; however, he arrived too early. Even though his unfinished edifice was successfully nailed on the door of Cartesian tradition long ago; the discussion fell, and is still falling, upon deaf ears. This split with the tradition led him to a disagreement with his old master Edmund Husserl…

This includes the different forms of knowledge of the reality identified by ontology. With regards to the positivist approach, it is suggested that it employs a scientific discourse derived from the epistemologies of positivism and realism. It is possible to obtain hard, secure knowledge about what exists in society. In the social…

Yogācāra is one of the influential schools of Buddhist philosophy that emphasizes ontology through the heart of meditation and literally means the practice of yoga. Additionally, those who follow the Yogācāra are of an idealist approach and deny the existence of the external world, as well as any physical or material realities existing independently of the mind (Bartley, p. 68). The purpose of this paper is to outline three practical approaches to convince sixth century realist opponents that…

At the philosophical school of existentialism’s core lies an understanding of the consciousness that leads to a new outlook on life. The consciousness is understood to be different from anything material in this universe and existentialists view it as being “for-itself,” that is, able to be aware of its own self. Thus, with the unconscious part of the universe and the conscious part of the universe, the existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre created the unique categories of being, transcendence and…

evolutionary biology. Next, my discussion divides into two sections on divine purpose and goodness reflected in evolution. Next, engaging with evolutionary theodicy, I present a Trinitarian divine action in creation in the context of the eschatological ontology of creation. I believe this study is significant in that it goes beyond metaphysical naturalism, scientific creationism, and the two-language approach by respecting both the integrity of natural sciences and the gospel of God’s…

In this essay I aim to show what Heidegger believes is distinctive about anxiety in contrast to every other mood. To do this, I will start by describing Heidegger’s view on moods, before contrasting this with his thoughts on anxiety to show why he believes it is more significant and unique than any other. I will then provide an argument against this view to show how in fact Heidegger is not justified in thinking this due to his later view on profound boredom. First, I will describe Heidegger’s…

In short, human agency is reflective: we can reflectively response to the explanation and evaluation of our previous behaviors. However, this characteristic of human agency can hardly be taken into account by ECM since there are only events in the ontology of ECM, but only persistent agents can response to evaluations of previous…

Central to Russell’s “On Denoting” view is the propositional function. The propositional function is an abstract entity that comes about from the extraction of the denoting phrase such that a gap is produced or some variable, x, that is “essentially and wholly undetermined” (“On Denoting”, 480). In the proposition “an Athenian studied with Plato”, the logical form for such a sentence is “there is an x, x is Athenian, x studied with Plato”. Russell’s analysis of the phrase “an Athenian studied…