Slide 1 1 How to Rent a Car (and Why you Can’t Rent a Person): The Ontology of Production and Consumption Barry Smith http://ontologist.com Slide 2 2 Nouns and verbs Substances…

Slide 1 1 SNAP and SPAN Barry Smith and Pierre Grenon University at Buffalo and ifomis.de University of Leipzig Slide 2 2 Fourdimensionalism – time is just another dimension,…

Slide 1 1 The Cornucopia of Formal- Ontological Relations Barry Smith and Pierre Grenon Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science Slide 2 2 Realist Perspectivalism…

Slide 1 AN INTRODUCTION TO BIOMEDICAL ONTOLOGY Barry Smith University at Buffalo http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith 1 Slide 2 Uses of ‘ontology’ in PubMed abstracts 2…

Slide 1 1 VT Slide 2 2 The Ontology of Commodities and Services, or: Why You Can Rent a Car but Cannot Rent a Person): Barry Smith http://ontologist.com Slide 3 3 Nouns and…

Slide 1 Slide 2 1 VT Slide 3 2 Ontology and Ontologies Barry Smith Slide 4 3 IFOMIS Strategy get real ontology right first and then investigate ways in which this real ontology…

Slide 1 VT Slide 2 SNAP and SPAN Slide 3 Substances Mesoscopic reality is divided at its natural joints into substances: animals, bones, rocks, potatoes Slide 4 The Ontology…