Taxonomy vs. Ontology

Taxonomynoun

The science or the technique used to make a classification.

Taxonomynoun

A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.

Taxonomynoun

The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

Taxonomynoun

That division of the natural sciences which treats of the classification of animals and plants, primarily by consideration of their natural relationships with respect to their structure or genetic origin; the laws or principles of classification; systematics.

Taxonomynoun

A systematic arrangement of objects or concepts showing the relations between them, especially one including a hierarchical arrangement of types in which categories of objects are classified as subtypes of more abstract categories, starting from one or a small number of top categories, and descending to more specific types through an arbitrary number of levels. An ontology usually contains a taxonomy as one of the important principles of organization.

Taxonomynoun

a classification of organisms into groups based on similarities of structure or origin etc

Taxonomynoun

(biology) study of the general principles of scientific classification

Taxonomynoun

practice of classifying plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships

Ontologynoun

The branch of metaphysics that addresses the nature or essential characteristics of being and of things that exist; the study of being qua being.

Ontologynoun

In a subject view, or a world view, the set of conceptual or material things or classes of things that are recognised as existing, or are assumed to exist in context; in a body of theory, the ontology comprises the domain of discourse, the things that are defined as existing, together with whatever emerges from their mutual implications.

Ontologynoun

The theory of a particular philosopher or school of thought concerning the fundamental types of entity in the universe.

Ontologynoun

(logic) A logical system involving theory of classes, developed by Stanislaw Lesniewski (1886-1939).

Ontologynoun

A structure of concepts or entities within a domain, organized by relationships; a system model.

Ontologynoun

That department of the science of metaphysics which investigates and explains the nature and essential properties and relations of all beings, as such, or the principles and causes of being.

Ontologynoun

A systematic arrangement of all of the important categories of objects or concepts which exist in some field of discourse, showing the relations between them. When complete, an ontology is a categorization of all of the concepts in some field of knowledge, including the objects and all of the properties, relations, and functions needed to define the objects and specify their actions. A simplified ontology may contain only a hierarchical classification (a taxonomy) showing the type subsumption relations between concepts in the field of discourse. An ontology may be visualized as an abstract graph with nodes and labeled arcs representing the objects and relations.

Ontologynoun

the metaphysical study of the nature of being and existence

Ontology

Ontology is the branch of philosophy that studies concepts such as existence, being, becoming, and reality. It includes the questions of how entities are grouped into basic categories and which of these entities exist on the most fundamental level.