Analytic Metaphysics 9: The Ontology of Classification

Lecture delivered in Buffalo, April 5, 2016

[digitalsocialism]

Have you ever thought of an ontology of mental operations (piaget, guilford)? Like for example analysis, synthesis, abstractions, comparisons? It would be interesting if it included an ontology of entities such as Sowa's, for example, process analytics (discrete and continuous, serial and parallel), well the suggestion is.

[iantomes]

At 1hr 25 minutes, why do you treat ratios specially? E.g., m/s Doesn’t the denominator of the ratio exist s^-1 or 1/s? If 1/s exists, then why would m/s be any different than m^2 or m^3?