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The ancient philosophical discipline of ontology has been rediscovered for the purposes of artificial intelligence (Hayes, 1978; Hayes, 1985b). The importance of fixing exactly what is at the base of the things one talks about and of specifying how the different terms interact becomes evident when one attempts in a serious fashion to construct models of the real world. Above all, because in natural language different points of view are brought to bear, confusion and incompatibility can arise.
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Francesco de Sanctis
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Frank, A.U. (1997). Spatial Ontology: A Geographical Information Point of View. In: Stock, O. (eds) Spatial and Temporal Reasoning. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-585-28322-7_5
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