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Why Philosophize; Why not Just Model?

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Conceptual modelling relies on the availability of good quality modelling languages (MLs). However, many of these MLs have not been created in any well-organized and consistent manner leading to identified flaws and ambiguities. These result, in part, from the lack of an ontological commitment, the neglect of language use and speech act theory and possibly incoherent philosophical underpinnings. These various disciplines are examined in the context of their potential integration into the creation of the next generation of modelling languages.

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    Regarding social entities as non-materialistic comes from the language use community. In contrast, in both the endurant component of UFO and in the perdurantist BORO foundational ontologies, all such entities are considered to be materialistic.

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Acknowledgements

I wish to thank, in alphabetical order, Pär Ågerfalk, Sergio de Cesare, Owen Eriksson, Cesar Gonzalez-Perez, Chris Partridge and Greg Walkerden who have helped me co-author many of the papers cited herein as well as providing useful and constructive comments on an earlier draft of this keynote paper. I also acknowledge many discussions with Giancarlo Guizzardi over the past several years.

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Henderson-Sellers, B. (2015). Why Philosophize; Why not Just Model?. In: Johannesson, P., Lee, M., Liddle, S., Opdahl, A., Pastor López, Ó. (eds) Conceptual Modeling. ER 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9381. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25264-3_1

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