WEB METAPHYSICS BETWEEN LOGIC AND ONTOLOGY

WWW2012 conference workshop PhiloWeb 2012: "Web and Philosophy, Why and What For?"

Philippe Lacour

Others  :  http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-859/paper5.pdf
PID  :  43655

来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

One of the possible intersections between the Web and Philosophy lies in the use of the term ‘ontology’ by the Web architects. Indeed,the term “ontology” belongs to the classical vocabulary of the branch of philosophy called Metaphysics, which is concerned with thevery nature of the world. Considering the Web as a form of (virtual) world, one could very well apply traditional philosophicalquestions to the stuff of this universe. Is it made of items (datas), processes (actions), or even things? What kind of ontology do weneed to describe it? In this paper, we will argue that philosophy should focus less on ontology than on logic (namely, semantics) totackle the issue, therefore slightly changing the way the problem is set. We shall take the case of Web Translation as an example. In sodoing, we will show that a philosophy of the Web is justified to the extent that it somehow plays the role of psychoanalysis of culture,