id: 4101,1
title: Basic concepts of ontology.
date: 2023-11-19

Basic concepts of ontology.

Especially in relation to mereology:rV1

• Ordinary objects: Average and obvious objects such as chairs.
• Composition: All things are composed of simples.
• Simples: Some basic component of the universe that is not composed itself. (In a “gunky” universe, though, there are no simples, just infinitely lower orders of composition. Contrast with “junky”, which has infinitely larger structures which everything rolls upward into.)
• Existence has senses: The neutral sense refers literally to groups of simples, while the sortal sense refers to higher-level countable objects. Simples need an application condition to have enough information to distinguish things.