For this second entry in the series, I would like to address an issue that puzzles me from the first time I came into contact with it: ontologies need not depend on objects, they can be process-oriented and function-oriented.
Reality, existence itself, seems to be time-dependent.
Even if it is a thought, which will need to take body somewhere, but is not necessarily located there, therefore independent of space, it will still need to exist temporally, that is, throughout its duration, whatever it may be.
Existence, therefore, is not a static characteristic of an object, but a time-dependent function (of consideration).
On the one hand, this allows ontologies to embed their own meta-theories; on the other hand, it allows self-hosting and bootstrapping. Thus, ontologies will depend much less on adjacent and auxiliary disciplines, and will still benefit from formal advances that deeply concern meta-theories.
Perhaps we may even call the classical ones "object-centered ontologies", not to confuse them with the contemporary "much ado for nothing" object-oriented ontology (I am unsure if it is permissible to pluralize it – but I am sure of what I read and it is weak).
For the time being, it is better to explore ways of formalizing this. The next entry in this series will deal with the first step towards this formalization.
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