If we ask researchers in applied ontology what they think justify the foundational onto-logical system(s) they develop or use, we get a variety of answers that, for the purposes of this paper, I suggest to split in three general classes:1. A foundational ontology models reality as it is or, alternatively, as we can best understand it.Most researchers I know in this class work in domains where there is the need to relate and exploit a very large set of notions like in medicine.
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