(computer science) a rigorous and exhaustive organization of some knowledge domain that is usually hierarchical and contains all the relevant entities and their relations
the metaphysical study of the nature of being and existence
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The ontology possesses inherent consistency with human nature.本体论与人的本性具有内在的一致性。
Recently, the research about Ontology is developed widely in computer science.近年来,关于本体论方法的研究正在计算机科学界广泛开展起来。