1. The Mereological Structure of Informational Entities
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Fumiaki Toyoshima, Jean-François Ethier, Adrien Barton, Paul Fabry, Laure Vieu, MEthodes et ingénierie des Langues, des Ontologies et du DIscours (IRIT-MELODI), Institut de recherche en informatique de Toulouse (IRIT), Université Toulouse 1 Capitole (UT1), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Toulouse 1 Capitole (UT1), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, GRIIS - Groupe de recherche interdisciplinaire en informatique de la santé, Université de Sherbrooke, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione [Trento] (ISTC-CNR)
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Structure (mathematical logic) ,020205 medical informatics ,Computer science ,Information content entity ,020204 information systems ,[SHS.PHIL]Humanities and Social Sciences/Philosophy ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,02 engineering and technology ,Informational structure ,Mereology ,[INFO.INFO-AI]Computer Science [cs]/Artificial Intelligence [cs.AI] ,Epistemology - Abstract
International audience; This article provides the basis of a formal axiomatic system for a mereology of informational entities based on the idea of information fillers that can occupy information slots, such as the same word that can be used in different sentences. It is inspired by Karen Bennett's mereological system that enables a whole to have a part "twice over", but differs from it in several key points, such as the acceptance of empty slots, and the possibility for slots to have slots. Information slots are analyzed as informational entities that can carry aboutness.
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- 2020
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