<div dir="ltr"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I was reading a science article which used "ontology" in a way I was not familiar with.</span><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">     </span><a href="https://medium.com/@sasha.manu95/an-overview-of-dark-matter-9aa5d024d65d">https://medium.com/@sasha.manu95/an-overview-of-dark-matter-9aa5d024d65d</a></div><div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">One of the oldest projects in science involves constructing a fundamental ontology.</blockquote><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">So I Googled "ontology" and got a definition along with a graph of usage over time!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">So apparently their use was the second, the "spanning set" of concepts within a field .. maybe primarily scientific/technical.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div><img src="cid:ii_jq6vie5s0" alt="Snap.12.27.18-10.15.54.jpg" style="margin-right: 0px;" width="548" height="776"><br></div><div><br></div><div>   -- Owen</div></div><br></div></div>