Sentence examples for categories of entity from inspiring English sources

But if truth-evaluable existential and quantificational claims must tacitly presuppose some category or categories of entity over which we are quantifying, then such arguments go astray.

Thomasson (2007) gives independent grounds for thinking that all quantification must at least tacitly presuppose a category or categories of entity over which we are quantifying, and argues that adopting that view provides the uniform basis for dissolving a number of problems supposed to arise with accepting an ontology of ordinary objects.

Both realist and descriptivist category systems, at least as traditionally presented, seem to presuppose that there is a unique true answer to the question of what categories of entity there are—indeed the discovery of this answer is the goal of most such inquiries into ontological categories.

We need to realize that many of our present "phylogenies of life" correspond to diverse mappings that sometimes represent the history of genes, groups of genes, or perhaps even other categories of entity (for example, processes such as change in genomic G+C content).

Signatories to the code would also have to list any of eight categories of entities with which their apps shared information; these include ad networks; mobile carriers; consumer data resellers; data analytics companies; government entities; operating systems; social networks; or other apps.

Extraction systems are used to identify elements in a text document that belong to predefined categories of entities and to extract relationships or associations among/between entities [14].

Thus when Gilbert Ryle (1949, 1938/1971) talks of categories, he does not speak directly of categories of entities, but rather of differing logical types of concepts, where such type differences are detectable by the absurdities that result from substituting in terms of one sort for terms of another in sentences of certain kinds (see §2.2 below).

But although on this interpretation Aristotle seems to have arrived at his categories by considering different sorts of question and answer, the categories he was offering were supposed to be categories of entities, not of language; language was just a clue to truths about the world.

Most fundamental to the ontological framework of a scientific field will be categories of entities and the kinds of relations that hold between these entities.

For instance, with a column for each feature (document type, annotation tool, categories of entities, number of mentions, format, availability, etc).

The JNLPBA corpus consists of 22,402 sentences from MEDLINE (18,546 sentences for training and 3,856 for test), where five categories of entities (protein, DNA, RNA, cell line, and cell type) were manually annotated.