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Ontologies as formal shared conceptualizations

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2026-07-23

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Ontologies as formal shared conceptualizations

Frank Coyle defines an ontology as a formal specification of a shared conceptualization and says agents should be given that conceptualization of their domain.

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Why Agentic Systems Need Ontologies — Frank Coyle, UC Berkeley

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It is a, a formal specification of a shared conceptualization, and that's what we wanna give to our agents. We wanna give them our concept-- our conceptualization of the universe, our universe, our domains.
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knowledge and, uh, graph technology really represents.

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