Conceptualization

• Set of objects about which knowledge is being expressed

  • Universe of discourse
  • Objects can be –
    • Concrete Clyde, my car
    • Abstract Justice, 2
    • Primitive Resister
    • Composite Electric circuit
    • Fictional Sherlock Holmes
  • Objects always in the conceptualization (i.e., in the ontology)
    • Real and complex numbers
    • All finite lists of objects
    • Words
    • ASCII characters
    • Finite strings of ASCII characters
    • ^ (bottom)

• Set of relations and functions on the objects

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