Jacob Lorhard’s Ontology: A 17th Century Hypertext on the Reality and Temporality of the World of Intelligibles

Peter Øhrstrøm; Henrik Schärfe; Sara Uckelman

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-70596-3

Jacob Lorhard’s Ontology: A 17th Century Hypertext on the Reality and Temporality of the World of Intelligibles

Peter Øhrstrøm, Henrik Schärfe, Sara Uckelman

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Jacob Lorhard published his ontology in 1606. In this work the term ontologia ‘ontology’ was used for the first time ever. In this paper, it is argued that Lorhard’s ontology provides a useful key to the understanding of the early
17th-century world view in Protestant Europe. Among other things, Lorhard’s ontology reflects how the relations between scientific investigation and religious belief were seen. It is also argued that several of the conceptual
choices which Lorhard made in order to establish his ontology may still be relevant for modern makers of ontological systems. In particular, Lorhard’s considerations on the notions of reality and time deserve modern reflections.
Also his assumption of the educational value of diagrammatical ontology deserves a modern discussion. Along with this paper an online hypertext version of Lorhard’s ontology has been presented in order to create a useful tool
for historical research in early 17th-century thought and in order to illustrate the problems, which characterized the early attempt at establishing a diagrammatical approach to ontology.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Conceptual Structures: Knowledge Visualization and Reasoning : 16th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2008 Toulouse, France, July 7-11, 2008 Proceedings
Editors	Peter Eklund, O. Haemmerlé
Publisher	Springer
Publication date	2008
Pages	74-87
ISBN (Print)	978-3-540-70595-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70596-3
Publication status	Published - 2008
Event	ICCS 08 - Conceptual Structures: Knowledge Visualization and Reasoning - Toulouse, France Duration: 5 Oct 2008 → 11 Oct 2008 Conference number: 16

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Conference	ICCS 08 - Conceptual Structures: Knowledge Visualization and Reasoning
Number	16
Country/Territory	France
City	Toulouse
Period	05/10/2008 → 11/10/2008

Series	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Number	5113
ISSN	0302-9743

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Ontology
Formal ontology
History of Logic

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Øhrstrøm, P., Schärfe, H., & Uckelman, S. (2008). Jacob Lorhard’s Ontology: A 17th Century Hypertext on the Reality and Temporality of the World of Intelligibles. In P. Eklund, & O. Haemmerlé (Eds.), Conceptual Structures: Knowledge Visualization and Reasoning: 16th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2008 Toulouse, France, July 7-11, 2008 Proceedings (pp. 74-87). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70596-3

Øhrstrøm, Peter ; Schärfe, Henrik ; Uckelman, Sara. / Jacob Lorhard’s Ontology: A 17th Century Hypertext on the Reality and Temporality of the World of Intelligibles. Conceptual Structures: Knowledge Visualization and Reasoning: 16th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2008 Toulouse, France, July 7-11, 2008 Proceedings. editor / Peter Eklund ; O. Haemmerlé. Springer, 2008. pp. 74-87 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; No. 5113).

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Øhrstrøm, P, Schärfe, H & Uckelman, S 2008, Jacob Lorhard’s Ontology: A 17th Century Hypertext on the Reality and Temporality of the World of Intelligibles. in P Eklund & O Haemmerlé (eds), Conceptual Structures: Knowledge Visualization and Reasoning: 16th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2008 Toulouse, France, July 7-11, 2008 Proceedings. Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, no. 5113, pp. 74-87, ICCS 08 - Conceptual Structures: Knowledge Visualization and Reasoning, Toulouse, France, 05/10/2008. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70596-3

Jacob Lorhard’s Ontology: A 17th Century Hypertext on the Reality and Temporality of the World of Intelligibles. / Øhrstrøm, Peter; Schärfe, Henrik; Uckelman, Sara.
Conceptual Structures: Knowledge Visualization and Reasoning: 16th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2008 Toulouse, France, July 7-11, 2008 Proceedings. ed. / Peter Eklund; O. Haemmerlé. Springer, 2008. p. 74-87 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; No. 5113).

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Øhrstrøm P, Schärfe H, Uckelman S. Jacob Lorhard’s Ontology: A 17th Century Hypertext on the Reality and Temporality of the World of Intelligibles. In Eklund P, Haemmerlé O, editors, Conceptual Structures: Knowledge Visualization and Reasoning: 16th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2008 Toulouse, France, July 7-11, 2008 Proceedings. Springer. 2008. p. 74-87. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; No. 5113). doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-70596-3

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