Chemical substance, material, product, goods, waste: a changing ontology
| Autor: | Elena Maria Ghibaudi, Luigi Cerruti |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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| Popis: | A chemical substance (CS) is instantiated in the material world by a number of quantities of such substance (QCSs), placed in different locations. A change of location implies a change in the net of relationships entertained by the QCS with the region wherein it is found. This fact entails changes of the ontological status of the CS, as this is not fully determined by the inherent features of the CS and includes a relevant relational contribution. In order to demonstrate this thesis, we have chosen to analyse the status of quantities of a same CS that are synchronically located in different spacetime regions: a synthetic lab, a lab where the QCS is turned into a material, an industrial plant, the market where the QCS gets a price and a dump waste where the QCS is discarded, respectively: Chemical substance material (industrial) product goods waste The use of first-order predicate logic, mereology and locative logic allows carrying out a regimentation process that highlights the ontological commitments implied by the formal expressions through which each element of the aforementioned series can be described. The presence of relational properties discloses the systemic nature of the CS instantiated within a spacetime region. The implications of such an aspect are discussed. |
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