Conceptualizing the world: Lessons from history

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 267-273

  McCray, Alexa T ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Concept formation; History; Knowledge representation; Metaphysics; Semantics; Terminology

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS;

BIOLOGICAL TAXONOMY; CONCEPT FORMATION; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; METAPHYSICS;

SEMANTICS;

ARTICLE; CODING; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; HISTORY; PHILOSOPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIENTIST; SEMANTICS; SYSTEMATIZED NOMENCLATURE OF MEDICINE; TAXONOMY;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTERS; HISTORY; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; METAPHYSICS; PHILOSOPHY; SCIENCE; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 33646245424     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2005.08.007     Document Type: Article

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