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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Tambassi, Timothy

Titel

Drawing Boundaries

Ist Teil von

• The Philosophy of GIS, 2019, p.137-158

Ort / Verlag

Switzerland: Springer International Publishing AG

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In “On Drawing Lines on a Maps” by Smith (Spatial information theory. A theoretical basis for GIS, Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg/New York, 1995), I suggested that the different ways we have of drawing lines on Maps open up a new perspective on ontology, resting on a distinction between two sorts of boundaries: Boundariesfiat and bona fide. “Boundariesfiat” means, roughly: human-demarcation-induced. “Bona fide” means, again roughly: a boundary constituted by some real physical discontinuity. I presented a general typology of boundaries based on this opposition and showed how it generates a corresponding typology of the different sorts of objects which boundaries determine or demarcate. In this paper, I describe how the theory of Boundariesfiat boundaries has evolved since 1995, how it has been applied in Areas such as Properties law and political Geographypolitical, and how it is being used in contemporary work in formal and applied Ontologyapplied, especially within the framework of Basic Formal Ontologyformal.