general & generality

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位置：ch2中 29 Classification of the Porphyrian sort is nothing unusual. We are dealing constantly with hierarchical relationships of greater and lesser generality, whether in library catalogs, in restaurant menus, in functional classifications of genes, or in the directory structure used by the operating systems of our computers.

31 A formal ontology is domain neutral. It contains just those most general terms—such as “object” and “process”—which apply in all scientific disciplines whatsoever. Thus it corresponds to the sort of ontological interest we identified above as predominating among philosophers. A material (or “domain”) ontology is domain specific. It contains terms—such as “cell,” or “carburetor”—which apply only in a subset of disciplines. 32 A formal ontology is a representation of the categories of entities and of the relationships within and between them. We here adapt Aristotle’s term “category” and use it to mean: domain-neutral universal. Categories are those universals whose instances are to be found in any domain of reality. Thus categories are also very general universals.

翻译：目前采纳翻译为“普遍”，；generality=“普遍性”

（也有的文章翻译为“一般”和“一般性”）

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参考： Term在逻辑学中翻译为“词项”：

• general term（普遍词项） 指一类事物或一个集合
• singular term（单个词项）. 独一无二的事物。

另外：generalization翻译为 “概括”

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