?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Formal+Ontology%2C+Common+Sense%2C+and+Cognitive+Science&rft.creator=Smith%2C+B.&rft.subject=Artificial+Intelligence&rft.subject=Metaphysics&rft.description=Common+sense+is+on+the+one+hand+a+certain+set+of+processes+of+natural+cognition+-+of+speaking%2C+reasoning%2C+seeing%2C+and+so+on.+On+the+other+hand+common+sense+is+a+system+of+beliefs+(of+folk+physics%2C+folk+psychology+and+so+on).+Over+against+both+of+these+is+the+world+of+common+sense%2C+the+world+of+objects+to+which+the+processes+of+natural+cognition+and+the+corresponding+belief-contents+standardly+relate.+What+are+the+structures+of+this+world%3F+How+does+the+scientific+treatment+of+this+world+relate+to+traditional+and+contemporary+metaphysics+and+formal+ontology%3F+Can+we+embrace+a+thesis+of+common-sense+realism+to+the+effect+that+the+world+of+common+sense+exists+uniquely%3F+Or+must+we+adopt+instead+a+position+of+cultural+relativism+which+would+assign+distinct+worlds+of+common+sense+to+each+group+and+epoch%3F+The+present+paper+draws+on+recent+work+in+computer+science+(especially+in+the+fields+of+naive+and+qualitative+physics)%2C+in+perceptual+and+developmental+psychology%2C+and+in+cognitive+anthropology%2C+in+order+to+consider+in+a+new+light+these+and+related+questions+and+to+draw+conclusions+for+the+methodology+and+philosophical+foundations+of+the+cognitive+sciences.&rft.date=1995&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F309%2F1%2Fformal_20ontology.html&rft.identifier=++Smith%2C+B.++(1995)+Formal+Ontology%2C+Common+Sense%2C+and+Cognitive+Science.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F309%2F