词汇表

lingua franca: a language systematically used to communicate between persons not sharing a mother tongue
ontology: the philosophical study of the nature of being, existence or reality in general, as well as of the basic categories of being and their relations
epistemology: the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature and scope (limitations) of knowledge
paradigm: a philosophical and theoretical framework of a scientific school or discipline within which theories, laws, and generalizations and the experiments performed in support of them are formulated