CRUP-OMAF Case Studies

CRUP Ontological Model Assessment Framework (OMAF)

Overview

The CRUP-OMAF is a universal, domain-neutral method for evaluating any ontology: 'account of being' across four key dimensions:

1. Completeness — Does the ontology fully account for the domain? (What, How, Why, Boundaries)
2. Robustness — Is it internally sound, generalizable, and resilient to critique?
3. Pragmatic Usefulness — Can it guide real-world inquiry or application?
4. Transformative Potential — Can it reshape understanding or relation to the domain?

CRUP-OMAF is designed to work for any domain, from abstract metaphysics (e.g., existence itself) to applied ontologies (e.g., love, knowledge, technology).

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CORPUS

• Zoroastrianism (Existence, Morality, Cosmic Order)
• Jainism (Existence, Reality, Consciousness)
• Early Buddhism (Existence, Reality, Soteriology)
• Confucianism/Ruism
• Heraclitus (Existence, Change, Reality)
• Daoism (Existence, Reality, Natural Order)
• Parmenides (Existence, Reality, Being)
• Plato (Existence, Reality, Knowledge)
• Aristotle (Existence, Substance, Change)
• Classical theism (Existence, Divine Being, Creation, and Purpose)
• Plotinus (Existence, Reality, The Divine)
• Samkhya (Existence, Consciousness, Material Reality)
• Advaita Vedanta (Existence, Consciousness, Reality)
• Avicenna (Existence, Being, and Reality)
• Theistic Vedanta
• Thomas Aquinas (Existence, Being, Metaphysics)
• John Duns Scotus (Existence, Being, and Individuation)
• Rene Descartes (Existence, Mind, Reality)
• Baruch Spinoza (Existence, God/Nature, Metaphysics)
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (Existence, Substance, Metaphysics)
• Immanuel Kant (Existence, Knowledge, Reality)
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (Existence, History, Consciousness, Spirit)
• Friedrich Nietzsche
• Edmund Husserl (Consciousness & Experience)
• Martin Heidegger (Existence, Being, Human Experience)
• Alfred North Whitehead (Existence, Reality, Becoming)
• Hartman/Carnap
• Jean Paul Sartre (Human Freedom & Existence)
• Willard Van Orman Quine (Knowledge, Language, and Reality)
• David Lewis (Existence, Modality, Possible Worlds)
• Alain Badiou (Existence, Being, Truth)
• John Searle (Consciousness, Mind, Social Reality)
• Nicola Guarino
• Graham Harman (Existence, Objects, Relations)
• Bittner Smith
• John Mackay (Existence)

POST

• OMAF Hybrid Rubric — Full scoring rubric with anchors for all criteria
• OMAF Case Study Template
• Conference of Difference Case Study Example