Ontological distinctions between hardware and software

Applied ontology 12 (1):5-32 (2017)
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There are a wide range of positions regarding the ontological nature of computer hardware and software. Moor [The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 29 (1978), 213–222] argues that there...

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