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Treatise on Basic Philosophy: Volume 3: Ontology I: The Furniture of the World

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What kinds of things exist? What do you need to know about an object in order to differentiate it from any other object that exists? Ten years ago, these were academic questions. With the advent of terabyte databases searchable from the web, these questions have suddenly become very practical. Bunge seems to have been aware of the new importance of ontology before anybody else. This book is precise and perfect. I dare say that the mathematical notation will drive away most philosophers and all casual readers, but that the same notation will appeal strongly to logicians and computer scientists. I only wish that there were more copies in print.

Mario Bunge needed an Ontology for his Phylosophic System, that were realistic, sistemyc and up-to-date with science, but there was no single one that gathered all his requirements. So he draw his own one.
Bunges's Ontology, both the general and the particular (for physics, chemistry, biology, psychology, social and artifacts) is also precise; that means that you can always know what is he talking about and check it with scientific evidence in order to contrast or refute.
Unlike imprecise, obscure and incoherent metaphysics, Bunge's one contributes to science and technology providing a frame for good reasoning, for sinthesize theories and lastly for expand, modify or even destroy the ontology itself.
Despite of having being writed about thirty years old, this fundamental ontology continues inspiring technical ontologies and scientific approaches across several research fields.
It should be read by every student, teacher, and researcher, at least because they would not find another one of it scope, deep and clarity.