ontology (Q44325)

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study of the nature of being, becoming, existence or reality, as well as the basic categories of being and their relations (philosophy)
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ontology
study of the nature of being, becoming, existence or reality, as well as the basic categories of being and their relations (philosophy)

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    ontologie (filozofie)
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    The branch of metaphysics concerned with the nature and relations of being. (English)
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    ontology
    Peter M. Simons
    ontology, the philosophical study of being in general, or of what applies neutrally to everything that is real. (English) (English)
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    Following Quine, ontology is here understood as the study of what there is. (Re: neo-Aristotelian ontology, the study of what grounds what, see the "Fundamentality" category.) Our focus is on the existence of the most generic things that populate many philosophers' ontologies, e.g., objects, properties, natural kinds, states-of-affairs, events, etc. (English)
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    Ontology
    The study of the essential characteristics of Being in itself apart from the study of particular existing things. (English)
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    06172563-n
    ontology the metaphysical study of the nature of being and existence (English)
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