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Ontology

Ontology Meaning & Definition
Ontology Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Ontology?

[n] the metaphysical study of the nature of being and existence

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Related Terms | Find terms related to Ontology: aesthetics | axiology | casuistry | cosmology | epistemology | ethics | existentialism | first philosophy | gnosiology | logic | mental philosophy | metaphysics | moral philosophy | phenomenology | philosophastry | philosophic doctrine | philosophic system | philosophic theory | philosophical inquiry | philosophical speculation | school of philosophy | school of thought | science of being | sophistry | theory of beauty | theory of knowledge | value theory

See Also | metaphysics

Ontology In Webster's Dictionary

\On*tol"o*gy\, n. [Gr. ? the things which exist (pl.neut. of ?, ?, being, p. pr. of ? to be) + -logy: cf.F. ontologie.] That department of the science of metaphysics which investigates and explains the nature and essential properties and relations of all beings, as such, or the principles and causes of being.

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