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Ontology
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What's The Definition Of Ontology?
[n] the metaphysical study of the nature of being and existence
Synonyms | Synonyms for Ontology: 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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