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In philosophy, ontology (from the Greek ὄν, genitive ὄντος: being (part. of εἶναι: to be) and -λογία: writing about, study of) is the most fundamental branch of metaphysics. It studi ...

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• Ontology - Some basic questions
• Ontology - Concepts
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• Ontology - Subject relationship object
• Ontology - Body and environment
• Ontology - Being
• Ontology - Social Science
• Ontology - Prominent ontologists

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Psychical is the antonym of physical. It is an attribute of anything that exists outside of the physical boundries. There are philosophies who argue that 'psychical' is a propriety of an entity that could not be quantified with measurements. Psychical objects exist in the mind in form of psychical entities, according to philosophies tending to explain metaphysics, as opposed to physical objects ...

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Ontology has one basic question: "What are the fundamental categories of being?" Different philosophers make different lists of such fundamental categories of being. This highlights one of the problems of the philosophical approach—it relies on continued investigation of categories, and has no clear way to stop asking. In theology, library science and artificial intelligence, in contrast, one typically adopts a relatively stable foundation ontology. This avoids some problems with the philosophical approach which has a larger base of ...

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Ontology, Ontology - Some basic questions, Ontology - Concepts, Ontology - Early history of ontology, Ontology - Subject relationship object, Ontology - Body and environment, Ontology - Being, Ontology - Social Science, Ontology - Prominent ontologists

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"What exists", "What is", "What am I", "What is describing this to me", all exemplify questions about being, and highlight the most basic problems in ontology: finding a subject, a relationship, and an object to talk about. During the Enlightenment the view of René Descartes that "cogito ergo sum" ("I think therefore I am") had generally prevailed, although Descartes himself did not believe the question worthy of any deep investigation. However, Descartes was very religious in his philosophy, and indeed argued that "cogito ergo sum" proved ...

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Ontology, Ontology - Some basic questions, Ontology - Concepts, Ontology - Early history of ontology, Ontology - Subject, relationship, object, Ontology - Body and environment, Ontology - Being, Ontology - Social Science, Ontology - Prominent ontologists

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Schools of subjectivism, objectivism and relativism existed at various times in the 20th century, and the postmodernists and body philosophers tried to reframe all these questions in terms of bodies taking some specific action in an environment. This relied to a great degree on insights derived from scientific research into animals taking instinctive action in natural and artificial settings — as st ...

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Ontology, Ontology - Some basic questions, Ontology - Concepts, Ontology - Early history of ontology, Ontology - Subject relationship object, Ontology - Body and environment, Ontology - Being, Ontology - Social Science, Ontology - Prominent ontologists

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The concept of ontology is generally thought to have originated in early Greece and occupied Plato and Aristotle. Since the word is of Greek origin its current meaning and application are certainly sourced from Greek culture. Aristotle described ontology as "the science of being qua being". The word 'qua' means 'in the capacity of'. According to this theory, then, ontology is the science of being inasmuch as it is being, or the study of beings insofar as they exist. Take anything you can find in the world, and look at it ...

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Ontology, Ontology - Some basic questions, Ontology - Concepts, Ontology - Early history of ontology, Ontology - Subject relationship object, Ontology - Body and environment, Ontology - Being, Ontology - Social Science, Ontology - Prominent ontologists

Read more here: » Ontology: Encyclopedia II - Ontology - Early history of ontology

"What exists", "What is", "What am I", "What is describing this to me", all exemplify questions about being, and highlight the most basic problems in ontology: finding a subject, a relationship, and an object to talk about. During the Enlightenment the view of René Descartes that "cogito ergo sum" ("I think therefore I am") had generally prevailed, although Descartes himself did not believe the question worthy of any deep investigation. However, Descartes was very religious in his philosophy, and indeed argued that "cogito ergo sum" proved ...

See also:

Ontology, Ontology - Some basic questions, Ontology - Concepts, Ontology - Early history of ontology, Ontology - Subject relationship object, Ontology - Body and environment, Ontology - Being, Ontology - Social Science, Ontology - Prominent ontologists

Read more here: » Ontology: Encyclopedia II - Ontology - Subject relationship object