Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɒnˈtɒləd͡ʒi/
ontology
- (uncountable, philosophy) The branch of metaphysics that addresses the nature or essential characteristics of being and of things that exist; the study of being qua being.
- (uncountable, philosophy) In a subject view, or a world view, the set of conceptual or material things or classes of things that are recognised as existing, or are assumed to exist in context; in a body of theory, the ontology comprises the domain of discourse, the things that are defined as existing, together with whatever emerges from their mutual implications.
- (countable, philosophy) The theory of a particular philosopher or school of thought concerning the fundamental types of entity in the universe.
- 2000, C. D. C. Reeve, Substantial Knowledge: Aristotle's Metaphysics, Hackett Publishing, p. 97:
- The answer to the controversial question of whether Aristotle's ontology includes non-substantial particulars, then, is that it does.
- 2000, C. D. C. Reeve, Substantial Knowledge: Aristotle's Metaphysics, Hackett Publishing, p. 97:
- (logic) A logical system involving theory of classes, developed by Stanislaw Lesniewski (1886-1939).
- (computer science, information science) A structure of concepts or entities within a domain, organized by relationships; a system model.
- French: ontologie
- German: Ontologie
- Italian: ontologia
- Portuguese: ontologia
- Russian: онтоло́гия
- Spanish: ontología
- French: ontologie
- German: Ontologie
- Italian: ontologia
- Portuguese: ontologia
- Russian: онтоло́гия
- Spanish: ontología
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