A report on Ontology
Branch of philosophy that studies concepts such as existence, being, becoming, and reality.
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Metaphysics
26 linksBranch of philosophy that studies the fundamental nature of reality, the first principles of being, identity and change, space and time, causality, necessity, and possibility.
Branch of philosophy that studies the fundamental nature of reality, the first principles of being, identity and change, space and time, causality, necessity, and possibility.
Historically, it formed a major part of the subject alongside ontology, though its role is more peripheral in contemporary philosophy.
Existence
10 linksAbility of an entity to interact with reality.
Ability of an entity to interact with reality.
In philosophy, it refers to the ontological property of being.
Reality
10 linksSum or aggregate of all that is real or existent within a system, as opposed to that which is only imaginary.
Sum or aggregate of all that is real or existent within a system, as opposed to that which is only imaginary.
Philosophical questions about the nature of reality or existence or being are considered under the rubric of ontology, which is a major branch of metaphysics in the Western philosophical tradition.
Being
7 linksMaterial or immaterial existence of a thing.
Material or immaterial existence of a thing.
Ontology is the branch of philosophy that studies being.
Philosophy
17 linksSystematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language.
Systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language.
Metaphysics includes cosmology, the study of the world in its entirety and ontology, the study of being, along with the philosophy of space and time.
Plato
14 linksGreek philosopher born in Athens during the Classical period in Ancient Greece.
Greek philosopher born in Athens during the Classical period in Ancient Greece.
John Palmer notes "Parmenides' distinction among the principal modes of being and his derivation of the attributes that must belong to what must be, simply as such, qualify him to be seen as the founder of metaphysics or ontology as a domain of inquiry distinct from theology."
Idealism
7 linksIndistinguishable and inseparable from human perception and understanding; that reality is a mental construct closely connected to ideas.
Indistinguishable and inseparable from human perception and understanding; that reality is a mental construct closely connected to ideas.
Ontologically, idealism asserts that the existence of things depends upon the human mind; thus ontological idealism rejects the perspectives of physicalism and dualism, because each perspective does not give ontological priority to the human mind.
Willard Van Orman Quine
7 linksAmerican philosopher and logician in the analytic tradition, recognized as "one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century".
American philosopher and logician in the analytic tradition, recognized as "one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century".
His major writings include the papers "On What There Is" (1948), which elucidated Bertrand Russell's theory of descriptions and contains Quine's famous dictum of ontological commitment, "To be is to be the value of a variable", and "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" (1951), which attacked the traditional analytic-synthetic distinction and reductionism, undermining the then-popular logical positivism, advocating instead a form of semantic holism.
Mind–body dualism
7 linksIn the philosophy of mind, mind–body dualism denotes either the view that mental phenomena are non-physical, or that the mind and body are distinct and separable.
In the philosophy of mind, mind–body dualism denotes either the view that mental phenomena are non-physical, or that the mind and body are distinct and separable.
Ontological dualism makes dual commitments about the nature of existence as it relates to mind and matter, and can be divided into three different types:
Parmenides
7 linksPre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Elea in Magna Graecia.
Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Elea in Magna Graecia.
Parmenides has been considered the founder of ontology or metaphysics and has influenced the whole history of Western philosophy.