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What (who) is ontology - definition

STUDY OF THE NATURE OF BEING, BECOMING, EXISTENCE OR REALITY, AS WELL AS THE BASIC CATEGORIES OF BEING AND THEIR RELATIONS (PHILOSOPHY)
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  • [[Parmenides]] was among the first to propose an ontological characterization of the fundamental nature of reality.

ontology         
Ontology is the branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of existence. (TECHNICAL)
N-UNCOUNT
ontological
...the ontological question of the relationship between mind and body.
ADJ: usu ADJ n
ontology         
[?n't?l?d?i]
¦ noun the branch of metaphysics concerned with the nature of being.
Derivatives
ontological adjective
ontologically adverb
ontologist noun
Origin
C18: from mod. L. ontologia, from Gk on, ont- 'being' + -logy.
Ontology         
·noun 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.

Wikipedia

Ontology

In metaphysics, ontology is the philosophical study of being, as well as related concepts such as existence, becoming, and reality.

Ontology addresses questions like how entities are grouped into categories and which of these entities exist on the most fundamental level. Ontologists often try to determine what the categories or highest kinds are and how they form a system of categories that encompasses the classification of all entities. Commonly proposed categories include substances, properties, relations, states of affairs, and events. These categories are characterized by fundamental ontological concepts, including particularity and universality, abstractness and concreteness, or possibility and necessity. Of special interest is the concept of ontological dependence, which determines whether the entities of a category exist on the most fundamental level. Disagreements within ontology are often about whether entities belonging to a certain category exist and, if so, how they are related to other entities.

When used as a countable noun, the words ontology and ontologies refer not to the science of being but to theories within the science of being. Ontological theories can be divided into various types according to their theoretical commitments. Monocategorical ontologies hold that there is only one basic category, but polycategorical ontologies rejected this view. Hierarchical ontologies assert that some entities exist on a more fundamental level and that other entities depend on them. Flat ontologies, on the other hand, deny such a privileged status to any entity.

Examples of use of ontology
1. Daytime soaps also come with their own bright ontology about life and relationships, with camera movements that relax us and close–ups that make us think we are getting a direct access to emotions, creating a kind of false engagement.
2. Meles wants to force a nation to abort its greatest hour of pregnancy with a new history, and he is spoiling for a fight with the peoples‘ striving to deliver this new history not knowing that by forcing the pregnancy what will be born will not be a historical ontology of hope, but a return to despair.