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ontology|ɒnˈtɒlədʒɪ|
[ad. mod.L. ontologia (Jean le Clerc 1692), f. Gr. ὀντο-, onto- + -λογία: see -logy. Cf. F. ontologie, 1751 in Hatz.-Darm.]
The science or study of being; that department of metaphysics which relates to the being or essence of things, or to being in the abstract.
1721Bailey, Ontology, an Account of being in the Abstract. 1724Watts Logic i. vi. §9 In order to make due enquiries into all these, and many other particulars which go towards the complete and comprehensive idea of any being, the science of ontology is exceeding necessary. This is what was wont to be called the first part of metaphysics in the peripatetic schools. 1733― (title) A Brief Scheme of Ontology or the Science of Being in General. 1776Adam Smith W.N. (1869) II. v. i. 355 Subtleties and sophisms..composed the whole of this cobweb science of ontology, which was likewise sometimes called metaphysics. a1832Bentham Fragm. Ontol. Wks. 1843 VIII. 195 The field of ontology, or as it may otherwise be termed, the field of supremely abstract entities, is a yet untrodden labyrinth. 1865Reader 8 July 30 We cordially approve and admire,..not least, the signal demolition of Ontology, in the form of the noumenon, or unknowable substratum of matter and mind. 1884Bosanquet tr. Lotze's Metaph. 22 Ontology..as a doctrine of the being and relations of all reality, had precedence given to it over Cosmology and Psychology, the two branches of enquiry which follow the reality into its opposite distinctive forms. |