ontology
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Noun — The area of philosophy that looks at what it means for something to exist.
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Etymology
A learned borrowing from New Latin ontologia (1606, Ogdoas Scholastica, by Jacob Lorhard (Lorhardus)), from Ancient Greek ὤν, ὄντος (ṓn, óntos, 'being'), the present participle of εἰμί (eimí, 'being, existing, essence'), combined with λόγος (lógos, 'account'). By surface analysis it is onto- + -logy. Its first known us...
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