存在論 — meaning in English
sonzairon
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English meaning
- ontology noun The branch of metaphysics that addresses the nature or essential characteristics of being and of things that exist; the study of being qua being.
Senses
存在論 is used for these senses in English:
- 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.
ontology — full definition
- noun The branch of metaphysics that addresses the nature or essential characteristics of being and of things that exist; the study of being qua being.
- noun 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, and their interrelations; 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.
- noun The theory of a particular philosopher or school of thought concerning the fundamental types of entity in the universe.
- noun A logical system involving theory of classes, developed by Stanislaw Lesniewski (1886-1939).