Concept
Ontology
Overview
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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Philosophers who discussed Ontology
- Tadeusz Kotarbiński
- Tom Regan
- Udayana
- Nelson Goodman
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Gilles Deleuze
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Je Tsongkhapa
- Heraclitus
- Hans-Georg Gadamer
- Bas van Fraassen
- Mircea Eliade
- Isaiah Berlin
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Constantin Noica
- Victor Cousin
- Dugald Stewart
- Leucippus
- David Ray Griffin
- Hermann Lotze
- Johann Friedrich Herbart
- Eric Voegelin
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- Boethius
Related ideas
- Category (Kant)
- Moral nihilism
- Belief
- Formal language
- First-order logic
- Elementary particle
- Avicenna
- Ancient philosophy
- George Berkeley
- Quality (philosophy)
- Xuanxue
- Genetics
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Li (neo-Confucianism)
- Philosophy
- Animism
- Yin and yang
- Integer
- Immanuel Kant
- Ancient Greek
- Atheism
- Speculative realism
- Intuition
Opposing perspectives
- Modal realism
- Functionalism (philosophy of mind)
- Emanationism
- Philosophy
- Paradigm
- Metaphysics
- Mind
- Matter
- Number
- Haruki Murakami
- Modal logic
- Causality
- Value (ethics)
- Entity
- Logic
- God
- Astronomy
- Theory of categories
- Possible world
- Existence
- Extraterrestrial life
- Scientific realism
- Unobservable
- Naturalism (philosophy)
Place in the tradition
Part of Outline of philosophy.
Narrower topics:
- Journey to the West
- Kathmandu
- New Delhi
- Nicolai Hartmann
- Quality (philosophy)
- Quantity
- The Lord of the Rings
- Computability
- Endurantism
- Univocity of being
- Condition of possibility
- Doha
- Counterpart theory
- Cyc
- Object-oriented ontology
- Loch Ness Monster
- One Ring
- Sun Wukong
- Eidetic reduction
- Gene Ontology
- History of ontology
- Temporal parts
- Ontology engineering