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In philosophy, ontology is the study of being or existence. Sourced The genius of culture is to create an ontological system so compelling that what is inside and outside of a person are viewed as of a piece, no seams and patches noticable. Richard...


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Ontology, History Of Summary
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Ontology, History Of The term ontologia was coined by scholastic writers in the seventeenth century. Rudolf Goclenius, who mentioned the word in 1636, may have been the first user, but the term was such a natural Latin coinage and began to appear so...
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Ontology Summary
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ONTOLOGY. The word ontology, meaning "discourse about, or study of, being," was introduced into the philosophical vocabulary in the early seventeenth century. The term was originally used as an equivalent for "metaphysics,"...
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Time, Being, and Becoming Summary
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Time, Being, and Becoming The major debate in the philosophy of time, being, and becoming is between defenders of the tenseless theory of time and defenders of the tensed theory of time. During the late twentieth century into the early twenty-first...
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Art, Ontology Of Summary
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Art, Ontology Of Ontology is concerned with what exists. So one may think the ontology of art is concerned with whether artworks exist. However, most people take the existence of artworks for granted. (See Dilworth 2004 for someone who does not.) The...
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Ontology Information
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Ontology is a study of conceptions of reality and the nature of being. In philosophy, ontology (from the Greek nominative ὤν: being, genitive ὄντος: of being (participle of εἶναι: to be) and -λογία: science, study, theory) is the...
 


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KM World
Ontologies and abstractions
03/01/2007: 641 words, approx. 2 pages
Here's an odd question, sort of like asking, "What are the symptoms of hypochondria?" The more you think about it, the less it makes sense. So, take an ontology. It's not an easy term to define because there's honest disagreement about what it...
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Journalism History
The Ontology of Time
04/01/2005: 369 words, approx. 1 pages
Oaklander, L. Nathan. The Ontology of Time. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2004. 366 pp. $30. Just why this book by Nathan Oaklander, a philosopher, should have been sent to a journalism publication for review is puzzling. It is a scholarly and close look...
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Investor's Business Daily
After All This Interactivity, Look Out For Web 3.0 Leap
6/1/2007: 864 words, approx. 3 pages
Worldwide users are just getting familiar with the concept of Web 2.0, through which they can collaborate and share Internet content.Yet some technologists already are discussing the dawn of an era known as Web 3.0.Some experts think Web 3.0 may be the best way to...
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Pica, Vestigial Tails: Fave Icky Obsessions Bad for Finding Love
4/24/2005: 1,205 words, approx. 4 pages
Having excused myself from getting involved in all things humanly romantic for the last few years, I have woken up recently missing even its worst aspects. Without the benefit of a ready-made pool of possibilities, however (we aren't in graduate school anymore, I tell myself,...
 


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