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The study of what exists, before you argue about what it means.
means The branch of philosophy that asks what kinds of things actually exist, and what it means for something to 'be' at all.
from From Greek 'on' (being, the present participle of 'to be') plus '-logia' (study of). The word itself is a modern coinage, stitched together in 17th-century philosophical Latin as 'ontologia' before passing into English — scholars needed a term for the oldest question in the book and built one straight from the verb 'to be,' rather than inheriting it from antiquity.
- vs epistemology
- ontology asks what is, epistemology asks how you know
- tech hijack
- computer scientists stole it to mean category schemas
- oldest question
- why is there something rather than nothing
- origin
- from Greek on, meaning being itself