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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the metaphysical study of the nature of being and existence
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In computer science and information science , an ontology is a formal naming and definition of the types, properties, and interrelationships of the entities that really or fundamentally exist for a particular domain of discourse . It is thus a practical ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable philosophy English) The branch of metaphysics that addresses the nature or essential characteristics of being and of things that exist; the study of being ''qua'' being. 2 (context countable philosophy English) The theory of a ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"metaphysical science or study of being," 1660s (Gideon Harvey), from Modern Latin ontologia (c.1600), from onto- + -logy .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ As sure as I have tusks, this is ontology on the hoof. ▪ But as we can see, he does not just blame Hegel here, for according to Levinas ontology itself is the problem. ▪ But Puddephat goes on about hermeneutics and ontology , ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ontology \On*tol"o*gy\, n. [Gr. ? the things which exist (pl.neut. of ?, ?, being, p. pr. of ? to be) + -logy: cf. F. ontologie.] That department of the science of metaphysics which investigates and explains the nature and essential properties and relations ...
Usage examples of ontology.
Deleuze and Guattari, however, seem to be able to conceive positively only the tendencies toward continuous movement and absolute flows, and thus in their thought, too, the creative elements and the radical ontology of the production of the social remain insubstantial and impotent.
Precisely by bringing together coherently the different defining characteristics of the biopolitical context that we have described up to this point, and leading them back to the ontology of production, we will be able to identify the new figure of the collective biopolitical body, which may nonetheless remain as contradictory as it is paradoxical.
Every ontology that does not bear the stamp of human creativity is cast aside.
When we say that political theory must deal with ontology, we mean first of all that politics cannot be constructed from the outside.
This metaphysical illusion disappears today, however, because in the context of biopolitical ontology and its becomings, the transcendent is what is unthinkable.
Are we thus simply making a nonsensical nihilist claim when we assert that in the ontology of Empire value is outside measure?
The ontology of the possible is in this sense the central terrain of analysis.
No ontology, except a transcendent one, can relegate humanity to individuality.
Generation, that first fact of metaphysics, ontology, and anthropology, is a collective mechanism or apparatus of desire.
The mythology of reason is the symbolic and imaginative articulation that allows the ontology of the multitude to express itself as activity and consciousness.
The genetic chain is formed and established in ontology, the scaffolding is continuously constructed and renewed by the new cooperative productivity, and thus we await only the maturation of the political development of the posse.
On the immanent relation between politics and ontology, see Antonio Negri, The Savage Anomaly, trans.
What modem thought is to throw fundamentally into question is the relation of meaning with the form of truth and the form of being: in the firmament of our reflection there reigns a discourse - a perhaps inaccessible discourse -which would at the same time be an ontology and a semantics.
But this ontology discloses not so much what gives beings their foundation as what bears them for an instant towards a precarious form and yet is already secretly sapping them from within in order to destroy them.
Other as an unsettling structure of ontology are presented in the context of an anti-empirical, existential psychoanalytic.