Ontology - English meaning

Ontology – definitions in English dictionary

noun
The branch of metaphysics dealing with the nature of being.
Usage examples:
For such reasons as these heidegger believes that ontology and phenomenology coincide.
noun
A set of concepts and categories in a subject area or domain that shows their properties and the relations between them.
Usage examples:
What's new about our ontology is that it is created automatically from large datasets

noun
The part of philosophy that studies what it means to exist

Ontology translation into English

Ontology: translate from English into Chinese

本体论

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Ontologie

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Ontologie

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Ontologie

Ontology: translate from English into Hindi

आंटलजी, सत्तामीमांसा, सत्व शास्त्र

Ontology: translate from English into Italian

Ontologia

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존재론

Ontology: translate from English into Russian

Онтология

Ontology: translate from English into Spanish

Ontología

Word origin

early 18th century: from modern Latin ontologia, from Greek ōn, ont- ‘being’ + -logy.

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Ontology – similar words

ontologies

noun
The branch of metaphysics dealing with the nature of being.
Usage examples:
For such reasons as these heidegger believes that ontology and phenomenology coincide.

Ontologies - all meanings in English

ontologically

adverb
In a way that relates to ontology (= the study of what it means to exist)
Usage examples:
The pope has stated that priests are ontologically different from the rest of mankind., a distincti…

Ontologically - all meanings in English