10 Facts About Ontology

Ontology is closely associated with Aristotle's question of 'being qua being': the question of what all entities in the widest sense have in common.

Ontology holds that on the most fundamental level there exists only one thing: the world as a whole.

Ontology asserts that reality is made up of four levels: the inanimate, the biological, the psychological and the spiritual.

Ontology is increasingly seen as a separate domain of philosophy in the modern period.

Ontology refers to this substance as "God or Nature", emphasizing both his pantheism and his naturalism.

Ontology sees it as a part of metaphysics besides cosmology, psychology and natural theology.

Ontology is interested in being at large, not just in actual being.

Ontology's goal is to retrieve the original experience of being present in the early Greek thought that was covered up by later philosophers.

Ontology interprets ontology as Aristotle's science of being qua being: the science of the most general characteristics of entities, usually referred to as categories, and the relations between them.

Ontology suggested that, if the greatest possible being exists in the mind, it must exist in reality.