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Ontology   /ɑntˈɑlədʒi/   Listen
Ontology

noun
1.
(computer science) a rigorous and exhaustive organization of some knowledge domain that is usually hierarchical and contains all the relevant entities and their relations.
2.
The metaphysical study of the nature of being and existence.





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"Ontology" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the other sutras the burden of thought is ontology. Doctrinally, Buddhism seems to be less a religion than a system of philosophy. Hundreds of volumes in the canon concern themselves almost wholly with ontological speculations. The Japanese mind,[3] as described ...
— The Religions of Japan - From the Dawn of History to the Era of Meiji • William Elliot Griffis
... savagery—the rishis of India were engaged in perhaps the highest self-propelled flights of religious speculation the world has ever known and were working out a philosophy, or more correctly a system of ontology, which is today the wonder and admiration ...
— India's Problem Krishna or Christ • John P. Jones


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