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Definition:That department of the science of metaphysics which investigates and explains the nature and essential properties and relations of all beings, as such, or the principles and causes of being.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)---a subphilosophical academic discipline. It is the philosophical study of the nature of being, becoming, existence and/or reality, as well as the basic categories of being and their relations. [it] often deals with questions concerning what entities exist or may be said to exist and how such entities may be grouped, related within a hierarchy, and subdivided according to similarities and differences.text from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
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Did Adam and Eve produce daughters? These were the great, complex questions of ontology that tormented him.
Joseph Heller. Catch-22, p.268 (1961)
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The shapes, while they resemble those of crystals and snowflakes, are ontologically meaningless; and the “reconjungation ” and “redissolusingnesses”, however complex, offer no nutriment to the intellect. They are fortuitous rather than dramatic actions;
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