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ONTOLOGY (adapted from a See also: modern philosophy by the See also: term " ontology " in contrast to the broader " See also: metaphysics " and the correlative " See also: epistemology," goes back to such phrases as Evros 6vra, which See also: Plato uses to describe the absolute reality of ideas; Plato, however, uses the term "See also: dialectic " for this particular branch of metaphysics
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See also: Aristotle, likewise, holding that the See also: separate sciences have each their own subject See also: matter, postulates a See also: prior science of existence in general which he describes as " first philosophy." So far, therefore, the science of being is distinguished not from that of knowing but from that of the See also: special forms of being: as to the possibility of See also: objective reality there is no question
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A new distinction arises in the philosophy of See also: Wolff who first made " ontology " a technical term
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Theoretical philosophy (metaphysics) is by him divided into that which deals with being in general whether objective or subjective, as contrasted with the particular entities, the soul, the See also: world and See also: God
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The former is ontology
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This intermediate stage in the See also: evolution of the science of being gave place to the modern view that the first duty of the philosopher is to consider knowledge itself (see EPISTEMOLOGY), and that only in the See also: light of conclusion as to this See also: primary problem is it possible to consider
the nature, of being
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The evolution of metaphysics has thus relegated ontology to a secondary place
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On the other See also: hand it remains true that the science of knowing is inseparable from, and in a sense identical with that of being
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Epistemological conclusions cannot be expressed ultimately without the aid of ontological terms
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For the wider relations of ontology, see further PHILOSOPHY
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