Ontology is defined as the branch of metaphysics concerned with the nature relations of being or existence. It is the field of study concerned with the classification of entities.
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- Buffalo Ontology Site Information on ontology, on the history of ontology, and on contemporary ontology and its applications.
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: The Identity of Indiscernibles A principle of analytic ontology first explicitly formulated by Leibniz. It states that no two distinct substances exactly resemble each other.
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Tropes An article describing tropes; by John Bacon.
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Holes An interesting case-study for ontologists and epistemologists.
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Events Survey of philosophical views on the character and status of events; by Roberto Casati and Achille Varzi.
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Physicalism Discussion of the thesis that everything is physical; by Daniel Stoljar.
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Abstract Objects Survey of attempts to draw the distinction between concrete and abstract objects; by Gideon Rosen.
- Qualia: The Knowledge Argument Aims to establish that conscious experience involves non-physical properties. It is one of the most discussed arguments against physicalism; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by Martine Nida-RĂ¼melin.
- Why Does Anything Exist? Sequence of short essays on this topic.
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Existence Survey article by Barry Miller.
- Dualism and the Shift of Aspect in Language and Thought Examines the bearing of the shift of aspect in language and thought on mind/world dualism, and other intractable difficulties affecting the nature of relation, change, reality, meaning and knowledge.
- Theory and History of Ontology Resources on the development of ontology, especially in the twentieth century.
- What is Ontology? Collected definitions, from leading philosophical reference works and from philosophers from Wolff to Husserl.