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ontology

study of the nature of being, becoming, existence or reality, as well as the basic categories of being and their relations (philosophy)
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ontology

Summary

ontology is a field of study[1]. ontology ranks in the top 0.53% of field_of_study entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,496 views/month, #2 of 379).[2]

Key Facts

  • ontology's instance of is recorded as field of study[3].
  • ontology's instance of is recorded as academic discipline[4].
  • ontology is part of metaphysics[5].
  • ontology is part of philosophy[6].
  • ontology's Commons category is recorded as Ontology[7].
  • ontology's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Ontology[8].
  • ontology's described by source is recorded as New Encyclopedic Dictionary[9].
  • ontology's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[10].
  • ontology's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[11].
  • ontology's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 3[12].
  • ontology's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/tags/ontology[13].
  • ontology's different from is recorded as ontology[14].
  • ontology's different from is recorded as ontology[15].
  • ontology's different from is recorded as anthology[16].
  • ontology's is the study of is recorded as reality[17].
  • ontology's is the study of is recorded as existence[18].
  • ontology's is the study of is recorded as becoming[19].
  • ontology's is the study of is recorded as being[20].
  • ontology's practiced by is recorded as ontologist[21].
  • ontology's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[22].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include field of study[3] and academic discipline[4].

Use and Application

Part of include metaphysics[5], a branch of philosophy[23] and philosophy[6], an academic discipline[24].

Why It Matters

ontology ranks in the top 0.53% of field_of_study entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,496 views/month, #2 of 379).[2] ontology has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] ontology is known by 47 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

Related Entities

Alain Badiou Bernardo Kastrup Gilles Deleuze Hans-Georg Gadamer Jean-Paul Sartre Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz Martin Buber metaphysics Michel Onfray Nikolai Berdyaev philosophy Slavoj Žižek Willard Van Orman Quine

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . UNESCO Thesaurus. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . PhilPapers. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [23] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 10d ago · MarisDreshmanisBot bot · 2026-05-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Described by source → New Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition +1
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) → 2689885
    Aliases → —
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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