Assertion: ontology | /r/CapableOf | address essential characteristics
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text: As nouns the difference between ontology and teleology is that ontology is (uncountable|philosophy) the branch of metaphysics that addresses the nature or essential characteristics of being and of things that exist; the study of being qua being while teleology is (philosophy) the study of the purpose or design of natural occurrences.