Assertion: ontology | /r/HasProperty | metaphysic
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text: ONTOLOGY (ontosophy, metaphysics, cf. 1, universal metaphysics, architectonic, first philosophy) is the science of the general predicates of a thing.
text: Sam is wrong; Brian is right: ontology is metaphysics.
text: Ontology can be metaphysical and is considered the first branch of metaphysical philosophy.
text: Ontology, introduction Definition according to Webster's Dictionary: a branch of metaphysics relating to the nature and relations of being a particular theory about the nature of being or the kinds of existence Ontology (the "science of being") is a word, like metaphysics, that is used in many different senses.