Ontology

reality by something outside it, which can be called "God". Ontological argument is an argument that is not based on inspection of the universe, but rather on rationality alone. This type of argument reasons from the study of being or existence (ontology).

we interact with it, perceive it, and understand it. In the Categories, Aristotle develops a logical system of classification for relating properties and substance to one another in a hierarchical manner. In order to do so, he develops a system of ontology that offers a quite different explanation from that presented by early philosophers, such as Plato in his Realm of Forms theory. Through his Physics, he further explains, drawing heavily on the Categories, how it is that the fundamental units of

To test the validity of the statement ‘All the arts are based on the presence of man, only photography derives an advantage from his absence.’ (Bazin 1967: 13), one has to first define what is meant by art. This commentary is going to examine this statement using three different definitions of art, Bazin’s, Tolstoy’s and Arnheim’s definitions. Andre Bazin believed realism lies at the heart of art, and that art is the process of reproducing reality. He believed that an artefact should ‘helps us

Metaphysics is a division of philosophy that is concerned with the fundamental nature of reality and being, which includes ontology, cosmology, and often epistemology. John Dewey was an American philosopher and psychologist, he believed our inquisitive nature is part of what makes us human. He is the author of “Why Study Philosophy”. Plato is one of the world's best known and most widely read and studied philosophers. He was the student of Socrates and the teacher of Aristotle, and he wrote in the

By the writing of The Phenomenology of Modern Art: Exploding Deleuze, Illuminating Style Crowther (2012, 104) gives an example of another fundamentally formative perceptual intertwining (tied to the evolution of the sense organs as much as to ontology) - that the visible world would never have been perceived without beings who could see, but without the possibility of visual stimuli no beings would have ever developed the capacity to see. Crowther argues that this closeness of ontological bonding

Can realism offer a plausible response to Bradley’s Regress? Abstract. Both Baxter (2001) and Armstrong (2004) have advanced moderate realist theories of partial identity in order to overcome a version of Bradley’s regress as it arises concerning relations between particulars and their properties. Such arguments, if successful, would also appear to strengthen the case for accepting realism over that of opposing accounts, such as nominalist trope theories . This paper is primarily concerned with Baxter’s

We live in a world where contemporary science has taken a powerful clench as the sole means of satisfying our hunger for knowledge of all things. But what exactly is science? To define something we most often have to state its boundaries, just like how you know the province of British Columbia by its borderlines. Furthermore, what happened to the philosophy of nature? What fundamental role does it play in our quest for knowledge? I will attempt to answer these questions by defining philosophy

element of the ontology of Being and Nothingness. For Sartre, the phenomenon of bad faith is present in most or even all human activities. Simply put, bad faith refers to our attempts to evade the fundamental truth of our nature, in terms of both facts and possibilities. Bad faith is generally characterized as a “refusal to recognize what I am”, namely, a being who is both facticity and transcendence. To understand the phenomenon of bad faith, a brief review of Sartre’s ontology is in order. For

The ontological argument is one of the most prominent arguments with in philosophy. Ontological comes from the Greek word “ontos” meaning “being” or “what there is”. Ontology credits the existence of God to overall essence of God. The ontology argument questions the nature of being which includes questioning the existence of God. As made apparent in “Introduction to Philosophy: Classical and Contemporary Readings” many philosophers have different views and theories on the existence of God. Anslem

Ontological Argument In Anselm's ontological argument he is trying to prove the existence of God, his argument is an argument purely based on the mind and does not require the moral agent to venture into the real of the senses. Ontology is to do with being, or what something is. Anselm's ontological argument concerns existence and whether it is an attribute of God in the same way omnipotence, omniscience and benevolence are believed to be. The argument is an a priori