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Ontology: The Study of Being
A topic hub for ontology: the study of what exists and the categories of being, from Aristotle's categories to contemporary debates about abstract objects, possible worlds, and mereology.
A topic hub for ontology — the study of what exists and its categories, from substance and being to the formal ontology of the analytic tradition.
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