“The term ‘formal ontology’ has been given two different interpretations. The first of these, entirely in keeping with the mainstream of contemporary philosophy, has been what I shall call analytic: […]
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Ontology, in Ingarden’s sense, analyses the necessary structures of possible objects
“Ontology, in Ingarden’s sense, analyses the necessary structures of possible objects: it seeks to establish alternative possible structures of the world, where metaphysics would establish which of these alternatives is […]
material ontology
Characterizing material ontology is a more complicated matter, because the term can be interpreted in either of two ways. In the genetic interpretation it relates to the field of perception […]