ontology

But on the relative plane, Zen is this-worldly and does not deny ethics, or ontology for that matter.

Materialism is for him a variety of ontology, involving the assumption that we know the essence of matter.

It is also distinguished from ontology, which investigates real existence or the theory of being.

Plato, therefore, took this vast stride of thought, and identified the ultimate notions of ethics and ontology.

It has only secondary forms of suggestion and support—the precarious evidence from special theorizing in ontology and metaphysics.

Ontology, now, is certainly not a fit subject for the consideration of the female mind.