Ontic vs. Ontology

Ontic vs. Ontology — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Ontic and Ontology

Onticadjective

Ontological.

Ontologynoun

The branch of metaphysics that addresses the nature or essential characteristics of being and of things that exist; the study of being qua being.

Onticadjective

Pertaining to being generally, as opposed to some theory of it (which would be ontology).

Ontologynoun

In a subject view, or a world view, the set of conceptual or material things or classes of things that are recognised as existing, or are assumed to exist in context; in a body of theory, the ontology comprises the domain of discourse, the things that are defined as existing, together with whatever emerges from their mutual implications.

Ontologynoun

The theory of a particular philosopher or school of thought concerning the fundamental types of entity in the universe.

Ontologynoun

(logic) A logical system involving theory of classes, developed by Stanislaw Lesniewski (1886-1939).

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Ontologynoun

A structure of concepts or entities within a domain, organized by relationships; a system model.

Ontologynoun

the metaphysical study of the nature of being and existence