<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/5416b9ef-b9a8-43d6-86eb-79880a262ee3/B80CD02B-94A3-4BAD-97B2-E78DB9B26330/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ontology&oldid=318822438" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ontology&oldid=318822438" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ontology&oldid=318822438"><B>Ontology</B> (from the <A title="Greek language" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language" bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED">Greek</A> <SPAN lang="grc" xml:lang="grc">ὄν</SPAN>, genitive <SPAN lang="grc" xml:lang="grc">ὄντος</SPAN>: <I>of being</I> (neuter participle of <SPAN lang="grc" xml:lang="grc">εἶναι</SPAN>: <I>to be</I>) and <A title="wiktionary:-λογία" class="extiw" href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-%CE%BB%CE%BF%CE%B3%CE%AF%CE%B1" bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED">-λογία</A>, <A title="wiktionary:-logia" class="extiw" href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-logia" bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED">-logia</A>: <I>science</I>, <I>study</I>, <I>theory</I>) is the <A title="Philosophy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy" bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED">philosophical</A> study of the nature of <A title="Being" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being" bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED">being</A>, <A title="Existence" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existence" bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED">existence</A> or <A title="Reality" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality" bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED">reality</A> in general, as well as of the basic <A title="Category of being" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_of_being" bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED">categories of being</A> and their relations. Traditionally listed as a part of the major branch of philosophy known as <A title="Metaphysics" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphysics" bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED">metaphysics</A>, ontology deals with questions concerning what <A class="mw-redirect" title="Entities" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entities" bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED">entities</A> exist or can be said to exist, and how such entities can be grouped, related within a <A title="Hierarchy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchy" bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED">hierarchy</A>, and subdivided according to similarities and differences.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B80CD02B-94A3-4BAD-97B2-E78DB9B26330/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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