Ontology quotes
Ontology is the branch of philosophy that studies concepts such as existence, being, becoming, and reality. It is sometimes referred to as the science of being and belongs to the major branch of philosophy known as metaphysics. ~ WikiQuote
Our acceptance of an ontology is, I think, similar in principle to our acceptance of a scientific theory, say a system of physics;we adopt, at least insofar as we are reasonable, the simplest conceptual scheme into which the disordered fragments of raw experience can be fitted and arranged. ~ Willard Van Orman Quine
'What is there?’ It can be answered, moreover, in a word — ‘Everything’ — and everyone will accept this answer as true. ~ Willard Van Orman Quine
I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being. ~ Madeleine L'Engle
Nothing that is so is so. ~William Shakespeare
In every phenomenon, the beginning remains hidden, and the origin comes to light only to the extent that the phenomenon, revealing itself, withdraws. ~ Martin Heidegger
ABCs of ontology
A: Approach to perceiving, knowing, analysing and interpreting the physical world and the world of knowledge as they exist and their classification mainly terms of realism, humanism, empiricism, positivism and post-modernism.
B: Branch of metaphysics that deals with the nature of 'being' or 'existence' of a thing or study area in terms of its independent or intrinsic attributes and interdependent entities or extrinsic attributes
C: Concepts and categories in a subject area, discipline, specific knowledge area or domain that shows its intrinsic properties and the relations or association between them
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