Ontology

we interact with it, perceive it, and understand it. In the Categories, Aristotle develops a logical system of classification for relating properties and substance to one another in a hierarchical manner. In order to do so, he develops a system of ontology that offers a quite different explanation from that presented by early philosophers, such as Plato in his Realm of Forms theory. Through his Physics, he further explains, drawing heavily on the Categories, how it is that the fundamental units of

reality by something outside it, which can be called "God". Ontological argument is an argument that is not based on inspection of the universe, but rather on rationality alone. This type of argument reasons from the study of being or existence (ontology).

To test the validity of the statement ‘All the arts are based on the presence of man, only photography derives an advantage from his absence.’ (Bazin 1967: 13), one has to first define what is meant by art. This commentary is going to examine this statement using three different definitions of art, Bazin’s, Tolstoy’s and Arnheim’s definitions. Andre Bazin believed realism lies at the heart of art, and that art is the process of reproducing reality. He believed that an artefact should ‘helps us

Metaphysics is a division of philosophy that is concerned with the fundamental nature of reality and being, which includes ontology, cosmology, and often epistemology. John Dewey was an American philosopher and psychologist, he believed our inquisitive nature is part of what makes us human. He is the author of “Why Study Philosophy”. Plato is one of the world's best known and most widely read and studied philosophers. He was the student of Socrates and the teacher of Aristotle, and he wrote in the

By the writing of The Phenomenology of Modern Art: Exploding Deleuze, Illuminating Style Crowther (2012, 104) gives an example of another fundamentally formative perceptual intertwining (tied to the evolution of the sense organs as much as to ontology) - that the visible world would never have been perceived without beings who could see, but without the possibility of visual stimuli no beings would have ever developed the capacity to see. Crowther argues that this closeness of ontological bonding

It is important to note that the ontological argument for the existence of God indicates a priori argument- independent of knowledge- and a deductive argument, whereby logic precedes the notion of evidence or experience. Furthermore, an analytic proposition was used by Anselm to indicate that ‘God exists’- a statement to be true by definition –where the concept of God includes the concept of existence. Dissimilarly, a synthetic proposition adds to our comprehension- in this case we require experience

Can realism offer a plausible response to Bradley’s Regress? Abstract. Both Baxter (2001) and Armstrong (2004) have advanced moderate realist theories of partial identity in order to overcome a version of Bradley’s regress as it arises concerning relations between particulars and their properties. Such arguments, if successful, would also appear to strengthen the case for accepting realism over that of opposing accounts, such as nominalist trope theories . This paper is primarily concerned with Baxter’s

Heidegger proposes the definition of metaphysics as dasein. He believes that metaphysics consists of the origins of being and the origins of reality; essentially, beyond the physical. He strongly believes that being only occurs in terms of time. Therefore, he proposes that as humans, we must live in the immediacy of the present moment. To further elaborate on the challenges that Heidegger proposes, is to understand his view on being. He begins by challenging Cartesian thinking. Cartesian philosophy

element of the ontology of Being and Nothingness. For Sartre, the phenomenon of bad faith is present in most or even all human activities. Simply put, bad faith refers to our attempts to evade the fundamental truth of our nature, in terms of both facts and possibilities. Bad faith is generally characterized as a “refusal to recognize what I am”, namely, a being who is both facticity and transcendence. To understand the phenomenon of bad faith, a brief review of Sartre’s ontology is in order. For

The ontological argument is one of the most prominent arguments with in philosophy. Ontological comes from the Greek word “ontos” meaning “being” or “what there is”. Ontology credits the existence of God to overall essence of God. The ontology argument questions the nature of being which includes questioning the existence of God. As made apparent in “Introduction to Philosophy: Classical and Contemporary Readings” many philosophers have different views and theories on the existence of God. Anslem