Ontology

From BillionQuotes

Ontology, a part of philosophy which interest is existence.

• "The genius of culture is to create an ontological system so compelling that what is inside and outside of a person are viewed as of a piece, no seams and patches noticable."
  • Richard Shweder, "Cultural psyschology-What is it?" Cultural Psychology (1990)

• "Ontology recapitulates philology."
  • attributed by W.V. Quine to James Grier Miller in "Word and Object", p.viii (1960)

---

---