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Being (other)
Being is an extremely broad concept encompassing objective and subjective features of reality and existence. Being may also refer to: Grammar and linguistics * Being, the present participle and gerund form of the English verb to be Science and Philosophy * Being in itself, a term from 20th-century philosophy * Category of being, the metaphysical classification of all beings * Ego (religion), spiritual or religious "beingness" * Great chain of being, the rationalist classification of all beings * Human being * Human beings in Buddhism * Reference failure, a concept of Bertrand Russell involving fictional beings * Sentient beings (Buddhism), a type of being * Supreme Being (other), the highest in the hierarchy of beings * Digital being, an artificially intelligent machine Arts, entertainment, and media * '' Being and Nothingness'', a 1943 essay on phenomenological ontology by Jean-Paul Sartre * '' Being and Time'', a 1927 book by Martin Heidegger * ''Being'' (alb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Being
In metaphysics, ontology is the philosophical study of being, as well as related concepts such as existence, becoming, and reality. Ontology addresses questions like how entities are grouped into categories and which of these entities exist on the most fundamental level. Ontologists often try to determine what the categories or highest kinds are and how they form a system of categories that encompasses classification of all entities. Commonly proposed categories include substances, properties, relations, states of affairs and events. These categories are characterized by fundamental ontological concepts, including particularity and universality, abstractness and concreteness, or possibility and necessity. Of special interest is the concept of ontological dependence, which determines whether the entities of a category exist on the most fundamental level. Disagreements within ontology are often about whether entities belonging to a certain category exist and, if so, how they ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
