It is not much better with the ontology of Wolff; it is laid out like a philosophical dictionary.
Ontology treats of what are now called categories, or those fundamental conceptions which are applied to every object, and must therefore at the outset be investigated.
The consequence is that in philology we possess the same kind of unconscious record of the growth and decay of ideas, as is furnished by palæontology of the growth and decay of species.
Hitherto we have been engaged for the most part on what I have already called the palæontology of human thought as revealed, fossil-like, in the linguistic petrifactions of pre-historic man.
The palæontology of human thought, then, as recorded in language, incontestibly proves that the origin and progress of ideation in the race was psychologically identical with what we now observe in the individual.
Rockhill's Life of Buddha will be found the weird and silly legends of Northern Buddhism, together with a full sketch of Buddhistic ethics and ontology (Hardy, pp.
Footnote 39: Of the many manuals we recommend especially those of Rhys Davids for ontology (also J[=a]takis.
Of the hymns in the eighth book the second appears to be a later imitation of the first, and the first appears, from several indications, to be of comparatively recent origin.
The passivity of the two gods makes them yield in importance to their son, the active Savitar, who goes between the two parents.
He has a thousand remedies for ills; to his realm not even the birds can ascend, nor wind or swift waters attain.
It is true that each of these traits may be found in certain parts of the Rig Veda, but it is not true that they represent there the spirit of the age, as they do in the Brahmanic period.
But enough has been said to demonstrate the interdependence of ontology and cosmology, of the theory of being and the theory of differentiation and process.
Ontology defined 460:3 Ontology is defined as "the science of the necessary constituents and relations of all beings," and it under- lies all metaphysical practice.
Ontology and physics, radically distinct points of view, i.
Plato's in part an eclectic doctrine, 366; blends ontologywith ethics, ib.
Those who have attended to the progress of palæontology are aware that evidence of the character which I have defined has been produced in considerable and continually-increasing quantity during the last few years.
Like an old amour, my love of palA|ontology and anatomy, and all the high hopes I entertained of them, came smarting to life again, so I turned over the page quickly.
He thought it likely that the successive faunas which palæontology discloses have originated from one another by descent.
The contributions of palæontology to the solution of the problems of descent posed by morphology are, however, not all of this negative character.
It seems to have escaped the notice of your correspondent, that geography and astronomy were no more advanced in those days than geology and palæontology in our own.
Palæontology is defined as ‘the science which treats of fossil remains both animal and vegetable.
In brief, palæontology has passed largely from the inductive to the deductive stage.
At the same time, the line that parts off Ontologyfrom Logic (Analytic and Dialectic) on the one hand, and from Physics on the other, is not always clearly marked.
To these two, accordingly, he **confines Ontologyor First Philosophy.
In both, indeed, Ontology is looked at as implicated with Logic; that is, Ens is considered as distributed under significant names, fit to be coupled in propositions.
However much the Ontology of Aristotle may fail to satisfy modern exigencies, still, as compared with the Platonic Realism, it was a considerable improvement.
Ontology and Metaphysics, of Physics and Ethics, and the common Axioms assumed in all the sciences, as discriminated from what is special and peculiar to each.
Ontology examines the constituent virtues of the being.
Erdmann[751] remarks that in this section Kant "is settling accounts with certain thoughts which in the 'seventies had yielded suggestions for the transformation of ontology into the transcendental analytic.
In any case, the question whetherOntology be a possible science, concerns, not Logic, but the nature and laws of intuitive knowledge.
All the common phenomena of Morphology and Physiology, of Chorology and Oekology, of Ontology and Paleontology, can be explained by the theory of descent, and referred to simple mechanical causes.
His ontology is just as elaborate as his physics, and he evidently considers its barren propositions of more value than any observations on astronomy or physiology.
Between the ontology of Parmenides and that of Hegel what a step there is!
For this doctrine brings Ontology into contact with Theology; and it is only in relation to theology that ontologyacquires a practical importance.
In recognizing ontology as a legitimate investigation, we revert in principle to the "dogmatist" position common, e.
It is almost superfluous to remark that hardly any fossil fish are known from south of the equator; and by running through Pictet's Palæontology it will be seen that very few species are known from several formations in Europe.
While stating in the text, and in a necessarily general way, the evidence which is yielded by palæontology to the theory of organic evolution, I have been desirous of not overstating it.
