Ontology: References & Edit History
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Additional Reading
Hans Burkhardt and Barry Smith, eds., Handbook of Metaphysics and Ontology (1991), is a thorough and authoritative survey with short articles covering the concepts, principles, and theorists of ontology. Reinhardt Grossmann, The Existence of the World: An Introduction to Ontology (1992), is clear but tends to favour certain views. Ingvar Johansson, Ontological Investigations: An Inquiry into the Categories of Nature, Man, and Society (1989), is a wide-ranging nonlinguistic approach to ontology.
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| Article title updated for style. | Nov 03, 2026 | ||
| Deleted Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Implications From the Analogous Relationship Between Evolutionary and Learning Processes. | Aug 08, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Implications From the Analogous Relationship Between Evolutionary and Learning Processes. | Apr 02, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Introduction to Symbolic Logic (PDF). | Mar 27, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Ontology - Its Role in Modern Philosophy. | Oct 30, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: Ontology - Its Role in Modern Philosophy. | Oct 30, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Washington - Predication and Ontology. | Jul 13, 2012 | ||
| Changed the date of the first use of "ontologia" and identified the work in which the first use occurred. | Nov 25, 2009 | ||
| Article thoroughly revised. | Jun 19, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: The Catholic Encyclopedia - Ontology. | Jan 21, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Logic and Ontology. | Jan 21, 2008 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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