Ontology vs Archaeology - What's the difference?
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(uncountable, philosophy) The branch of metaphysics that addresses the nature or essential characteristics of being and of things that exist; the study of being qua being.
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(countable, philosophy) The theory of a particular philosopher or school of thought concerning the fundamental types of entity in the universe.
* 2000 , , Substantial Knowledge: Aristotle's Metaphysics , Hackett Publishing, p. 97:
(logic) A logical system involving theory of classes, developed by (1886-1939).
(computer science, information science) A structure of concepts or entities within a domain, organized by relationships; a system model.
The study of the past by excavation and analysis of its material remains:
* 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault , pages 36,{1} 63,{2} and 64{3} (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
the actual excavation, examination, analysis and interpretation.
: the actual remains together with their location in the stratigraphy.
: the academic subject; in the USA: one of the four sub-disciplines of anthropology.
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As nouns the difference between ontology and archaeology
is that ontology is (uncountable|philosophy) the branch of metaphysics that addresses the nature or essential characteristics of being and of things that exist; the study of being qua being while archaeology is the study of the past by excavation and analysis of its material remains:.ontology
English
(wikipedia ontology)Noun
(ontologies)- The answer to the controversial question of whether Aristotle's ontology includes non-substantial particulars, then, is that it does.
Usage notes
In the field of philosophy there is some variation in how the term ontology'' is used. ''Ontology'' is a much more recent term than ''metaphysics'' and takes its root meaning explicitly from the Greek term for ''being.'' ''Ontology'' can be used loosely as a rough equivalent to ''metaphysics or more precisely to denote that subset of the domain of metaphysics which is focused rigorously on the study of being as being.Holonyms
* metaphysicsDerived terms
* ontologic * ontological * ontologist * ontologistic * formal ontologyReferences
* * * * * * "ontology" by F.P. Siegfried, in The Catholic Encyclopedia (Robert Appleton Company, New York, 1911) * Oxford English Dictionary , second edition (1989) * Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996) * Dictionary of Philosophy'', (editor), Philosophical Library (1962); ''see: "Ontology" by James K. Feibleman, page 219 * "
Ontology" by Tom Gruber to appear in the Encyclopedia of Database Systems, Ling Liu and M. Tamer Özsu (editors), Springer-Verlag (2008) English words suffixed with -ology
archaeology
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(wikiversity archaeology lecture)Alternative forms
* (Commonwealth) * archeology (primarily USA)Noun
(-)- {1} He first presented a complementary thesis on the Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant' (1724–1804), in which he used the term “' archaeology ” for the first time, and which indicated the period of history to which he was constantly to return.
- {2} The latent grid of knowledge which organizes every scientific discourse and defines what can or cannot be thought scientifically — the process of uncovering these levels Foucault calls 'archaeology' .
- {3} “Archaeology'”, as the investigation of that which renders necessary a certain form of thought, implies an excavation of unconsciously organized sediments of thought. Unlike a '''history of ideas''', it doesn’t assume that knowledge accumulates towards any historical conclusion. '''Archaeology''' ignores individuals and their histories. It prefers to excavate '''impersonal''' structures of knowledge.
'''Archaeology''' is a task that ''doesn’t'' consist of treating discourse as signs referring to a real content like madness. It treats discourses, such as medicine, as ' practices that form the objects of which they speak.
- The building's developers have asked for some archaeology to be undertakem.
- The archaeology will tell us which methods of burial were used by the Ancient Greeks.
- She studied archaeology at Edinburgh University.
