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ONTOLOGY
That department of the science of metaphysics which investigates and explains the character and essential properties and relations of all beings, as such, or the principles and causes of being.
Origin: Gr. The things which exist (pl.neut. Of, being, p.pr. Of to be): cf.F. Ontologie.
Source: Websters Vocabulary