Just as Epistemology studies ‘Knowing’ while already in a state of Knowing, Ontology studies ‘Being’ while firmly resident in a state of Being.
It is the Elephant in the Room, the one we all agree to ignore.
Existence, from the Latin ‘ex-sistere‘: ‘to stand forward, manifest’.
We are making an implicit ontological assignment, granting the status of ‘Being’ [Existence, ‘Is-ness’] anytime and every time we use the little word ‘Is’. ‘Is’ is arguably the most used grammatical link in the English Language.
Try it. Try and speak on your cell-phone for 10 minutes without using the word ‘Is’. Try and write a page in English without using any of its variants [was, will be, etc].
Its hard; but here is the strangest thing. This ubiquitous word, this word we use a hundred times a day in all its variations, has no formal definition, is in fact undefinable. Very wise men have been trying to define it for a few thousand years and no one has scored anything more than a Gentleman’s ‘C’.
But that has not daunted our brave Academics nor our enterprising Universities. In the same way that not having an honest definition for ‘Know’ did not discourage them from starting a Subject called Epistemology. they now founded a Subject called Ontology. The new Department of ‘Is’.
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