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# Ontology ## Links (Wikipedia order)  `A_Treatise_Concerning_the_Principles_of_Human_Knowledge` · `Abductive_reasoning` · `Abhidharma` · `Absolute_idealism` · `Abstract_and_concrete` · `Abstract_object_theory` · `Achintya_Bheda_Abheda` · `Action_theory_(philosophy)` · `Advaita_Vedanta` · `Aesthetic_emotions` · `Aesthetics` · `African_philosophy` · `Africana_philosophy` · `Agriculturalism` · `Ajñana` · `Al-Ghazali` · `Al-Kindi` · `Al-Nijat` · `Alexius_Meinong` · `Alfred_North_Whitehead` · `Alvin_Plantinga` · `Alyssa_Ney` · `American_Journal_of_Archaeology` · `American_philosophy` · `Analytic_philosophy` · `Analytical_Marxism` · `Analytical_feminism` · `Anarchism` · `Ancient_Egyptian_philosophy` · `Ancient_Greece` · `Ancient_Greek` · `Ancient_Greek_philosophy` · `Ancient_Roman_philosophy` · `Ancient_history` · `Ancient_philosophy` · `Anekantavada` · `Anima_mundi` · `Animism` · `Anselm_of_Canterbury` · `Anthropology` · `Anti-realism` · `Antihumanism` · `Antipositivism` · `Applied_ethics` 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Source: Wikimedia Commons (via Wikipedia article media). [Details & license](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chair_2020_P01.jpg).* > Ontology is the philosophical study of being. It is traditionally understood as the subdiscipline of metaphysics focused on the most general features of reality. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology))  > Summary stub · part of Systems Thinking · [Wikipedia source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology) ## Summary Ontology is the philosophical study of being. It is traditionally understood as the subdiscipline of metaphysics focused on the most general features of reality. As one of the most fundamental concepts, being encompasses all of reality and every entity within it. To articulate the basic [[Structure|structure]] of being, ontology examines the commonalities among all things and investigates their classification into basic types, such as the categories of particulars and universals. Particulars are unique, non-repeatable entities, such as the person Socrates, whereas universals are general, repeatable entities, like the color green. Another distinction exists between concrete objects existing in space and time, such as a tree, and abstract objects existing outside space and time, like the number 7. ## Key points - Ontology is the philosophical study of being. - It is traditionally understood as the subdiscipline of metaphysics focused on the most general features of reality. - As one of the most fundamental concepts, being encompasses all of reality and every entity within it. - To articulate the basic structure of being, ontology examines the commonalities among all things and investigates their classification into basic types, such as the categories of particulars and universals. - Particulars are unique, non-repeatable entities, such as the person Socrates, whereas universals are general, repeatable entities, like the color green. ## Relation to Systems Thinking Ontology sits within the Systems Thinking cluster of related concepts. Its principles contribute to understanding [[Feedback|feedback]], [[Emergence|emergence]], and dynamic behavior in complex adaptive systems. ## Sources - [Ontology — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology) Back to Systems Thinking ---  ## Semiotic profile > *The semiotic universals this article invokes, machine-derived from the crossref — **unverified** (born so). Populated 2026-07-06 for the Systems room.* **Universals (4):** 🟡 system (7) · 🟡 structure (3) · 🟢 emergence (2) · 🟢 feedback (2) **Enter by sign:** Systems Semiotic Gateway · Alphabetum · Icon Registry · ← Systems Portal   ## Wikipedia : Wikitube **Strict pair:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology) : [Wikitube](https://en.wikitube.io/wiki/Ontology) ## Previous hub tags Tree parents: [[Cybernetics]] · [[Systems_theory]]. Legacy hubs: none. --- *Sources: 1 legacy note. Minted wave 1, 2026-07-30 (v1.6 order).*