From: "Soren Pedersen" <speder-AT-post2.tele.dk>
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 10:35:57 +0200
Subject: Re: ontology enjoys invisibility


> The ontology of something is its nature/essence, an answer to the
> question, "What exactly is this?"
> 
> On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, tOlchOck . wrote:
> 
> > i was wondering if you all could offer me YOUR or what you would 
> > consider to be the 'most accurate' definitions of the word 'ontology'? 

I think we should add that ontology is ahistorical. It is a spatial 
phenomenon directly opposed to the chaos of time. "Only things 
without history can be defined", as Nietzsche said.

- Soren