Subject: Re: ontology enjoys invisibility
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 15:01:24 -0600 (MDT)
From: Gary Norris <garyn-AT-tatteredcover.com>


> 
> > 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
> 


great point, soren!

for me ontology means meaninglessness.  ontological questions are those 
questions that mean nothing once answered-- that is in reference to the 
everyday.


norris