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The 16 pages that link to Ontology, each with the reason it gives.

• MetaphysicsBroader topic: It is metaphysics’ central inquiry into what kinds of things reality contains.

• MonismNarrower topic: Monism is an ontological thesis about the ultimate number or unity of what exists.

• SubstanceNarrower topic: Substance is a proposed basic category in accounts of what exists.

• Substance theoryNarrower topic: Substance theory is one answer to ontology’s question about reality’s basic kinds.

• WorldviewRelated: Beliefs about what is real form a worldview’s picture of the world.

• Metaphysical naturalismNarrower topic: Naturalism makes a broad claim about what belongs in reality.

• Emmanuel LevinasCompared with: Levinas argues that ethical relation precedes ontology rather than being grounded in it.

• Problem of universalsRelated: Each account proposes a different inventory of entities in the world.

• Being and TimeNarrower topic: The work renews ontology by distinguishing the meaning of Being from the study of beings.

• Alain BadiouNarrower topic: Badiou identifies ontology with mathematics rather than with a theory of objects.

• RealityRelated: Ontology focuses the broad question of reality on what exists.

• Research methodologyRelated: Claims about reality influence which research questions and evidence seem appropriate.

• Jean-Luc NancyNarrower topic: Nancy’s claims about shared existence belong to a broader inquiry into being.

• Mario BungeNarrower topic: Bunge’s account of science rests on an explicit ontology of material things and systems.

• Theoretical philosophyBroader topic: It focuses metaphysical inquiry on existence and categories of being.

• WolffianismNarrower topic: Wolffian metaphysics gives ontology a central place in its classification of knowledge.