The troubles with ontological primacy
Anna Wójtowicz · Semiotica · 2012
There are many kind of ontologies. But what does it really mean that we speak about ontology of a certain kind? Different philosophers understand the notion of ontological primacy in different ways. In this paper, we will consider what the possible meanings of the notion of ontological primacy are, and what assumptions should be fulfilled to assure the existence of a unique solution to the problem of ontological primacy (of entities of a certain kind). This will also solve the problem of the kind of ontology.