Original Meaning and Transferred Meaning of Ontology
Xie Wei-ying · Journal of Yantai University · 2008
Ontology in Chinese etymology means the highest,the most fundamental,the most popular and the most important.Although it is loan word,it has great difference from oringinal of ontology when translated into Chiness and has abvously meaning.If original meaning of ontology is transcendental purely logic stipulation and unique morphology of the Western Philosophy,a field of idea world,absolute spirit,pure reason which is isolated from experience world or prio to experience world,and a pure principle unable to be proven from real world,then in Chiness,ontology has richer transferred unparalleled with ontology in West.The meanings contain all things of the highest,the ultimate,the most fundamental,the most popular and the most important which human has been pursuing.These meanings have both traditional influence of Chinese culture and need of development of academic discipline.In course of production and evolution of philosophy area,this phenomenon is quite common.