What is an Ontological Category?
Peter van Inwagen · 2012
PHILOSOPHY GO, 'ontology' is a rather new word.Although it is older than that terminological parvenu 'epistemology', it is much newer than 'metaphysics' or 'ethics' or 'logic'-and, of course, it is much newer than 'philosophy'.But the word is as hard to define as any of her elder sisters.Within analytical philosophy 1 , one finds three understandings of the word 'ontology' -or, if you like, three conceptions of ontology 2 .