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'''Ontology''' is a branch of [[metaphysics]] that focuses on existence, being, or the philosophy of [[reality]], and includes the [[ontological argument]] for the existence of [[God]], and such questions as the [[source of the Universe]].
 
'''Ontology''' is a branch of [[metaphysics]] that focuses on existence, being, or the philosophy of [[reality]], and includes the [[ontological argument]] for the existence of [[God]], and such questions as the [[source of the Universe]].
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==Synonyms==
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A synonym of ontology is 'state of affairs'. Though the latter term often is used in a more flexible sense of both real and absurd imagination, to ask of the ontology of, say, roses is to ask 'what is the state of affairs which is rose-ness?'
    
==See Also==
 
==See Also==
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