Interesting essay by Levi….
As a discourse, ontology seeks to articulate the most general and fundamental nature of being or of what is and what is not. Ontology and being are not the same. Being consists of what is regardless of whether there is any discourse about it. Ontology is a discourse about what is. This distinction is important because ontologies, as discourses about the being of beings, can be mistaken. There is no discourse that doesn’t presuppose an ontology or metaphysics (I use the two terms as synonyms). For example, if you tell a person that your mother is seriously ill and going in for surgery and they reply by saying “I will pray for you”, their statement, whether they realize it or not, presupposes an ontology. Minimally such a statement presupposes ontological claims about the types of beings that exist and about causation. This person presupposes the existence of a divine being…
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