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What it means for something to exist.
What does it mean for that chair in your room to exist? Does it exist because it is there in a physical form, because the material is there? Or does it exist because of its function, because the chair is there to be sat upon? What it means for something to exist is ontology, and both of these examples would work.
ontology by puhdoo November 2, 2013

generative ontology 

The hypothesis that religion emerged as a paradigm to protect consciousness from destroying language.
Generative ontology argues that religion (narrative ego) and all mythologies are a promise to the consciousness by the super-conscious (mind) that language will one day be destroyed.

social ontology

A cyclical time theory of linearity in which asymmetry causes incompleteness (inequality); and incompleteness causes discontinuity; and discontinuity recursively causes asymmetry.

That is to say, from mediums emerge outcomes, from outcomes emerge catastrophes and from catastrophes recurse to form new mediums beginning the cycle of linearity once again.

Also called ontologistics.
Social ontology is an ontologistical iteration of the tri-functional hypothesis.
social ontology by sandraxine August 26, 2018

Dontology 

The study of Don Toliver, Don Toliver’s music, and overall study of Don Toliver’s career
“Vitali is the professor of Dontology”
Dontology by anonymous March 9, 2024

infra-ontology 

Paradigm which explains why vision theory exists.

It states that outside of pan-contiguity the surface area of a line is twice the length of that line.
In infra-ontology, vision-motion is green but red sees the viewer.

Infra-ontology portends a signal theory of everything.
infra-ontology by metawave July 15, 2020

generative ontology 

A paradigm that states that Friedrich Nietzsche's will-to-power is the desire to destroy language.
Generative ontology states the man's subconscious' wants to destroy language. Only religion is preventing him from doing so.
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