Ontology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23199648 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Charles Taylor (0000-0002-5202-3445, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1959 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 129 |
| Pages | 125-141 |
| Publication date | 1959-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8191 • E-ISSN: 1469-817X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s003181910004746x |
| OpenAlex | W4253682911 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
The questions traditionally known as ontological have sometimes been summed up in the deceptively simple interrogative: “What is there?” But this formulation is notoriously misleading, because it suggests that we are already quite clear as to what “Being” is, i.e. as to what we mean when we say of something, that it exists. And this is not always so. Moreover, when we make statements like, “Time exists”, “redness exists”, it is almost never so. Statements of this kind, of course, are very uncommon. We could imagine a situation in which they could have a use, but only a rhetorical use. We would be hard put to say how to go about answering them or debating them.
Epistemology · Existential quantification · Interrogative · Linguistics · Ontology · Rhetorical question · Simple (philosophy) · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Computer Science · Philosophy
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Implicanze etiche dei "visual studies". Metafore e immaginari sociali
‘My Kind of Catholic.’ On Taylor’s Contribution to Philosophy of Religion
Morals by metaphor
Charles Taylor and the pre-history of British cultural studies
Introduction to the Book Symposium on The Language Animal by Charles Taylor
Ernst E. Boesch’s Ontologic Predication in Focus
Thick Concepts and the Moral Brain
| Citations per year | 0.47 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2026 (18) |
| Highly cited | No |