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  1. beings

    In metaphysics, ontology is the philosophical study of being, as well as related concepts such as existence, becoming, and reality. Ontology addresses questions like how entities are grouped into categories and which of these entities exist on the most fundamental level. Ontologists often try to determine what the categories or highest kinds are and how they form a system of categories that encompasses the classification of all entities. Commonly proposed categories include substances, properties, relations, states of affairs and events. These categories are characterized by fundamental ontological concepts, including particularity and universality, abstractness and concreteness, or possibility and necessity. Of special interest is the concept of ontological dependence, which determines whether the entities of a category exist on the most fundamental level. Disagreements within ontology are often about whether entities belonging to a certain category exist and, if so, how they are related to other entities.When used as a countable noun, the words ontology and ontologies refer not to the science of being but to theories within the science of being. Ontological theories can be divided into various types according to their theoretical commitments. Monocategorical ontologies hold that there is only one basic category, but polycategorical ontologies rejected this view. Hierarchical ontologies assert that some entities exist on a more fundamental level and that other entities depend on them. Flat ontologies, on the other hand, deny such a privileged status to any entity.

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  1. beings

    Plural form of the word being.

    There was one being in the room and another three beings joined after to create a team.


    Submitted by MaryC on November 24, 2015  

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    Rank popularity for the word 'beings' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4295

Anagrams for beings »

  1. begins

  2. binges

  3. sigben

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of beings in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of beings in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

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  1. Lori Lightfoot:

    As a person of faith, I believe we must see God's presence in all human beings, tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images's what being a good Christian is.

  2. Aldous Huxley:

    The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. . .they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted.

  3. Prem Rawat:

    It is in the minds of men that wars are created. It is from the hearts of human beings that peace will be created. If every individual were to value and feel at peace with themselves there would be no wars. There is something essentially good in every human being, when we find it, nurture it and live consciously, peace becomes a reality.

  4. Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn:

    One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.

  5. Paul Tournier:

    That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

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