ontology
on-TOL-uh-jee
Definition
The philosophical study of the nature of being, existence, or reality; in this article, it refers to the foundational set of assumptions about what constitutes a real political subject or event.
Etymology
Derived from the Greek 'on' (being) and 'logos' (study or theory), the term emerged in the 17th century as a branch of metaphysics concerned with identifying what entities exist and how they can be grouped or categorized.
In the news
The author discusses the 'inversion of political ontology,' meaning that technology is changing the fundamental nature of political existence by allowing artificial entities to replace the actual people that constitutions are designed to represent.
AI Can Now Manufacture the Public That Constitutions Take for Granted
Read the full article ↗Jurist.org