Ontology.

Ontology is a good enough word, don’t spoil it.

    Since the time of Aristotle the word ‘Ontology’ meant a very particular thing. He argued that if the Artist ‘sees’ a shape of a statue in a piece of wood, it means that this shape and the statue itself ‘exists’ before it has been carved. On and on he goes to the point where he declares that this ‘shape’ is a substance that exists perpetually without change. And, of course, Ontology will be the science dealing with the “ultimate grounds of being”. More about it in a very popular form in (1).
    According to Aristotle form was an ultimate reality and matter was just a ‘potential’ reality… drumbeat… because matter can take many different forms. So, the idea is real, matter is secondary.

Bibliography:

1. Hans Reichenbach, “THE RISE of Scientific Philosophy”, (University of California Press, 1968), p.12.
   

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