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can..   Overview Edit  Ontology, in analytic philosophy,
concerns the determination whether some categories of being are
fundamental and asks in what sense can the items in those
categories be said to "be." It is the inquiry into being in so
much as it is being ("being qua being"), or into beings insofar
as they exist—and not insofar as, for instance, particular facts
can be obtained about them or particular properties belong to
them.[citation needed]   Some fundamental questions Edit
Principal questions of ontology are "What can be said to
exist?", "Into what categories, if any, can we sort existing
things?", "What are the meanings of being?", "What are the
various modes of being of entities?". Various
philosophers[attribution needed] have provided different answers
to these questions.[citation needed]  One common approa