Together with mereology and the protothetic, this word identifies a deductive system created by Stanislaw Lesniewski.
Together with mereology and the protothetic, this word identifies a deductive system created by Stanislaw Lesniewski. G. E. Moore argued the thing studied by this field cannot be properly predicated of a subject and Martin Heidegger referred to it as "Legitimate only if taken very generally," in a lecture course titled after this concept and subtitled "The Hermeneutics of Facticity." Avicenna argued that the thing this field studies is grasped by the intellect before anything else, while Thomas Aquinas argued that thing is given to all creatures by God, thereby ruling out any necessary existence. A work which examines the distinction between en-soi and pour-soi and posits the concept of "bad faith" is "a phenomenological essay on" this concept and was written by Jean-Paul Sartre. The adjectival form of the name of this field describes an argument for the existence of God. For 10 points, name this branch of metaphysics which studies the nature of being.
Together with mereology and the protothetic, this word identifies a deductive system created by Stanislaw Lesniewski.
ontology [accept study of being or study of existence before mention of "being" or "existence", respectively]