TY - BOOK AU - Hartmann, Nicolai AU - Peterson, Keith R. TI - Ontology: laying the foundations SN - 9783110626292 U1 - 111 PY - 2021/// PB - De Gruyter KW - Ontology N2 - Ontology: Laying the Foundations addresses the question of "what is insofar as it is." Its four sections explore traditional ontological assumptions and categories such as substance, thing, individual, whole, object, and phenomenon. It offers a new redefinition of existence and essence based on the ontological concepts of Dasein and Sosein and their interrelationships. The book also examines modes of "givenness" and the ontological foundation of cognition within affective, transcendent acts. Finally, it discusses the status of ideal being, including mathematical existence, phenomenological essences, logical laws, values, and the connections between the ideal and real realms ER -