to point to the ontology of man but the negatively creative onto-cosmology of Dao so as to espouse a language of meontology 3 Reading the text from the perspective of nothingness allows us to color the philosophy of the Zhuangzi in positive shades of understanding, thus rendering the being of man secondary
Keywords Ontology · Cosmology · Selection eect · Extra galactic objects · Gamma ray bursts 1 Introduction The task and scope of “ontology” have been negotiated many times In particular, the very meaning of “ontology” can vary to a signicant extent: the mere specication of a taxon-
Ontology and Cosmology Ontology in philosophical discussions refers to the subject of existence It questions the nature of being and constitutes a major branch of metaphysics Cosmology, on the other hand, is the study of the origins and fate of the universe In the Islamic intellectual tradition, cosmology
144 COSMOLOGY, ONTOLOGY, AND THE TRAVAIL OF BIBLICAL LANGUAGE the reign of causal law in the phenomenal realm of space and time, or at least denied that that reign of law had obtained in bib lical days To the liberals, therefore, this orthodox view of revelation represented a primitive, prescientific form of religion