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      BACK TO THE QUESTION OF ONTOLOGY (AND METAPHYSICS)

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          Abstract We articulate a distinction between ontology, understood as involving existence questions, and metaphysics, understood as either providing for metaphysical profiles of entities or else as dealing with fundamentality and/or grounding and dependence questions. The distinction, we argue, allows a better understanding of the roles of metaontology and metametaphysics when it comes to discussing the relations between ontology and science on the one hand, and metaphysics and science on the other. We argue that while ontology, as understood in this paper, may have reasonable perspectives for naturalization, given its relation to science, the same cannot be said for metaphysics, given that it is typically understood as an additional theoretical layer over science, not participating in the scientific investigation. That may result either in skepticism over metaphysics, or else on accepting that metaphysics is an autonomous branch of investigation, depending on one’s concern for metaphysics.

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                UNICAMP - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Centro de Lógica, Epistemologia e História da Ciência (Campinas, SP, Brazil )
                0100-6045
                2317-630X
                June 2021
                : 44
                : 2
                : 1-51
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                [2] Florianópolis Santa Catarina orgnameUniversidade Federal de Santa Catarina orgdiv1Graduate Program in Philosophy Brazil raoniarroyo@ 123456gmail.com
                [1] Florianópolis Santa Catarina orgnameUniversidade Federal de Santa Catarina orgdiv1Department of Philosophy Brazil jonas.becker2@ 123456gmail.com
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                S0100-60452021000200001 S0100-6045(21)04400200001
                10.1590/0100-6045.2021.v44n2.jr
                99d55b18-9ab5-4843-a90a-d226e61cad20

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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                : 06 September 2020
                : 04 May 2021
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                Metaontology,Metaphysics,Ontology,Metametaphysics,Naturalism

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