Antedating of "Ontology"

Fred Shapiro fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Mon Jan 17 15:27:17 UTC 2005


This one antedates the revised OED.


ontology (OED3 1721)

1706 Richard Brocklesby _An Explication of the Gospel-Theism and the
Divinity of the Christian Religion_ 72 (Eighteenth Century Collections
Online)  For this Platonic _Ontology_ is an ascent of the Mind.



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