Editing Entity (section)

== In philosophy ==
{{Main article|Ontology}}
Ontology is the study of concepts of existence, and of recognition of entities. The words ontic and entity are derived respectively from the ancient Greek and Latin present participles that mean "[[being]]".

{{quote|In an ontic inquiry... one asks about the properties or the physical relations and structures peculiar to some entity – in the pen's case, for example, we might make the following ontic observations about it: it is black, full of blue ink, and sitting on top of my desk.<ref>Hubert L. Dreyfus, Mark A. Wrathall, eds., ''A Companion to Heidegger'' (2008), p. 3.</ref>}}