Are you asking what a thing is, as opposed to a non thing?
“Thing” might be the broadest of all categories...or it might contrast with traditional categories, like, “event”, “process”, “state”, “property”, “relation”, “type”, “law” etc.
Speaking of which...ontology is a thing , in the Buffyesque sense...there are thousands of years of prior art available. So there is no particular need to reinvent the subject from scratch.
Wikipedia’s Kant says: Noumena can’t be directly perceived and can’t be known, they are completely eternally external to and separated from minds.
Are you asking what a thing is, as opposed to a non thing?
“Thing” might be the broadest of all categories...or it might contrast with traditional categories, like, “event”, “process”, “state”, “property”, “relation”, “type”, “law” etc.
Speaking of which...ontology is a thing , in the Buffyesque sense...there are thousands of years of prior art available. So there is no particular need to reinvent the subject from scratch.
Errmmm...I think that would be a paraphrase.