Philosophia prima sive ontologia
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Philosophia prima sive ontologia is Christian Wolff’s foundational treatise on metaphysics, in which he systematically develops a rationalist account of being and its most general principles.
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| Philosophia prima sive ontologia canonical | 2 |
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Target entity: Philosophia prima sive ontologia Context triple: [Christian Wolff, notableWork, Philosophia prima sive ontologia]
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A.
Principles of Philosophy
Principles of Philosophy is a 1644 work by René Descartes that systematically presents his metaphysical and scientific views, aiming to provide a comprehensive foundation for natural philosophy.
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B.
Meditations on First Philosophy
Meditations on First Philosophy is René Descartes’ foundational philosophical treatise in which he employs radical doubt to establish certain knowledge and famously argues for the distinction between mind and body.
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Principles of Cartesian Philosophy
Principles of Cartesian Philosophy is Baruch Spinoza’s early systematic exposition and critique of René Descartes’ philosophy, presented in a geometric, axiomatic style that anticipates his later work.
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Philosophia rationalis sive logica
Philosophia rationalis sive logica is an 18th-century treatise by Christian Wolff that systematically presents his influential rationalist theory of logic and method.
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E.
Deus sive Natura
Deus sive Natura is Baruch Spinoza’s philosophical conception of God as identical with the single, all-encompassing substance of nature and reality.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Philosophia prima sive ontologia Target entity description: Philosophia prima sive ontologia is Christian Wolff’s foundational treatise on metaphysics, in which he systematically develops a rationalist account of being and its most general principles.
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A.
Principles of Philosophy
Principles of Philosophy is a 1644 work by René Descartes that systematically presents his metaphysical and scientific views, aiming to provide a comprehensive foundation for natural philosophy.
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B.
Meditations on First Philosophy
Meditations on First Philosophy is René Descartes’ foundational philosophical treatise in which he employs radical doubt to establish certain knowledge and famously argues for the distinction between mind and body.
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C.
Principles of Cartesian Philosophy
Principles of Cartesian Philosophy is Baruch Spinoza’s early systematic exposition and critique of René Descartes’ philosophy, presented in a geometric, axiomatic style that anticipates his later work.
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D.
Philosophia rationalis sive logica
Philosophia rationalis sive logica is an 18th-century treatise by Christian Wolff that systematically presents his influential rationalist theory of logic and method.
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E.
Deus sive Natura
Deus sive Natura is Baruch Spinoza’s philosophical conception of God as identical with the single, all-encompassing substance of nature and reality.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
metaphysics book
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philosophical work ⓘ treatise ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
develop a rationalist account of being
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establish the most general principles of all things ⓘ |
| associatedWith | German Enlightenment ⓘ |
| author | Christian Wolff ⓘ |
| concerns |
logical and ontological principles of thought and reality
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the most general determinations of being ⓘ |
| describedAs |
foundational treatise on metaphysics
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systematic account of being ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
metaphysics
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ontology ⓘ philosophy ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
concept of being
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most general principles of reality ⓘ principle of non-contradiction ⓘ principle of sufficient reason ⓘ rational structure of being ⓘ |
| genre | scholastic-style systematic treatise ⓘ |
| hasPart |
general ontology
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principles of contradiction and sufficient reason ⓘ theory of being ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Early modern philosophy ⓘ |
| influenced |
18th-century German metaphysics
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Immanuel Kant ⓘ Leibnizian rationalism ⓘ
surface form:
Leibniz–Wolffian school
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| influencedBy | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz ⓘ |
| keyConcept |
ens in genere (being in general)
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essence and existence distinction ⓘ ground and consequence (fundamentum et consequens) ⓘ necessary and contingent being ⓘ perfection and reality (realitas) ⓘ |
| language | Latin ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
metaphysics
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ontology ⓘ |
| method |
axiomatic-deductive method
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rationalist method ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Philosophia prima sive ontologia self-link ⓘ |
| partOf | Christian Wolff’s metaphysical system ⓘ |
| philosophicalDiscipline | general metaphysics ⓘ |
| philosophicalSchool |
Leibnizian rationalism
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surface form:
Leibniz–Wolffian philosophy
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| philosophicalTradition | rationalism ⓘ |
| positionInSystem | first part of Wolff’s metaphysics ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Cosmologia generalis
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Psychologia empirica ⓘ Psychologia rationalis ⓘ Theologia naturalis ⓘ |
| titleLanguage | Latin ⓘ |
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