Ontology

Brief summary and explanation of Rudolf Carnap's Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology, including the article's relevance for metaphysics.

Mark Heller's conception of appropriateness is similar to William James' conception of truth as far as practical use is concerned, but these conceptions diverge insofar as Heller differentiates appropriateness from truth as conceived in standard logic.

A presentation of how Catholicism is connected to ontology and why the traditional Latin Mass is important within this given context.

This third essay of "A Rational Cosmology" makes the distinction between ontology and cosmology; it further argues for cosmology's place as a branch of philosophy rather than a branch of physics. The distinction between entities and qualities is also introduced.