Abstract

The plainness of the title need not mislead as to the depth and breadth of the content of the question for it is almost anyone’s knowledge that the question of ontological being is over time the main pillar of philosophical inquiry, in fact the groundwork on which have been generated, elaborated and vindicated various ontological theories starting from the Greek antiquity to our days. And yet what is significantly shaping the discussion in our days is that one can hardly engage and progress in philosophy without taking into account the current epistemological edifice. In a certain sense and to the extent that a host of current scientific theories transcend what a pragmatically minded scientist would affirm as science proper, i.e. the body of knowledge conditioned on a number of empirically founded verifiable laws together with the corpus of the laws of analytical logic or its modifications according with the observational context, the boundaries between science and philosophy have become so blurred that one possibly needs to deal at least to some extent with the question of absolute being in the light of current epistemology.