onticos
Ontics, also encountered as onticos in some texts, is a philosophical term describing the domain of existing beings and concrete facts about them. It contrasts with ontology, which studies the nature and structure of being.
In usage, ontic describes particular entities and facts about the external world, while ontological concerns the
The ontic-ontological distinction is found in phenomenology and analytic philosophy; early uses include Husserl's ontic versus
In information science and artificial intelligence, ontologies are formal representations of a domain; ontics would refer
See also: ontology, ontic, ontological, ontological commitment.