Reflections on the Is: Physics Penetrates Ontology

J.A. Janik H. Niewodniczański Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Radzikowskiego 152, 31-342 Kraków, Poland

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Received: 26 10 2007;

When considering questions such as What it means that something is? when? where? and how? we may for some purposes say that we are concentrating entirely on is - sometime, somewhere, somehow. This illustrates a transition from physical abstraction to ontological abstraction.

DOI: 10.12693/APhysPolA.112.S-189 PACS numbers: