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What is ontology? How is it relevant to research?

Ontology is the study of reality where it talks about how things exists in the real world, it mainly looks into several questions that are related.

What things exists? 
For example: 

• the sun exits, the moon exists, dragons do not exist.
• and vampires do not exit, numbers exists.

What category do they belong to? 
Do numbers have physical properties or are they ideas?
Is there something called the objective reality? (Something that actually exist)

What does ‘to be’ mean?
In research ontology looks into what the data is about and uses them as the basis for thestructure of data or project, ontology assists researches identify how certain andconfident they can be about the existence and nature of objects they are researchingabout.

What is epistemology? How is it relevant to research?

Epistemology is the study of the scope and nature of knowledge, the method of obtainingthe knowledge, and its justification Basic questions in epistemology are Questions of Origin.

What is knowledge? What are its sources? How is it acquired?Question of appearance vs reality.

What is the nature of knowledge?Question of testing truth and verification.

Is our knowledge valid? What is justified true belief?
In research Epistemology deals with the means and methods of obtaining the knowledge.It deals with the possibilities, its sources, its nature and limitations of knowledge in thefield of study.

What is the connection between ontology and epistemology in a research context?
Epistemology is about how we know things, states the different ways that we could useto understand and ontology is about what the things actually are, describes things as theyare and deals with questions such as what is it? Epistemology debates as to what madeyou think as to what it was. Hence Epistemology deals with how to obtain theknowledge of certain researches and ontology on the other hand describes therelationships and deals with the questions such as what it is.