ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a tentative map of what Husserl calls the “various delimitations of the general concept of ontology.” After having introduced the way in which the early Husserl confronts Aristotle’s Metaphysics and the question of the different meanings of “being,” it is shown how the distinction between being as “that-which-is-real” and being as “that-which-is-true” governs a series of crossed distinctions within the borders of ontology: hodological vs. metaphysical ontology, a posteriori vs. a priori, formal vs. material whose mutual relations are explicitly spelled out. The chapter briefly concludes with some remarks on the external borders of Husserl’s ontology, pointing towards transcendental phenomenology.
