ABSTRACT
The expression "following an idea" implies that ideas have a life or at least an agency of their own. This expression also suggests that ideas cannot stay still, that if they stop moving, they disappear. For instance, for a child to understand the idea that one has to say "thank you" when receiving something involves following a number of instances in which this idea materializes. In terms of subsistence, an idea is right so long as it keeps finding new elements through which it can materialize or express itself; it is wrong when it fails to do so. In short, ontology was to be derived from epistemology; it was a mere by-product. Ontology is no longer a pariah entirely subordinated to epistemology but an inseparable companion that allows epistemology to explore various manners of expressing the difference between right and wrong, true and untrue, just and unjust.
