The purpose of this paper is to develop an ontological foundation for future studies, based in part on integrating some prior albeit incomplete work in this area.,This manuscript is based on a literature review, as well as on conceptual and theoretical enhancements from this subject field.,As the future does not exist (it is always something yet to come), the ontological foundations for studying the future must be based on the current reality of the physical, biological and social-psychological worlds of experience and ideas. From this basis, 10 postulates are provided that are based on that current reality and are applied to studying the future. Thus, by characterizing the current reality and how it is understood by people, meaningful statements about the future are possible.,For each ontological postulate, one or more implications for the study of the future are provided as guidelines for practice.,This manuscript integrates and builds on prior offerings about ontological concerns into a comprehensive framework that legitimates and focuses the practices of studying the future.

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研究未来的本体论基础

本文的目的是为将来的研究奠定一个本体论基础，部分是基于对该领域先前已完成但尚未完成的工作进行整合。本文基于文献综述以及该主题的概念和理论改进由于未来不存在（永远都是未来），因此研究未来的本体论基础必须基于经验，思想的物理，生物和社会心理学世界的当前现实。在此基础上，提供了10种基于当前现实的假设，并将其应用于研究未来。因此，通过表征当前现实以及人们如何理解现实，就可以对未来进行有意义的陈述。，对于每种本体论假设，