Epistemological positions are to knowledge as ontological positions are to what?

Epistemological positions describe how we come to know things, so they are about knowledge. Ontological positions, on the other hand, describe the nature of reality itself—what exists and how it exists. Thus, ontological positions are to reality (or being) what epistemological positions are to knowledge. For example, a realist ontological view holds that a rich, mind‑independent world exists, whereas a nominalist view claims that only particular objects exist and abstract concepts are just names. This analogy shows that epistemology deals with the justification of beliefs, while ontology deals with the kinds of things that actually exist.