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Grammar : Adj
Spell : on-tl-oj-i-kuh l
Phonetic Transcription : ˌɒn tlˈɒdʒ ɪ kəl



Définition of ontological

Origin :
  • 1782, from ontology + -ical. Related: Ontologically
  • adj pertaining to the nature of existence
Example sentences :
  • The Ontological Argument has been presented in different forms.
  • Extract from : « Was Man Created? » by Henry A. Mott
  • There is a type of realism which illustrates the opposite or ontological method.
  • Extract from : « John Dewey's logical theory » by Delton Thomas Howard
  • What is the ontological relationship between these three factors?
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 » by Various
  • Associated words: ontology, metaphysics, ontological, ontologist.
  • Extract from : « Putnam's Word Book » by Louis A. Flemming
  • The first is the physico-theological argument, the second the cosmological, the third the ontological.
  • Extract from : « The Critique of Pure Reason » by Immanuel Kant
  • It is through this door that ontological belief was supposed to enter.
  • Extract from : « John Stuart Mill; His Life and Works » by Herbert Spencer, Henry Fawcett, Frederic Harrison and Other Distinguished Authors
  • The general requirement that predicates must conform to their subject, they translate into an ontological theory.
  • Extract from : « Essays in Radical Empiricism » by William James
  • It was not very likely that the Pasha wanted to add to his past ontological researches upon the coloured races.
  • Extract from : « French and Oriental Love in a Harem » by Mario Uchard
  • It is so with our consciousness of God; that is an ontological fact, a fact given in the nature of man.
  • Extract from : « Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 2 (of 3) » by Theodore Parker
  • The cosmic, ontological, or transcendent; finding God as the infinite Reality outside and beyond us.
  • Extract from : « The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day » by Evelyn Underhill

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