The word
"ontological" refers to something related to existence, reality, or the nature of being. It is often used to discuss philosophical concepts and ideas about what really exists and what makes something exist.
Full definition
If all «things are possible, there would then be a sufficient and rational accounting for the novelty within the universe in full accordance with the fundamental
ontological principle of the categoreal scheme; the reason for novelty rests within actuality.
The question of
ontological status is exemplified as follows: Is the A-B nexus itself an entity?
«19 The death of God is now seen
in ontological as well as existential terms.
What function in the theological enterprise does transcendence as
ontological reality have for our workaday world?
Consider that some translators can't help but step into interpretation, and have the Christ hasten
with ontological significance of English capitalization to, «fear the One who, after He has killed, has authority to cast into hell.»
This software calculated the enrichment or depletion of individual
ontological categories with genes that had changed expression and identified cellular pathways potentially relevant to hypoxia.
Of course, process theology is associated with the work of Whitehead, and Whitehead has been severely criticized by Buchler for his arbitrary use of a principle of
ontological priority.4 Yet there seems to be nothing in the nature of process theology which requires that some entities be considered «more real» than others.
In us, matter is brought into direct synthesis with spiritual mind
from ontological (and indeed biological) necessity.
But if we do good, and avoid evil, we can come close to a heaven like existence, if
not ontological.
The traditional academic division of disciplines is governed by this sense of
ontological discontinuity, and so biology departments have been separated administratively from those of chemistry and physics.
«It is the mind of God which imposes
ontological unity in multiplicity upon the formulations of complex being.
Today, those who are too quick to find
ontological claims in the phenomenological explorations celibate gay Christians should take more care to understand the kind of claim they are dealing with before they rush to condemn it.
At Ontological Geek, Michael Evenden explored coming to games as a complete outsider later in life.
There will be an actual
ontological change in the universe, a change that occurred in a particularized form in Jesus and is now becoming universalized in the modern world.
Giving ontological status to the term «life» or «will - to - live,» the phrase «reverence for life» becomes a capsulized expression for Schweitzer's «mysticism of reality» or «ethical pantheism.»
By way of contrast, in a static atemporal pattern of thinking, in which the context does not affect essentially the nature of being, it is indifferent to a given being into which
ontological dimensions of reality - in - process it is placed.
Jesus is presented as the fulfilment of natural human potentialities, with his «divinity» understood not in
ontological terms but in relation to his divinely inspired response to God by which he became the brightest manifestation of God's action in human life.
The aim was to explore human contemporary conditions and create dialogue with reference to them using body, space and objects as
ontological concepts.
It was still necessary to call into question Husserl's scientific ideal, especially in the sense of a final justification or a self - founding of the transcendental ego, to discover in the finite
ontological condition of self - understanding the unsurpassable limit of this scientific ideal.
Michael Govan continues, «The artist's appropriation of commercial light fixtures — a quintessential product of our highly - industrialized society — is presented not as a prescription for a revolutionary future culture as Tatlin's was, but to
ontological fact; tangible and temporal» (M. Govan, «Irony and Light,» in M. Govan & T. Bell (eds.)
Klaus Weber is an artist who strays through multiple disciplines and appears to take on various professional roles — from engineer to anthropologist, from bee - keeper to anatomist — in his ongoing exploration of natural and socio - political forces, questioning our social, physical, psychological and
ontological relationships with the environments we live in.
In place of accepting a basic
ontological dualism between «act» and «potency» as distinct metaphysical principles at the root of being, he suggests that for material existence the concepts of «act» and «potency» or «matter» and «form» can be seen as two aspects of just one single complex of contingency.
If the former, then Hartshorne seems guilty of a rare instance of incoherence by leaving
ontological necessity and causality in the contingent order as «mutually irrelevant, as whales to forest trees» (CSPM 41).
«Drawing ethical oughts out of
ontological order May leave us all bristling painted into a corner If this finding new gaps for housing divinity Should prove a pursuit falling short of infinity.»
Liberalism thus culminates in two
ontological points: the liberated individual and the controlling state.
Polkinghorne's unfavorable view of ordinary theologians may be linked to the understanding of
ontological truth that I described earlier.
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