ontic
adjEtymology From Ancient Greek ὄν (ón, “being, existing, essence”) (stem ὄντ- (ónt-)) + -ic.
1
Ontological.
2
Pertaining to being, as opposed to pertaining to a theory of it (which would be ontological).
- My descriptions are ontical—addressing the world we inhabit, the what and where and how and why of objects therein; my questions are not ontological in the sense of struggling (vainly) to answer the question of the being of things tout court.2015, Bill Brown, Other Things, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN:
- Related terms
- ontological, ontologist, ontology