ontological
adjUK /ˌɒntəˈlɒd͡ʒɪkəl/
Etymology From ontology + -ical.
1
Of or relating to ontology.
- A curious thing about the ontological problem is its simplicity. It can be put in three Anglo-Saxon monosyllables: ‘What is there?’ It can be answered, moreover, in a word—‘Everything’—and everyone will accept this answer as true.1948, W.v.O. Quine, On What There Is:
- Applying a critical discourse analysis to MM, this thesis argues that far-right media portrays any challenge to the status quo, be it demographic, political, cultural, or social, as threatening to ontological security by utilizing a Positive Self and Negative Other dichotomy.2020 May 3, Julien Morein, “Murdoch Murdoch: A Case Study in Threats to Ontological Security in Far-Right Propaganda”, in Arcadia University, archived from the original on 24 Apr 2021, page 2:
2
Of or pertaining to the nature of being or existence.
- Such is the human ontological imagination, and such is the convincingness of what it brings to birth. Unpicturable beings are realized, and realized with an intensity almost like that of an hallucination.1902, William James, “Lecture 3”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC:
- Derived terms
- nonontological, ontological argument, ontologically, ontological proof, ontological shock, preontological, unontological
- Related terms
- ontic