ontological

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Speakers also delved into the consciousness of primates, spiders and plants, the ontological status of virtual reality and dreams and the implications of dementia and other pathological states.

From Scientific American

The epistemological and ontological nihilism of the closed cube argument frankly implodes upon itself.

From Washington Times

Gödel, in fact, wrote an ontological proof in the mid 20th century that attempted to use logic to establish that God exists.

From Scientific American

Something is amiss — but is it a clerical error or an ontological riddle?

From New York Times

Even in the academy, fellow polymaths were bedazzled by the breadth of his boundless ruminations into metaphysics, modal logic, recursion theory, identity materialism and the ontological nature of numbers.

From New York Times