ontologism

Example Sentences

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I’m sure a lot of these armchair ontologists will say Adjunct Commuter Weekly isn’t a “real” newspaper.

From Slate • Sep. 4, 2015

Anon she is engrossed with the elder Italian poets, from Berni down to Pulci and Politian; then with Locke and the ontologists; then with the opera omnia of Sir William Temple.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 438 Volume 17, New Series, May 22, 1852 by Chambers, Robert

Positive science deals only with phenomena, yet you are foolish enough to strive to be ontologists and to deal with noumena. 

From Martin Eden by London, Jack