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ontological

adjective as in pertaining to the nature of existence

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The podcast’s namesake is inspired by the concept of ontological design—which is our capacity to actively play a role in shaping reality, being, and existence itself.

Beneath the talk is something more ontological—a picture of the racialized group as fundamentally lesser.

Corporate personhood is a legal fiction, not an ontological or soteriological fact.

If the famous ontological argument for the being of God has been refuted, we shall not, on that account, tremble for the ark.

In short, the theory shows why logical features have been made into ontological entities and into mental states.

The author asks himself what would be the proper method, the ontological or the psychological.

But this feat is far surpassed by his famous ontological proof of Theism.

Thus the argument from causation throws us back on the so-called ontological argument, whose futility has already been shown.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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