ontological

Without diving into some kind of ontological rumination, I think we can agree that this isn’t really about “existence.”

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.

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

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

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