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Webster 1913 Edition
Ontological
Onˊto-log′ic-al
,Adj.
[Cf. F.
ontologique
.] Of or pertaining to ontology.
Definition 2024
ontological
ontological
English
Adjective
ontological (not comparable)
- Of, or relating to, ontology.
- 1948, W.v.O. Quine, On What There Is:
- 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.
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Derived terms
- ontological argument
- ontological shock
- preontological
Translations
of, or relating to, ontology
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