For example, Husserl will have us strip away our pregiven assumptions, ending in ontic meaning. From Wordnik.com. [Aiguy's Computer] Reference
And in his recent writings, as the actual--or, in his Heideggerian terminology, the "ontic"--possibility of revolution recedes, its "ontological" importance has increased. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference
Heidegger explicates the concepts of "ontic" and "ontological" through a consideration of science in section 3 of Being and Time. From Wordnik.com. [enowning] Reference
All this talk about "ontic" and "espistemic" is interesting, but are we forgetting there is an underlying reality being spoken of here?. From Wordnik.com. [WordPress.com News] Reference
Ah, but the ontic sense is what seems so much more mysterious. From Wordnik.com. [enowning] Reference
Soloveitchik only hints at the nature of this “ontic contrast.”. From Wordnik.com. [Soloveitchik, Rabbi Joseph Dov.] Reference
I'd venture the ontic is more mysterious because there's so much more of it. From Wordnik.com. [enowning] Reference
But it is precisely this distinction that is undermined by the ontic principle. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-08-01] Reference
The instance aspect is the fundamental ontic unit; the repeatable aspect is conceptual. From Wordnik.com. [Tropes] Reference
This claim itself is an ontic proposition that can be tested and could have been refuted. From Wordnik.com. [Intelligent Design belittles God, - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
In the ontic variant of structural realism nature seems to be reduced to mathematical objects. From Wordnik.com. [Quantum Field Theory] Reference
The basic is what Campbell speaks of as “the ontic constitution of the cosmos” (1990: 24-5). From Wordnik.com. [Monism] Reference
In a naively ontic sense: something higher than Being itself, which, moreover, still is Being itself. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference
Perhaps other methods are also self-consistent and give reliable results concerning ontic propositions. From Wordnik.com. [Intelligent Design belittles God, - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
For one should not confuse the prospects for conceptual analysis with the prospects for ontic reduction. From Wordnik.com. [The Metaphysics of Causation] Reference
(In contrast, an ontic structural realist holds that the structure of reality is the only thing which exists). From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference
Ascetic practices in this life become a means to attain self-consciousness of the ontic luminosity of the soul. From Wordnik.com. [Suhrawardi] Reference
Put briefly, the ontological versus ontic difference between primary and secondary causality was lost sight of. From Wordnik.com. [A John Milbank paper] Reference
Spacetime coincidences play this privileged ontic role because they are invariant and, thus, univocally determined. From Wordnik.com. [Einstein's Philosophy of Science] Reference
Slavery, if you think this through, forcing yourself not to flinch, is the social correlate of a deeper, ontic wound. From Wordnik.com. [Middle Passage] Reference
And with so much revealed we are close to rediscovery of Husserl's ontic meaning that follows the reactivation of history. From Wordnik.com. [Ambiguity Tolerance] Reference
If one takes such paraphrases as capable of lifting ontic commitment, then one is in danger of lifting all ontic commitments. From Wordnik.com. [Monism] Reference
All information-theoretic inequalities (such as "new" information/information) are expressed in an epistmic/ontic distinction. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a popular anti-ID argument] Reference
First, as Heidegger would have put it, the survival of the being-human of humans cannot depend on an ontic decision of humans. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-10-01] Reference
In the latter approach, the notions of implicate and explicate order mirror the distinction between ontic and epistemic domains. From Wordnik.com. [Quantum Approaches to Consciousness] Reference
Perhaps the best way to distinguish them is via a reference to the philosophical distinction between ontological and ontic levels. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-06-01] Reference
The origin of the ontological difference is that in terms of which it is bound, namely the factical necessity of its ontic beginning. From Wordnik.com. [enowning] Reference
The relationship between ontic structural realism and ante rem structuralism has been explored by Psillos (2006a), Busch (2003), French. From Wordnik.com. [Structural Realism] Reference
That universal intellect, for all its ontic priority, is the last of the four intellects that Farabi formally discusses in the treatise. From Wordnik.com. [Arabic and Islamic Psychology and Philosophy of Mind] Reference
I don't doubt that Adorno's misreading of Heidegger led the left into an ontic wilderness, but Adorno is not solely to blame here either. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference
Also, the distinction between ontic and epistemic was very helpful. From Wordnik.com. [WordPress.com News] Reference
The Ontological Principle would thus direct us squarely to the ontic. From Wordnik.com. [Larval Subjects .] Reference
Lots of inter-ontic relations turn out badly for all entities involved. From Wordnik.com. [Larval Subjects .] Reference
Here, at least, we get some engagement with the ontic in his account of intensities. From Wordnik.com. [Larval Subjects .] Reference
If this problem between the ontic and the epistemic is as complicated as stated, then what does that do to evangelism?. From Wordnik.com. [WordPress.com News] Reference
In other words, for Harman, the reflexive "distortion" of the object is a ubiquitous feature of all inter-ontic or inter-object relations. From Wordnik.com. [Larval Subjects .] Reference
Kant is committed to the thesis that mind is included in every inter-ontic relation, thereby subordinating or shackling all beings to mind. From Wordnik.com. [Larval Subjects .] Reference
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