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Because Down syndrome is determined at conception and leaves its imprint in every cell of the person's body, it raises what philosophers call ontological questions. From Wordnik.com. [Jon Will's Aptitudes] Reference
This tradition ties the notion of ontological commitment very closely to that of a semantic value. From Wordnik.com. [Plural Quantification] Reference
Versions of the Fregean argument are sometimes stated in terms of the notion of ontological commitment. From Wordnik.com. [Platonism in the Philosophy of Mathematics] Reference
Once we clear the mind of the idea of ontological blemishes, however, we can begin to look at things pragmatically. From Wordnik.com. [Everything Is Perfect] Reference
Iago expresses his philosophy in what Harold Bloom has referred to as the ontological negation, "I am not what I am.". From Wordnik.com. [Robert David Jaffee: Human Nature, Not Mental Illness, Accounts for Fort Hood Shooting] Reference
When Heidegger, already in Being and Time, introduces the notion of ontological difference, he means to think being over against beings. From Wordnik.com. [enowning] Reference
At this point, the idea of ontological difference comes at play as a form of veiling and unveiling something about the beings that are in the world. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
Or perhaps we should sever the link between the first-order existential quantifier and the notion of ontological commitment (Azzouni 2004 and Hofweber 2000). From Wordnik.com. [Platonism in the Philosophy of Mathematics] Reference
Instead the Transpersonal Self is basically "ontological". From Wordnik.com. [The Superconscious and the Self, by Roberto Assagioli] Reference
Sacramentum Vitae: Is Anselm's "ontological" argument ontological?. From Wordnik.com. [Is Anselm's "ontological" argument ontological?] Reference
Perhaps blogging is not ready for that kind of ontological question. From Wordnik.com. [Right hand, meet left hand « BuzzMachine] Reference
A variety of possible answers to this "ontological" question suggest themselves in the light of the above account. From Wordnik.com. [Emotion] Reference
(usually called the ontological) is available; others deny this completely; while some others maintain an attitude of compromise or neutrality. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
Rather, a self-predication claim asserts that there is a special primitive kind of ontological relation between a Form (subject) and its essence (predicate). From Wordnik.com. [Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology] Reference
We're all familiar with the alternative, the kind of rule-bound, top-down classification scheme that Internet theorist Clay Shirky calls "ontological" in nature. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-09-01] Reference
In so far as I understood what I read, Heidegger says that mood is not just a cognitive or psychological concept but something much more fundamental "ontological". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference
In these cases, there is nothing sui generis that emotions are: any "ontological" question about their nature belongs derivatively to the ontology of desire and belief. From Wordnik.com. [Emotion] Reference
But if we are little likely to realise in his school, the promise of "ontological" science, of a. From Wordnik.com. [Plato and Platonism] Reference
Like them he appeals unhesitatingly to experience, and cannot find words strong enough to express his contempt for 'ontological' and scholastic methods. From Wordnik.com. [The English Utilitarians, Volume I.] Reference
Is it an ontological question or one of semantics?. From Wordnik.com. [The Week in Music: Ashlee Perseveres; What Is a Tokyo Police Club? Blind Melon Album Raises Ontological Questions] Reference
So, let's put QM back on the ontological rack for now. From Wordnik.com. [Clay Farris Naff: Sims, Suffering and God: Matrix Theology and the Problem of Evil] Reference
An interesting ontological argument comes from Anselm. From Wordnik.com. [trinityboy Diary Entry] Reference
Technically this is all that is required for the ontological argument to stand. From Wordnik.com. [trinityboy Diary Entry] Reference
I am flashing the red cape at the bull and daring him to really see me and my radical, ontological fears. From Wordnik.com. [Pica, Vestigial Tails: Fave Icky Obsessions Bad for Finding Love] Reference
In this view, voidness beyond words and concepts is not an ontological state, but rather is a level of mind. From Wordnik.com. [Affirmations, Negations, and Denumerable and Nondenumerable Ultimate Phenomena] Reference
It was not very likely that the Pasha wanted to add to his past ontological researches upon the coloured races. From Wordnik.com. [French and Oriental Love in a Harem] Reference
The mainstream Sakya tradition asserts voidness beyond words and concepts as self-voidness, an ontological state. From Wordnik.com. [Making Sense of Tantra ��� 9 Non-Gelug Variations Concerning General Anuttarayoga] Reference
However, it is only to the good that the ontological, moral and epistemological questions that you ask are being raised. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Slipstream generally deals more with epistemic, ontological or metaphysical uncertainty than social or political ideology. From Wordnik.com. [The Strange Edge: Have I Stumbled Upon a New Idear? (Blog)] Reference
But the existence of such software leads one to ask ontological questions like: Are you really taking a meeting if you're not there?. From Wordnik.com. [Can't I Work In Peace?] Reference
Therefore, the ontological category non-true existence is a mental fabrication, a metaphysical entity, merely a conceptual category. From Wordnik.com. [The Appearance and Cognition of Nonexistent Phenomena: Non-Gelug Presentation] Reference
It seems to me that these are relationships that are private not merely in popular designation, but in their ontological essence as well. From Wordnik.com. [Margaret Invades J.D.'s Studio; She Should Have Let Daddy Work] Reference
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