Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In the manner of ontology; by means of or in accordance with ontology.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an ontological manner.
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- adverb In an
ontological manner.
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Examples
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˜ontologically dependent™ in which it is true to say that Socrates's life is ontologically dependent upon him, but not vice versa.
Ontological Dependence Lowe, E. Jonathan 2009
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It turns out that even after all efforts to eradicate the notion ontologically (and in every other manner possible), all people, of all persuasions, actually do matter.
A Note to Capitalism's Economists: It's all About the Consumer -- Period 2008
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(e.g., realism about universals, modal realism etc.) it would be preferable to use weak realism (or, as above, naturalism) to label the ontologically uncommitted view that our classifications are often natural.
Natural Kinds Bird, Alexander 2008
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My suggestion (in response to art) is to say that only a person who has "ontologically" experienced salvation through Christ is a believer, and this may or may not have a noticable affect on her life (transformation) and / or her belief (theology).
WordPress.com News 2008
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Roughly, Unity is interpreted 1) ontologically; 2) naturalistically ” in terms of ordering principle (s), force (s) or plans; 3) substantively ” where this is distinguished from "ontologically"; and 4) genealogically ” in terms of origin.
Pantheism Levine, Michael 2007
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Priests are Christ's servants, in the sense that their existence, ontologically configured to Him, have an essentially relational character.
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They are also ontologically parasitic, in the sense that they depend upon other, material entities, for their existence.
Archive 2009-04-01 Gordon McCabe 2009
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It might come as something of a surprise to Ross Brawn and his colleagues at Williams and Toyota, but the double-decker diffusers used by their respective Formula 1 teams, depend for their efficacy upon ontologically parasitic immaterial particulars.
Archive 2009-04-01 Gordon McCabe 2009
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Are the white collars doing something conceptually or ontologically DIFFERENT from the blue collars?
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Priests are Christ's servants, in the sense that their existence, ontologically configured to Him, have an essentially relational character.
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