ontological
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With spacetime, it's applied uncritically to a mathematical description of happenings -- turning a model into an ontological theory on the nature of being.
From Science Daily • Nov. 2, 2025
Whatever Ramona wanted in the car, she’s experiencing ontological buyer’s remorse in the now.
From Salon • Mar. 31, 2025
The premise, and what’s done with it, paint “Laid” into a moral and ontological corner, which it addresses temporarily by literally opening a door.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2024
Without diving into some kind of ontological rumination, I think we can agree that this isn’t really about “existence.”
From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2024
Of course, just as the human mind does not constitute but only apprehends reality, so the human mind does not constitute the ontological truth of reality, but only apprehends it.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
