ontological
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But the ontological distinction was lost at the start: events don't exist, they happen.
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
This ontological shock would be different from mere discovery or invention; it’s not even synonymous with what the philosopher Thomas Kuhn called a “paradigm shift,” when scientific consensus is amended by some revolutionary new theory.
From Slate • Jul. 24, 2023
Without the manifestation of reason in our consciousness, there could be no knowledge—neither psychological, nor, still less, ontological.
From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks
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The Fault in Our Stars
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