ontological

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Gödel, in fact, wrote an ontological proof in the mid 20th century that attempted to use logic to establish that God exists.

From Scientific American

Something is amiss — but is it a clerical error or an ontological riddle?

From New York Times

Even in the academy, fellow polymaths were bedazzled by the breadth of his boundless ruminations into metaphysics, modal logic, recursion theory, identity materialism and the ontological nature of numbers.

From New York Times

This ontological insecurity feeds paranoia, which Hofstadter defined as "the sense of heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy" that characterizes "more or less normal people" throughout American history.

From Salon

In “Writing in Time,” the scholar Marta Werner writes, of Dickinson’s so-called Master letters, “At their most fundamental, ontological level, we don’t know what they are.”

From New York Times