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
How much ontological truth were we capable of?
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2025
Whatever Ramona wanted in the car, she’s experiencing ontological buyer’s remorse in the now.
From Salon • Mar. 31, 2025
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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