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ontic, a.|ˈɒntɪk| [f. Gr. ὄν, ὀντ- being (see onto-) + -ic.] Of or pertaining to knowledge of the existence or structure of being in a given entity (but see quots.). Hence ˈontical a., ˈontically adv.
1949W. Brock Heidegger's Existence & Being 31 One important difference between science and learning on the one hand and philosophy on the other seems to him [sc. Heidegger] to consist in the fact that every kind of scientific and scholarly knowledge was concerned with a limited set of objects, of what he called ‘ontic’. 1952Mind LXI. 131 The final outcome of ontically objective values. 1954Scottish Jrnl. Theol. VII. 47 We have to recognise the ontic basis of our faith and obedience. 1957M. Feagins tr. H. Kunz in P. A. Schilpp Philos. K. Jaspers ii. xiii. 509 It is unavoidable to use the empirical, objectifiable data of knowledge (biological or psychological, for example) as guides to an explication of the ontic character of man as an active, experiencing and self-understanding being. 1960W. V. Quine Word & Object iii. 120 Of the three evident advantages of ‘ontic’ over ‘ontological’, in the special sense of ‘as to what there is’, brevity is the least. 1962Macquarrie & Robinson tr. Heidegger's Being & Time i. 31 Ontological inquiry is concerned primarily with Being; ontical inquiry is concerned primarily with entities and the facts about them. Ibid., The ontical inquiry of the positive sciences. 1969A. Richardson Dict. Christian Theol. 241/2 R. Bultmann..argues that what is ontologically a human possibility, i.e. something which it is possible for men to know, is ontically actualised in Christian faith... It is much discussed today whether religious language..possesses ontic significance. 1970J. W. Yolton Locke & Compass of Hum. Und. i. 30 The more typical passages find Locke denying any ontic sense of ‘kinds’. 1975Times Lit. Suppl. 25 July 848/2 Before you can elicit the ontic commitment of a statement, you must indulge in what R. G. Collingwood contemptuously described as the scholastic pedantry of reducing to logical form. 1976D. E. Linge tr. Gadamer's Philos. Hermeneutics xi. 203 Anonymous intentionalities, that is, conceptual intentions in which something is intended and posited as ontically valid. |