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ontological, a.|ɒntəʊˈlɒdʒɪkəl|
[f. as prec. + -al1.]
Of or pertaining to, or of the nature of, ontology; metaphysical.
ontological argument, proof (for the existence of God): the a priori argument that the existence of the idea of God of necessity involves the objective existence of God.
1782V. Knox Ess. (1819) III. cxl. 107 Perplexing himself with ontological inquiries into the nature of angels. 1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. I. v. 96 Any ontological or metaphysical science not contained in such..psychology was but a web of abstractions. 1825― Aids Refl. (1861) 139 We pass out of the cosmological proof, the proof à posteriori, and from the facts, into the ontological, or the proof à priori, and from the Idea. 1856Dove Logic Chr. Faith v. i. §1. 255, I am is the indubitable of my ontological consciousness. 1877E. Caird Philos. Kant ii. xv. 552 The ontological argument for the being of God.
b. Path. (See quot.)
1876tr. Wagner's Gen. Pathol. (ed. 6) 5 This conception, according to which disease was a particular entity which lodged in the body, was called ontological.
Hence ontoˈlogically adv., in the manner of, or in relation to, ontology.
1846in Worcester. 1859G. Bush tr. Swedenborg's Doctr. & Statem. (1875) 9 What are these things, ontologically considered? |