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onˈtologize, v. [f. ontology (or its elements) + -ize.] a. intr. To play the ontologist; to deal with or apply ontology. b. trans. To treat ontologically.
1849tr. Nitzsch's Chr. Doctr. §65. 147 Whoever constructs a dogma which does not assert what God is..will afterwards endeavour to recover what has been neglected in the conceptions of his attributes, and thus ontologise in the wrong place. 1865Athenæum No. 1992. 922/1 We are expected to ontologize existence. Hence onˈtologizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1878S. H. Hodgson Philos. of Reflection I. 138 The ‘too much’ of ontologising philosophers. 1897W. M. Urban Hist. Princ. Sufficient Reason iv. 34 The ontologizing of this fundamental law is the Transcendental Logic of the Kantian Kritik. 1940Mind XLIX. 118 Some categories..are ‘ontological or ontologising’, i.e., have metaphysical import. |