ontological
/ɒntəˈlɒdʒɪk(ə)l
/adjective
1Relating to the branch of metaphysics dealing with the nature of being: ontological arguments...
- Along the way, she considers the ontological paradox of self-invention and quotes Foucault.
- Platonism is the intellectual understanding of the ontological status of the good.
- First, the religious concepts violate certain expectations from ontological categories.
2Showing the relations between the concepts and categories in a subject area or domain: an ontological database an ontological framework for integrating and conceptualizing diverse forms of information...
- Our ontological classification scheme provides actionable hormonal treatment strategies for all subtypes of human breast cancer.
- Work on ontological categories has attracted interest in information science and the biomedical sciences, where ontologies are used to organize the knowledge represented in information systems.
- As a result, the linguistic and ontological framework underpinning his analysis is a mess.
Derivatives
ontologically
- Ontologically speaking, God does exist and therefore can also possess knowledge.
- Computer systems may not be able to ontologically reproduce physical entities that have mass.
- Priesthood essentially and ontologically changes an ordinary, sinful man into another Christ.
- Aetolian Confederacy
- Aetolian League
- aetosaur
- AEU
- aeviternal
- aeviternally
- aeviternity
- aevum
- AF
- af-
- a fact of life
- AFAIC
- AFAIK
- afaint
- a fair cow
- a fair deal
- a fair suck (or shake)of the sav
- afakasi
- afanc
- afar
- afara
- Afars and Issas, French Territory of the
- a fast (or quick) buck
- a fate worse than death
- AFB