Ontological

Ontological reductionism takes two different forms: token ontological reductionism and type ontological reductionism.

Other ontological topics Ontological formations The concept of 'ontological formations' refers to formations of social relations understood as dominant ways of living.

Mathematics, as logic's ontological correlate, also has a similar stratum, a "morphology of formal-ontological categories".

Ontological reductionism Ontological reductionism is the belief that reality is composed of a minimum number of kinds of entities or substances.

Philosophy of logic and mathematics Husserl believed that truth-in-itself has as ontological correlate being-in-itself, just as meaning categories have formal-ontological categories as correlates.

Whatever process one uses to determine the ontological commitments of a theory, that does not prescribe what ontological commitments one should have.

Anglicans have never understood that ordination involves some imagined ontological change with the laying on of hands to suddenly make an ordinary Christian into an Old Testament-like sacrificing priest for the people of God.

The epic deals with ontological questions of morality and ethics and the consideration of what is right and what is not.

James does not embrace the ontological, epistemological or teleological arguments for creation, neither doers he refute them; but they all find a place in his paradigm.

For rationalism, the ontological unit of analysis is the individual, whose strategic interaction forms the basis of political explanation.

Lobbing grenades into the sanctuary of a church (or a mosque, or a temple) is nothing short of attempting to shatter this ontological security — an attempt at pulling the rug from under the feet of those who believe.

The units experience the threat of abandonment, and individuals within feel ontological anxieties.

If Rod doesn’t think an ontological de-conversion happens for someone leaving Orthodoxy for evangelicalism, then we might consider dropping the de-conversion language altogether.

The post raised the ontological questions at the heart of the deepfake debate: Does a naked image of Person A become a naked image of Person B if Person B’s face is superimposed in a seamless and untraceable way?

Accordingly, concepts (as senses) have an ontological status (Morgolis:7).

According to the principle of ontological parsimony, he holds that we do not need to allow entities in all ten of Aristotle's categories; we thus do not need the category of quantity, as the mathematical entities are not "real".

According to Whitehead, an actual entity must earn its philosophical status of fundamental ontological priority by satisfying several philosophical criteria, as follows.

A distinction between such categories, in making the categories or applying them, is called an ontological distinction.

Almost all accounts of emergentism include a form of epistemic or ontological irreducibility to the lower levels.

Alternatively, in ontological dualism, the world is divided into two overarching categories.