His rejection of the ontological argument caused other Catholic theologians to also reject the argument.
The epistemic-ontological confusion causes the immaterial ātman to equate itself falsely with the activities and material world of the buddhi.
Frequently, this causes ontological inconsistencies within the ontology and incompatibilities between different ontologies.
Nonetheless our deductive inability is not seen as cause for ontological misgivings; there is no "money-matter" problem.
Some agent causalists have insisted that substance causation is actually quite widespread and that we have good reason to embrace a diverse causal ontology which allows that members of various ontological categories can be causes (Steward 2012: ch. 8 is a recent example).
In this context, Aquinas makes considerable use of his ontological distinction between univocal causes, whose effects are fully like them, and non-univocal causes, whose effects are not fully like them.
In practice, however, philosophers often describe the error theory in the latter ontological manner, and this causes no obvious confusion.
A first principle, Walbridge notes, "is a form of the principle of sufficient reason, 'the principle of the most noble contingency' which asserts that nothing can exist without a cause of higher ontological level" (PI, 90.1 92.25).
The three main types of arguments are the cosmological or first cause argument, the ontological argument, and the teleological or design argument.
In other words, Avicenna considers the necessitation thesis to entail that the priority of cause to effect is ontological, not temporal (Marmura 1981a).
And the uncle's insistence that Knausgaard had invented material to embellish his story (later shown to be a false accusation) made him question his own memory and motivations, which in turn caused a kind of crippling ontological doubt.
