Sentence examples for ontological character from inspiring English sources

I describe and analyse how this field's 'drive to make' shapes its organisational, methodological, epistemological, and ontological character.

Particularly as conceptualized by German natural historians of the early nineteenth-century, "Buffonian" species were defined by the unity of common descent, and distinguished by their historical and ontological character from the taxonomic species of Linnaean natural history.

While it is true that apparent indeterminism can be generated if the state space one uses to analyze chaotic behavior is coarse-grained, this produces only an epistemic form of indeterminism leaving the ontological character of the underlying equations fully deterministic.

In others, the opposition, while still broadly ontological in character, concerns rather the ultimate nature of reality as a whole, a historically important example being the controversies generated by various forms of idealism.

The stories of Men Without Women describe characters in ontological crises whose sense of identity or meaning come from relationships with women, or from the absence of those women.

In a similar vein, Frank Jackson holds that one can assent to "Mr. Pickwick is Dickens' most famous character" without an ontological commitment to fictitious characters in general and Mr. Pickwick in particular.

In the vibhāṣā compendia and contemporaneous texts, "the explicit emphasis upon categorization per se recedes in importance as the focus shifts to clarifying the character and eventually the ontological status of individual dharmas.

The template-text of the schema is a syntactic object, a string of characters, and has the same ontological presuppositions as numerals, words, formulas, and the like.

Authors were sent a spreadsheet with the original character and taxonomic data and its ontological representation (e.g., free-text character descriptions vs. EQ phenotypes; published vs. currently accepted taxonomic names).

First, it makes explicit both the causal relations that initiate change and those that foster stability; it therefore highlights the ultimately processual character of the entities in our basic ontological framework.

These ontology metrics are used to measure ontological semantics rather than ontological structure.