Sentence examples for ontological discussion from inspiring English sources

The method of paraphrase dominated ontological discussion throughout much of the twentieth century.

Quine's criterion of ontological commitment has dominated ontological discussion in analytic philosophy since the middle of the 20th century; it deserves to be called the orthodox view.

A third topic of ontological discussion at the 'higher' level is the nature of the elements of musical works, such as melodies, harmonies, and rhythms, and how they come together to form complex wholes.

In ontological discussions about mathematics, two views are prominent.

Since ontological discussions (including this very article) are not carried out in ordinary English or ordinary contexts, one cannot infer that there are statues from the fact that ordinary speakers can truly say 'there are statues', any more than I can infer that I am on the moon from the fact that an astronaut truly utters 'I am on the moon'.

This is in parallel with the term "art objects" in use, across aesthetics and philosophy of art, to refer to objects created by artists independent of the artform and without regard to ontological or other discussions where other terms may evoke one or another particular stance.

Although explicit discussion of ontological commitment postdates Frege's writings, an account of ontological commitment can be garnered from his defense of arithmetical platonism in The Foundations of Arithmetic (Frege 1884).

While Dombrowski's book is a useful addition to the literature because of the scope of its discussion of ontological arguments for example, it contains a chapter on Rorty on ontological arguments, and another chapter on John Taylor on ontological arguments—I think that the case that it makes for Hartshorne's argument is pretty unpersuasive.

(For discussion of ontological commitment in ordinary language, see §4).

Much of the recent discussion involving ontological dependence has focused exactly on the question of fundamentality and especially the question mentioned above, namely, whether there is something that is entirely fundamental, ontologically independent is there an ontological "bottom level"?

To complete this discussion of ontological naturalism, let us briefly consider the realm of modality, understood as the subject matter of claims that answer to something more than actuality.