Sentence examples for ontological doctrine from inspiring English sources

This ontological doctrine is underpinned by (i) phenomenological and (ii) semantic considerations.

Empiricism for Anderson is an ontological doctrine asserting a single way of being to which we as investigators belong.

Davies (or the proponent of any other ontological account that diverges from ordinary language) may respond that the goal is not to mirror all everyday utterances, but to articulate an accurate ontological doctrine.

Some advocate that the Science of Logic be read as a first-order ontological doctrine (Doz 1987) or as a category theory that simultaneously represents structures of being and thought (Houlgate 2005b), and so as having very little to do with what has traditionally been known as logic.

Other critics (Kania 2005, Stecker 2005) believe Davies provides insufficient grounds for the adoption of a highly revisionary ontological doctrine that gives the lie to countless ordinary statements about works of art, such as "the Mona Lisa can be seen at Le Louvre".

Some commentators have argued that Aristotle's views showing similarities to the statistical model are based on some special metaphysical and ontological doctrines and not on his conception of modal terms.

However, since 'realism' is also associated with ontological doctrines (e.g., realism about universals, modal realism etc). it would be preferable to use weak realism (or, as above, naturalism) to label the ontologically uncommitted view that our classifications are often natural.

As a Jesuit priest, Des Bosses was interested in determining whether Leibniz's philosophy could provide an adequate ontological framework for the doctrine of transubstantiation.

Put simply, great artworks help establish the implicit ontology and ethics through which an historical community understands itself and its world.[6] In keeping with this (initially strange) doctrine of ontological historicity, Heidegger understands "truth" ontologically as the historically-dynamic disclosure of intelligibility in time.

His streamlining of scientific ontology to the minimum needed to keep the structure of scientific discourse intact led him to the doctrine of "ontological relativity," according to which there is no privileged category of objects to which a given scientific theory is ontologically committed.

Wyclif takes many aspects from Scotus' explanation, but strongly stresses the ontological implications of the doctrine.