Sentence examples for ontological illusion from inspiring English sources

Yet, despite advances in these fields, controversy persists between Luce Irigaray's view that gender is an ontological reality and Judith Butler's contention that it is an ontological illusion.

(Cf. Voltolini (2003, 2006).) Everett's line of attack is interesting and innovative, and (given the worries expressed about language-focused arguments) in some ways a model of how an antirealist should really pursue the battle against what she believes are ontological illusions.

Some biologists and philosophers have argued that the introduction of informational and semantic concepts has had a bad effect on biology, that it fosters various kinds of explanatory illusions and distortions, perhaps along with ontological confusion.

At bottom, this is a pessimistic stance: if there is a prima facie structural resemblance between a mode of speech or thought and some ontological category, it is inferred, pessimistically, that the ontological category is an illusion, a matter of us projecting the structure of our language or thought into the world.

This is an ontological truism worthy of Plato: Your preference for "Patriot Games" or "Air Force One" is an illusion; the hotness of "Working Girl" is reality.

Physicists are ontological detectives.

The ontological argument.

Was there an ontological leap?

It's an ontological thing.

Sheer illusion.

And also paying an ontological debt.