Sentence examples for ontological justification from inspiring English sources
Critics reply that the principles then only have methodological or practical and not ontological justification.
Thus, granting the realistic treatment of truth values adopted by Frege, the understanding of logic as the science of truth values in fact provides logical rules with an ontological justification placing the roots of logic in a certain kind of ideal entities (see Shramko 2014).
In addition, there is a different kind of semantics, so-called modular semantics, which focuses on making more transparent the ontological status of justifications.
This claim can be seen as providing in the case of Descartes the basis for his justification of ontological dualism.
Strawson elsewhere rejects such an interpretation as "revisionary metaphysics" while metaphysics based on material things or substances is "descriptive," but these adjectives are themselves in need of a convincing justification — as long as an ontological category fully captures the inferential content of a common sense concept, it is as descriptive as any other.
There appear to be two broad kinds of justification for subjunctive conditionals, which are logical and ontological, where logical justifications are derived from the grammar and vocabulary of a specific language, such as English.
It is against this broadly naturalistic background that some philosophers have sought to provide an epistemic justification of simplicity principles, and in particular principles of ontological parsimony such as Occam's Razor.
Modal logic was used to formulate a more perspicacious version of the ontological argument, Bayesian models of probability breathed new life into inductive justifications of religious belief, rational choice theory ushered Pascal's wager once again onto the philosophical stage, and language-game analysis offered a prima facie justification of religious language.
Physicists are ontological detectives.
The ontological argument.
Was there an ontological leap?
