Sentence examples for ontological notion from inspiring English sources

The last sentence of Porphyry's text ties the ontological notion of an individual to a collection of properties, and as a corollary, it can be taken to tie the notion of an individual term to a descriptive phrase.

Since here we are considering ontic conditionals usually what is minimized is some ontological notion like the distance between the actual world and a set of worlds where the antecedent is true.

It seems that the different accounts attempting to give a uniform linguistic function to 的 de 'DE' can in fact be unified by the conceptual motivation that 的 de 'DE' is a linguistic expression of the ontological notion of perdurant in Chinese.

This is a problem that arises from the specific ontological notion of self-connectedness that BFO's definition of 'object' refers to (a problem that has been noticed before; e.g. [30]).

Buddhist environmentalists argue, furthermore, that ontological notions such as Buddha-nature or Dharma-nature (e.g., buddhakaya, tathagatagarbha, dharmakaya, dharmadhatu) provide a basis for unifying all existent entities in a common sacred universe, even though the tradition privileges human life vis-a-vis spiritual realization.

It also suggests that manipulations of linguistic expressions of ontological notions may reflect how ontological notions evolve.

Meinong distinguishes two ontological notions: subsistence and existence.

In the way of Chao's (1955) seminal paper on Chinese logical relations, this paper focuses on how two foundational ontological notions find expression in the Chinese language.

I have shown in this paper that the Chinese classifier system offers robust linguistic expression of the ontological notions of endurant vs. perdurant.

In addition, the aim of this paper is not to describe all linguistic variations, but to capture the systemicity of the expression of the ontological notions, as well as the robustness of the conceptual motivation of the linguistic system.

However, as I have shown that a linguistic system such as Chinese can encode (and manipulate) basic ontological concepts, the notion of a formal ontological system existing a priori and independent of language usages needs to be challenged, as the results herein demonstrate that ontological notions can be verified by their expressions in linguistic systems.