In this perspective, a CA-based physics may provide a neat and elegant ontological picture: one that would be describable in a first-order formal theory including the axioms of standard mereology (even of mereotopology, as presented e.g. in Casati, Varzi 1999), and whose theorems would be computable in finite time (see Berto, Rossi, Tagliabue 2010, pp. 73 87).
This approach asks for an analysis of the ontological pictures of the two ingredient theories of quantum gravity, so that their consistency (the consistency of the resulting synthesis) can be properly assessed.
On the deflationary nominalist picture, ontological commitment is not signaled in any special way in natural (or even formal) language.
This picture of ontological emergence is widely regarded as the standard formulation of ontological emergence, of which Broad's (1925) account of emergence and more recent accounts such as Van Cleve (1990), Kim (1990, 1999, 2006a), O'Connor (1994), McLaughlin (1997), and Wilson (1999, 2002) are examples.
Though supervenience emergentism remains the received picture of ontological emergence (Crane 2001a, Kim 2006a), several questions about its consistency with major emergentist tenets has pushed emergentists toward alternative conceptions of ontological emergence.
We draw ontological boundaries that frame the picture of complex reality: knowledge boundaries.
Therefore, it provides an intuitive, easy-to-use and immediately available service, which allows to draw a clear picture of the ontological terms represented in a list of biological objects annotated to ontology, for any biomedical ontology.
The full list of these genes is shown in Additional File 1. DAVID analysis did not bring more light to the picture, yielding only three ontological clusters under medium stringency.
Moulines' criticism that this picture of reduction lacks an ontological link to rule out arbitrary reductions (Moulines 1984) reflects the idea that bridge-laws shouldn't be given a purely structural interpretation.
"The Ontological Status of the Photographic Image".
Leibniz' goal there is presciently like the work of contemporary string theorists i.e., to look behind the scientific picture and lay out the still-deeper ontological and metaphysical nature of reality.
