Sentence examples for ontological refers from inspiring English sources

We have not, in fact, found in the literature any single contribution that systematically addresses ontological and epistemological foundations ("ontological" refers here to the nature of being of psychiatric symptom and sign) of the psychiatric interview (although a recent paper by Stanghellini [ 67] comes close).

In contrast to universalist models of agent-identification in philosophy and psychology, the novelty of the psycho-historical framework is the inclusion of an ontological component that refers to the historical ontology of the target of agent-identification behaviours.

We can distinguish two main conceptual dimensions of the concept of svabhāva, an ontological one, which refers to a particular way in which objects exist, and a cognitive one, which refers to a way in which objects are conceptualized by human beings.

In translations of Pseudo-Dionysius, the term had a strictly ontological sense, for it refers to a being's capacity for participation in divine perfections as this relates to lower or higher beings.

Recording of macroscopic findings to standardised glossaries is also a well-used tool, whether using traditional pathology descriptors or MPath ontological terms that refer to the size, shape, distribution, colour, consistency and quantity of lesions observed (Scudamore, 2014; Schofield et al., 2012).

E.g., if Sammy is seven years old, then the sentence 'Sammy believes that snow is powdered sugar' could be true; but if this sentence is true, then (by our criterion of ontological commitment) its 'that'-clause refers to a real object; but then it cannot refer to a fact, because (obviously) there is no such thing as the fact that snow is powdered sugar.

Morganti (2009) also advocates a trope-ontological reading of QFT, which refers directly to the classification scheme of the Standard Model.

The audience member whose dialectical process of determining who Hamlet is and what/whom "Hamlet" refers to aids in the process, whereby the ontological boundaries of who Hamlet is expands with each audience member's reading and viewing of the play.

The "in itself/in something else" aspect of these two definitions captures Descartes's conception of causal independence, while the "conceived through itself/through something else" aspect refers to Descartes's conceivability-apart criterion for ontological independence.

If language metonymically refers to design by intertwining with designers in an ontological circuit of recognition that harnesses and represents that which can be conversed and said, does language itself participate in the enactment of design?

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]).