Sentence examples for ontological standing from inspiring English sources
Forms are therefore supervenient on matter, and have no ontological standing independent of it.
Whether structured composites have any independent ontological standing depends on the status of their organizing forms.
He declares repeatedly and emphatically that despite being more than and different from the sentences that express them, dicta have no ontological standing whatsoever.
Wherever possible, it tries, instead, to incorporate them into a defensible conception of human nature that leaves the work of the sciences standing, though not necessarily within the kind of ontological framework that scientists may think is required.
As Sartrean existentialism frees itself from the limitations of its post-war adolescence and shows its mature psychological, ontological and ethical face to the new century, it enters with adult standing into the ongoing conversation that we call Western philosophy.
