Ontology Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Ontology.
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“Metaphysics”
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“Ontological argument”
“One is what one is, partly at least.”
“ontology”
“Wikipedia: Ontology”
“Ontology recapitulates philology.”
“Wikicommons: Ontology”
“[M]ethodological naturalism would then lead to extreme conservatism about ontology: no new entities should be introduced in science.”
“Science doesn’t give authentically access to the Real in the ontological meaning of the word, but only to the links between phenomena.”
“Ontology Encyclopædia Britannica (1911).”
“The genius of culture is to create an ontological system so compelling that what is inside and outside of a person are viewed as of a piece, no seams and patches noticeable.”
“Logic and Ontology by Thomas Hofweber, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (October 11, 2017)”
“Beings can be determined in their being without the explicit concept of the meaning of being having to be already available. If this were not so there could not have been as yet any ontological knowledge.”
“It is enough that things exist for God to be unavoidable. Let us but grant to a bit of moss or the smallest ant its due nature as an ontological reality, and we can no longer escape the terrifying hand that made us.”
“Descartes, by means of intuition and abstraction, seeks to establish the ultimate features of things as they are in themselves; that is, he seeks to establish an objective ontology of natures that compose material bodies.”
“How are we to adjudicate among rival ontologies? Certainly the answer is not provided by the semantical formula "To be is to be the value of a variable"; this formula serves rather, conversely, in testing the conformity of a given remark or doctrine to a prior ontological standard.”
“Eliminative materialism is the thesis that our common sense conception of psychological phenomena constitutes a radically false theory, a theory so fundamentally defective that both the principles and ontology of that theory will eventually be displaced, rather than smoothly reduced, by completed neuroscience.”