ontological status
collocation in Englishmeaningsofontologicalandstatus
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ontological
adjective
uk/ɒn.təˈlɒdʒ.ɪ.kəl/us/ɑːn.toʊˈlɑː.dʒɪ.kəl/
relating ...
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status
noun
uk/ˈsteɪ.təs/us/ˈsteɪ.t̬əs/
an accepted or official position, especially in a ...
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(Definition ofontologicalandstatusfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The meaning of religious beliefs is limited to the ' phenomena of the belief, not theontologicalstatusof the belief ' (207).
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But if the object is just a hallucination, itsontologicalstatuswill be that of an imaginary object.
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Theontologicalstatusof the articles is not addressed explicitly, but it is clear that they are taken to be independent syntactic elements.
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Debate about theontologicalstatusof rationality is found mostly in philosophy.
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It was then able to develop into a constitutive resource for a new research program, and it eventually gained anontologicalstatus.
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Thus, although these techniques may have heuristic utility, none can determine theontologicalstatus of a trait or a disorder as discrete versus continuous.
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What is theontologicalstatusof the perceptual environment?
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The notion of convergent drift has strong teleological overtones, and itsontologicalstatusis dubious.
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To see this, it will be helpful to speculate over theontologicalstatusof the events described in argument (1)-(2*)-(3*).
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What, then, are we to make of theontologicalstatusof omission?
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Its major strength is that it avoids the postulation of a mechanism whoseontologicalstatusis entirely unclear.
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It considers howontologicalstatusis often a chimerical notion.
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From a philosophical point of view, much could be (and has been) written about theontologicalstatusof these categories.
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Again, it is not controversial that the content of some natures can entirely explain some sorts ofontologicalstatus.
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This does not mean shifting to spiritism or irrationality, since the divinity does not request theontologicalstatusof a spirit or of a neuron.
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The answers to these questions depend at least in part on theontologicalstatusof inactualia.
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Yet we should not confuse preferences for continua that are based on philosophical, methodological, or pragmatic concerns with theontologicalstatusof behavioral traits.
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The first claim is that individuals have the sameontologicalstatusas associations.
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That is, it is an external question to do with theontologicalstatusof entities described in the framework.
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The rock, as a rock, does not haveontologicalstatus.
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