Only ontological deductions, whether negative or affirmative, remain pretty much where they were then.
Ontological speculation is as barren now as then, and the problems of existence still remain insoluble.
VI> Mythical nationality in the totalitarian regime thus developed a monolithic structure which functioned as the only ontologicalframework in which the individual may acquire his own identity, his selfknowledge and understanding.
It was to Mr. MacEnery's researches that Buckland and others of the earlier modern geologists owed their most valuable data; and some of the rarest palæontological specimens in the British Museum originally belonged to his private collection.
This would seem to indicate that the 'scholastic innovation' to which he traces the origin of the ontological proof has more justification than his remarks appear to allow.
If the ontological argument is correct, the cosmological is superfluous; and if the ontological is false, the cosmological cannot possibly be true.
It is not, therefore, surprising that if we try, as is done in the ontological argument, to think existence through the pure category, we cannot mention a single mark distinguishing it from a merely logical possibility.
Kant finds it advisable to reverse the order of the proofs, and to begin by consideration of the ontological argument.
First, because in it Kant is preoccupied almost exclusively with the problems of metaphysics in the strict ontological sense, that is to say, with the problems of the Dialectic.
How very far Leibniz is willing to go on this line is shown by his acceptance of the ontological argument.
Were appearances things in themselves, freedom and causality would necessarily conflict: by means of the above ontological distinction freedom can be asserted without any diminution in the scope allowed to the causal principle.
In the ontological argument we have the most striking instance of such rationalistic exaggeration of the powers of thought.
The first step in his rejection of this principle occurs as merely incidental to his criticism of the ontological argument.
Here as elsewhere, ontological questions are viewed by Kant as soluble only to the extent to which they can be restated in logical terms.
The untenableness of the concept has been in large part concealed through a confusion between logical and ontological necessity, that is, between necessity of judgment and necessity of existence.
Passing by these remoter questions, we may give the answers of the three extreme schools to the ontological question, What is a Universal?
It was this ontological question that was so hotly and bewilderingly debated among the Schoolmen.
It will be seen that Geoffroy St. Hilaire's views were chiefly based on palæontological evidence.
This (the text published in 1806) is the first truly scientific palæontological work ever published, preceding Cuvier's Ossemens fossiles by six years.
These views we find reiterated in his later palæontological papers.
We have entered the claim that Lamarck was one of the chief founders of palæontology, and the first French author of a genuine, detailed palæontological treatise.
His first palæontological article appears to have been one entitled Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte der Vorwelt (Lichtenberg, Voigt's Magaz.
Geikie estimates very highly Guettard's labors in palæontology, saying that "his descriptions and excellent drawings entitle him to rank as the first great leader of the palæontological school of France.
It may be misleading in the numerous cases of convergence and of generalized forms which now abound in our palæontological collections.
The opposition of Fries is aimed at the method of the constructive philosophers, that of Herbart against their ontological positions, and that of Schopenhauer against their estimate of the value of existence.
The ontological argument of Descartes, that from the concept of a most perfect Being his existence follows, is correct so soon as the idea of God is shown to be possible or free from contradiction.
Oldendorp Ontological argument, the in Descartes in Spinoza in Leibnitz in Kant Opel, J.
The former distinguishes between ratio essendi and ratio cognoscendi, rejects the ontological argument, and defends determinism against Crusius on Leibnitzian grounds.
The same criticism is made by several of the later schoolmen, among others by Aquinas, and is in substance what Kant advances against all ontological proof.
Such a demonstration he presented in the Proslogion; it is his celebrated ontological proof.
For ourselves, we are convinced, with Neitzsch, that the Ontological proof is first and last; they who seek to invalidate this cut the ground from under all the rest.
The argument for the being of a God in its completeness is at once Ontological and Cosmological, Etiological and Teleological.
Mahan, in his zeal to overthrow the ontological proof of the being of God, and to vindicate for the etiological proof the sole claim to validity, has been betrayed into a similar inconsistency.
I have recently been adjured with much solemnity, to state publicly why I have "changed my opinion" as to the value of the palæontological evidence of the occurrence of evolution.
This Edition contains Twenty-five Maps, including a Palæontological and Geological Map of the British Islands, with Descriptive Letterpress, and a very copious Index.
That our palæontological collections are very imperfect, is admitted by every one.
On the poorness of our Palæontological collections.
Scarcely any palæontological discovery is more striking than the fact, that the forms of life change almost simultaneously throughout the world.
The ontological obscurity has its corresponding epistemological obscurity as to the cognitive status of knowledge of matter, which is the crux of Bergson’s philosophy.
But it is equally important, for the ontological independence of mind, that at the “dreaming” pole the tension which is the very constitution of its knowing should free mind from bodily influence.
I cannot see how perfect self-expression in one’s act makes in any degree for obliteration of ontologicaldistinctness between agent and patient, subject and object.
He looks over the whole course of the zoölogical system and of palæontological discoveries, and searches for the points where the branches and twigs of the animal pedigree of man must have diverged.
On the other hand, we may see how great was Herr von Schelling's veneration for the Ontological Proof in a long note, p.
Thus, properly speaking, Spinoza's Pantheism is merely the realisation of Descartes' Ontological Proof.
Considered by daylight, however, and without prejudice, this famous Ontological Proof is really a charming joke.
But this proof is no mere scholastic sophism, like the Ontological Proof: nor does it contain an untiring natural opponent within itself, like the Cosmological Proof, in that very same law of causality to which it owes its existence.
This is the ontological proof for the being of God.
On the basis of his Platonic realism, Anselm of Canterbury constructed the ontological proof of the being of God, that there is given in man’s reason the idea of the most perfect being to whose perfection existence also belongs.
But in the world there is no absolute perfection; we have therefore only a very perfect being; to get the most perfect, we must revert again to the ontological proof.
If now this proposition should be reversed, and the affirmation made that that being which includes all reality is absolutely necessary, then have we again the ontological proof, and the cosmological falls with this.
This premiss of the ontological proof--the most interesting proof, because it proceeds from within--expresses the inmost nature of religion.
It is true that the world springs out of a want, out of privation, but it is false speculation to make this privation an ontological being: this want is simply the want which lies in the supposed non-existence of the world.
In short, the theory shows why logical features have been made into ontological entities and into mental states.
We know with what simplicity of self-confidence the English empirical school has accounted for the ontological speculation of Plato.
It does away with the ontological gulf between ideas and facts, and by reducing both terms to a common denominator seems to facilitate fruitful discussion of the problem.
The following arguments, although not all meeting my approbation, are still of interest: The Ontological Argument has been presented in different forms.
Now, this is absurd; because a supreme and ontological expression of the infinite would be the very substance of God.
But there is a limit to ontologicaland psychological speculations of sombre hue.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ontological" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
