(n.) That department of the science of metaphysics which investigates and explains the nature and essential properties and relations of all beings, as such, or the principles and causes of being.
Example Sentences:
(1) Interpretation of PS places it at the border between the clinical psychiatric fields and the ontological problems of humanity and leads to the understanding not only of the morbid psychic phenomenon in general and of the suicide in particular, but also to the major reasons of the human being who is trapped critical circumstances.
(2) Ontological studies of thymic tissue demonstrated that the epitope recognized by this MAb was expressed before Day 14 of gestation, although the restricted subcapsular and medullar expression of 8.1.1 was not apparent until sometime after birth.
(3) This essay eschews reductionist, dualist, and identity-theory attempts to resolve this problem, and offers an ontology--"monistic dual-aspect interactionism"--for the biopsychosocial model.
(4) The sequential topographic development of nerve preceding NSE-taste bud cells in precise morphological locations, suggests that the ingress of precursor NSE-taste bud cells and their subsequent differentiation are contingent upon initial neural derived ontologic signals.
(5) This ontologic sequence was not affected by T cell depletion or antigen presentation on adult macrophages.
(6) Rather, such peritoneal invaginations and endometriosis may be ontologically related to a separate codevelopmental factor.
(7) Based on a phenomenological analysis of psychotic interpretation of the world concretism is supposed to represent an important mechanism of schizophrenic thinking: Schizophrenic concretism is the result of an ontological regression of cognitive functioning onto the archaic level of actional representation.
(8) Stopping here, though, is actually the action of a fool – because this conclusion naturally opens up further counterarguments to sandwich ontology that sandwich reactionaries invariably make in bad faith.
(9) It suggests the need for greater attention to subjective self-evaluated self-reported components of health status, specified here as "ontological" health.
(10) Philosophical-ontological questions about man's nature are answered implicitly in clinical practice.
(11) A dynamic, an ontological and a relational illness conception are depicted.
(12) Others have engaged the Hot Dog-Sandwich debate in the past, but they have not gone far enough in exploring the scope of sandwich ontology.
(13) In her essay, Mill criticizes Iglesias's Aristotelian analysis as being too static and abstract to use in an ontological assessment of human structure and development from fertilization to birth.
(14) An EA rosette technique is used to study ontological development and organ distribution of Fc(IgG) receptor-bearing lymphoid cells in normal CS White Leghorn chickens, and in OS chickens with spontaneous autoimmune thyroiditis.
(15) Three experiments assessed the possibility, suggested by Quine (1960, 1969) among others, that the ontology underlying natural language is induced in the course of language learning, rather than constraining learning from the beginning.
(16) The possibility of ontological reduction hinges on whether chromosomes have other important constituents than molecules.
(17) The concept is seen to arise as a consequence of the development of the modern ontological view of disease, the shift in the role ascribed to the nervous system and theoretical developments involving the explanation of psychoses through a descriptive language of psychopathology and bodily states.
(18) Five categories of questions provide a framework for the analysis: ontological, anthropological, ontical, epistemological, and pedagogical.
(19) Data discussed herein supports the contention that synaptic connections serve a central role in triggering the ontological cascade.
(20) But if we accept that a neat meal package of either hinged or wrapping breads or the classic two-slice model are the ontological bases for a sandwich, suddenly we must introduce new food to that classification – arepas, banh mi, a disruptive new egg roll out of Shanghai the size of a football or an infant.
Worldview
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The history of the reception of Darwin's doctrine shows that, as a rule, older scientists with such religious worldviews would not support Darwin.
(2) She had attitude to burn, though, while the Bristol crew were content to drift, their work rate informed by the slow pace of their native city and by what might be called the spliff consciousness that determined not just the bass-heavy pulse of their music but the worldview of their lyrics, which often tended towards the insular and the paranoid.
(3) These introjects influence the intrapsychic world, shape the conscious worldview, and the perception of life experience.
(4) Ben Carson: inside the worldview of a political conundrum Read more One such priority, he said, was protecting the “religious freedom” of people who believe on religious grounds that marriage is “between one man and one woman”.
(5) Though often described as "medieval", militant groups are actually extremely modern, with a worldview built from a mixture of very contemporary religious and secular sources.
(6) To be fair, Hasan doesn't lead with his narrative, but he does make it clear, once we reach that point in the article, that his personal experience informs his entire worldview on the choice of abortion.
(7) "Zach has proven again that he is a creative force in independent film, and we were immediately drawn to his powerful and unique story," Worldview CEO Christopher Woodrow told the site at the Cannes film festival.
(8) Having much enjoyed the hospitality of Mr and Mrs Liddle, I'm in no position to pronounce on what he may offer the Independent , but I can only wonder at the conviction among his online critics that the Liddle worldview is so much less acceptable than those of other editors, actual or potential.
(9) What has made this organisation vulnerable is not the charismatic and highly individual approach of its founder, but the fact that its ethos derives from that of psychotherapy and hence may disturb the worldview of the political class.
(10) If they’re lucky (and if we are, too), their worldview and palate will prove strong enough to resist new pressures of the money-based kind and rich enough to grow and deepen as the film-maker develops.
(11) Chigbo, dressed in jeans and a T-shirt that showed off his biceps, opened the conversation with a line that summed up his worldview.
(12) The moral worldview of the devoted actor is dominated by what Edmund Burke referred to as “the sublime”: a need for the “delightful terror” of a sense of power, destiny, a giving over to the ineffable and unknown.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The images were captured by DigitalGlobe , a commercial satellite operator that attributed the finding to the WorldView-2 satellite from an image dated to 16 March.
(14) This individualistic worldview also extends to gun control, an issue at the heart of these now quasi-routine tragedies.
(15) In the Pentagon worldview, however, there is simply no drug use, nor any factory-style drudgery, and no one in the US Air Force is, was or ever shall be light enough in the loafers to invoke The Wizard Of Oz poetically.
(16) The two themes of wholeness and change in the AHNA definition reflect the Fawcett categorization of worldviews as organismic versus mechanistic and change versus persistence.
(17) Just as Demirtaş is the current darling of the western ambassadors, so Erdoğan was a decade ago; the ambassadors took it upon themselves to smooth his plebeian edges and refine his worldview.
(18) It grinds us down until we adopt a worldview that is pessimistic, desensitised, sarcastic and fatalistic.
(19) Subjects who rated these items low had a belief pattern, designated impersonal, that was consistent with a scientific worldview and that indicated psychological distancing from the cause of the child's disorder.
(20) McFaul, a professional academic who works on Russia, describes Putin's worldview as "paranoid".