Meaning & use
ontological
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Relating to ontology, the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of being and existence.
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The debate raised ontological questions about what it means for something to truly exist.
Philosophers have long argued over the ontological status of numbers.
A note on using this word
Often paired with 'epistemological' (about knowledge) in academic writing to distinguish questions of being from questions of knowing.
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