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Ontological questions are generally beside the point, hardly more than a form of harassment. -- Noam Chomsky
Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher. -- Antonio Tabucchi
When it comes to the real operational issues that govern our understanding of physical reality, ontological definitions of classical philosophers are, in my opinion, sterile. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
Radical constructivism, thus, is radical because it breaks with convention and develops a theory of knowledge in which knowledge does not reflect an 'objective' ontological reality. -- Paul Watzlawick
Classical philosophical theism maintained the ontological distinction between God and creative world that is necessary for any genuine theism by conceiving them to be of different substances, with particular attributes predicated of each. -- Arthur Peacocke
The storyline of a fantasy novel is filled with such a sense of enchantment, beauty and strangeness; it allows the writer to explore the big ontological questions of life that would sound like a sermon in a social realist novel. -- Kate Forsyth
From now on, I'm opting for ontological terrorism. -- Grant Morrison
Great God in Boots! â?? the ontological argument is sound! -- Bertrand Russell
The societal division of labor obtains the dignity of an ontological condition. -- Herbert Marcuse
Love has been the ontological pattern for me. And also the withholding pattern. -- Masha Tupitsyn
The precarious ontological link between Logos and Eros is broken, and scientific rationality emerges as essentially neutral. -- Herbert Marcuse
The non-commutativity of the underlying process produces an ontological complementarity. This must be contrasted to Bohr's epistemological complementarity. -- Basil Hiley
Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons. -- Peter Kreeft
If people have multiple identities and deal with multiple realities, why should we expect them to be ontological purists? -- Karl E. Weick
Without the ontological assumption which goes with it, what is called science, is nothing but the dreamer's well-ordered dream. -- George Trumbull Ladd
The digital age is for me in many ways about temporal wounding. It's really messed up our ontological clocks. -- Masha Tupitsyn
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. -- Richard Shweder
cut off from the intuitive knowledge of ontological reason, technical knowledge is directionless and ultimately meaningless. When it dominates, life is deprived of an experience of depth, and it tends toward despair. -- Mary Daly
Classical philosophical theism maintained the ontological distinction between God and creative world that is necessary for any genuine theism by conceiving them to be of different substances, with particular attributes predicated of each." -- Arthur Peacocke
Man's being is made of such strange stuff as to be partly akin to nature and partly not, at once natural and extranatural, a kind of ontological centaur, half immersed in nature, half transcending it. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset

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