ontic
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9.9
- adjective
- /ˈɑn.tɪk/
- Specialized
- He focused on ontic experiences, emphasizing what is tangible and real rather than theoretical ideas.
- ontic imagination
- ontic and logical
Examples
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Both ontic and logical limits expose the historic horizon of a text and its links with contemporary paradigms.
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Ontic imagination and empathetic imagination are not enough to sustain hope for the recognition, promotion, and protection of human rights.
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The structure of speech is explored for ontic axioms.
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A truthful grasp of ontological and ontic reality is the foundation of human existence, whether dark or bright.
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Yet the divergence in their judicial opinions reveals a great difference in their capacity for ontic imagination.
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Ontic imagination enables decision-makers to see those who are very different from them as equal in fundamental human dignity.
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Drawing on legal cases from Australia and the United States as examples, the author argues that three types of imagination are necessary: ontic, empathetic, and strategic.
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Their major feature is not a portrayal of the history of events and their succession, but the history of imagination, the history of mankind's logical and ontic reflection in the passage of time.
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One might argue, for example, that an agent who employs ontic imagination in an effort to appreciate the true dignity of an alien and unfamiliar people is in fact exercising the habit of understanding.
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Different from the Western traditional ontological philosophy, the Confucian philosophy concentrates more on the quest for the appropriate, suitable, contextual, and timely correct degree of "zhong" between or among different things, rather than seeking the static, permanent, or ontic "being" of thing-in-itself.
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Synonyms
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1.4
Real and existing in fact, not imagined or expected
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9.9
About what exists and what is real
Surface Forms
Morphology
ontic = ont + ic
Formed from the Greek combining form 'ont-' (being) + the adjectival suffix '-ic'; the root 'ont' is not a standalone English word and the meaning is technical, so learners cannot reliably derive the meaning from known English base words.
Etymology
Ontic comes from the Greek root ont- meaning 'being' or 'to be', the same root in ontology. So, ontic describes things that really 'are' or 'exist'—real or physical existence rather than just ideas.