| 英语单词 | ontological |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 [ˌɒntə'lɒdʒɪkl] 美 [ˌɒntə'lɒdʒɪkl] |
| 中文释义 | adj.存在论的;本体论的 |
| 英语例句 | (1) Questioning closely means existential ontological questing. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 追问乃是对生存本体论的寻求。 |
| vocabulary简明 | Things that have to do with the nature of being are ontological, like your ontological question about the Loch Ness Monster — do we have to have proof in order for something to exist? |
| vocabulary扩展 | The study of being, is called ontology, so an ontological argument might investigate whether God — or people, for that matter — really exist. Are we real or just an imagined phenomenon? How do we know we aren't just characters in our creator's mind? These are heavy questions — philosophers including Aristotle, Parmenides, Descartes, Hume, Kant have all weighed in on the ontological question of “what can we be certain exists?” |
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