ontic

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In my view, unless we roll up our sleeves and get down in the world of beings, of the ontic, and how they're put together, how they're assembled, there's little hope for any sort of change.

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  • Advaita, for instance, grants a curiously intermediate ontic status to the empirical world as being neither existent nor non-existent but inexplicable (anirvacya). —  Kafila
  • The Ontological Principle would thus direct us squarely to the ontic. —  Larval Subjects .
  • The problem with your reworking is that it still doesnt cross the divide between the ontic and the epistemic; althought that is what you are getting at. —  WordPress.com News
  • Rather only ontic Christianity, and the ontic Christ who ontically inhabits the hearts of men can transform. —  WordPress.com News
  • Each man is experiencing something ontically (by touching it) but because they may only communicate by speaking they have to cloak the ontic experience of "experiencing the elephant" with epistemic descriptions of what they experienced. —  WordPress.com News
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