ontologise
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Verb edit
ontologise (third-person singular simple present ontologises, present participle ontologising, simple past and past participle ontologised)
- Alternative form of ontologize
- 1981, William J. Wainwright, Mysticism, page 122:
- According to Robert Gimello, 'Buddhists do not ontologise the contents of their mystical experiences.'
- 2003, Sallie Westwood, John Williams, Imagining Cities: Scripts, Signs and Memories, →ISBN, page 250:
- But in doing so we will try to expose some of the false analogies which attempt to ontologise the cyberworld as a parallel universe to our own—as a space apart with its own terms and conditions into which we are inserted as nodes of communication and as identities constituted as a function of the meanings internal to the virtual realm.
- 2009, Gotthard Bechmann, The Social Integration of Science, →ISBN, page 109:
- The natural sciences were only able to ontologise their statements traditionally because the object of their research – nature – normally did not contradict this.
- 2014, David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks, →ISBN, page 432:
- There, in the 1210s, a figure known as the Blind Cathar ontologised into being a conduit into the Dusk.