Definition
ontic
adjective
- of or relating to being or existence; concerned with what exists or is real rather than with knowledge or appearance
Usage: philosophy, formal
Examples
- The philosopher distinguished between ontic claims about reality and epistemic claims about knowledge.
- Ontic commitments in a theory refer to what entities the theory assumes actually exist.
- The debate centered on the ontic status of abstract objects in mathematics.
- Her work explores the ontic foundations of physical laws.
- Ontic pluralism suggests that multiple types of being can coexist in reality.