Other fields make ontological assumptions that are sometimes explicitly elaborated and explored.

Phenomenography's research object has the character of knowledge; therefore the ontological assumptions also become the epistemological assumptions.

Goff sees the problem in terms of the ontological and epistemological assumptions involved in approaches to sociology.

Dreyfus claims that the plausibility of the psychological assumption rests on two others: the epistemological and ontological assumptions.

The ontological assumption is that reality consists entirely of a set of mutually independent, atomic (indivisible) facts.

Spinoza's theory of knowledge appears to make the ontological assumption that reality is an interconnected system.

This implies that any universalist claims can only be validated by testing against counterexamples in historical (and geographical) contexts - not by using transcendental ontological assumptions.

A world view's root metaphor roughly corresponds to its ontological assumptions, or views about the nature of being or existence (e.g., whether the universe is deterministic or not).

The 20th century German philosopher Martin Heidegger criticized the ontological assumptions underpinning such a reductive model, and claimed that it was impossible to make sense of experience in these terms.

The aspects of the body include the motor system, the perceptual system, the body's interactions with the environment (situatedness) and the ontological assumptions about the world that are built into the body and the brain.