ontological position

Some anti-realists, whose ontological position is that objects outside the mind do exist, nevertheless doubt the independent existence of time and space.

Our underlying ontological position about how people engage in curriculum leadership is most significant in understanding our research purpose.

Observe therefore that an anti-realist ontological position does not necessarily lead to a refusal of a general theory of education.

CTS adopts the ontological position that "terrorism" is fundamentally a social fact rather than brute fact.

Because it was created for the Carus Lectures, Quine states his ontological position in a "delightfully relaxed, good-humored style."

Essence (epistemology) and existence (ontology) When leaving the hope of finding the ultimate theory the question is, however, if it really is necessary to abandon a realist ontological position?

There are, first, two basic rival metaphysical theories, mentalist and materialist, and between them a number of hybrid ontological positions, incorporating in various proportions elements from both these views.

Our ontological position is one of democratic participation and inclusion; our epistemological stance is associated with socially-critical constructions of knowledge; and our methodological approach is a "working with" rather than a "working on" people.

Dialectical monism, also known as dualistic monism, is an ontological position that holds that reality is ultimately a unified whole, distinguishing itself from monism by asserting that this whole necessarily expresses itself in dualistic terms.

Krishna Dasa relates in his Chaitanya Charitamrita that, once his brother argued with a prominent Vaishnava devotee Minaketana Ramadasa over the ontological positions of Chaitanya and Nityananda (Chaitanya's lifelong companion) and belittled the position of Nityananda.

During the lifetime of Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Prabhupad, Srila Sridhar Maharaj once composed a poem describing the ontological positions of Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur and the line of disciplic succession stemming from Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.