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Meaning of ontic | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. Ontological.
  2. Pertaining to being, as opposed to pertaining to a theory of it (which would be ontological).

Equivalents

Deutsch ontisch

Examples

“My descriptions are ontical—addressing the world we inhabit, the what and where and how and why of objects therein; my questions are not ontological in the sense⟳ of struggling (vainly) to answer⟳ the question⟳ of the being of things tout court.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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See also

ontical onto ontoepistemological ontogenetic ontogenetical ontogenic

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