* Ontological pluralism

* Ontological pluralism

* Ontological pluralism

* Ontological pluralism

The Ontological argument is also presented, but rejected in favor of proofs dealing with cause and effect alone.

In 1896, theologian J. H. Worman identified seven categories of pantheism: Mechanical or materialistic ( God the mechanical unity of existence ); Ontological ( abstract unity, Spinoza ); Dynamic ; Psychical ( God is the soul of the world ); Ethical ( God is the universal moral order, Johann Gottlieb Fichte ); Logical ( Hegel ); and Pure ( absorption of God into nature, which Worman equates with atheism ).

Ontological reductionism is the belief that reality is composed of a minimum number of kinds of entities or substances.

Ontological reductionism is the claim that everything that exists is made from a small number of basic substances that behave in regular ways ( compare to monism ).

Ontological reductionism denies the idea of ontological emergence, and claims that emergence is an epistemological phenomenon that only exists through analysis or description of a system, and does not exist on a fundamental level.

" He is very doubtful of St Anselm's Ontological Argument.

Ontological commitment is not a matter of what commitments one explicitly recognizes, but rather a matter of what commitments are actually incurred.

: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism is a book by anarchist writer Hakim Bey published in 1991 by Autonomedia.

It is composed of three sections, " Chaos: The Broadsheets of Ontological Anarchism ," " Communiques of the Association for Ontological Anarchy ," and " The Temporary Autonomous Zone.

Indeed, a basic presupposition of constructivism is that Reality-As-It-Is-In-Itself ( Ontological Reality ) is utterly incoherent as a concept, since there is no way to verify how one has finally reached a definitive notion of Reality.

She has appeared in Negative Space and Richard Foreman's Ontological Hysteric in New York City and in several new plays at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles ; she is based in Seattle.

Ontological questions continue with further " what is ..." questions addressed at fundamental economic phenomena, such as " what is ( economic ) value?

The Citizens Ontological Music Agenda is a project that hosts experimental music, poetry, and other forms of performance on Sunday Evenings.

Ontological paradoxes were explored in " Blink ", where the Doctor explains that space-time is not strictly cause-to-effect, and serve as a major plot device in " Time Crash ".

The indeterminacy of translation is also discussed at length in his Ontological Relativity ( 1968 ).

Hans Blumenberg received his postdoctoral qualification in 1950, with a dissertation on ' Ontological distance ', an inquiry into the crisis of Husserl's phenomenology.

* Context and Adaptivity in Pervasive Computing Environments: Links with Software Engineering and Ontological Engineering, article in Journal of Software, Vol 4, No 9 ( 2009 ), 992-1013, Nov 2009 by Ahmet Soylu, Patrick De Causmaecker and Piet Desmet

The Neoist Society in association with Ontological Museum Publications.

In 1956 he produced a supplemental volume De Constitutione Christi Ontologica et Psychica ; the fourth and final edition of 1964 was presented in the Collected Works with an interleaf translation as The Ontological and Psychological Constitution of Christ ( 2002 ).

As such, this was also a rejection of the Ontological Proof of God's existence and also Hegel's Absolute idealism, with its Absolute Spirit.

Becker's Postulate later played a role in the formalization given, by Charles Hartshorne, the American process theologian, of the Ontological Proof of God's existence, stimulated by conversations with the logical positivist and opponent of the alleged proof, Rudolf Carnap.

* Ontological commitment, belief in an ontology in philosophy

Ontological Investigations.

* " Ontological Categories and How to Use Them " -- Amie Thomassen.

* A. P. Hazen, " On Gödel's Ontological Proof ", Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Vol.

* Jordan Howard Sobel, " Gödel's Ontological Proof " in On Being and Saying.

Ontological reductionism takes two different forms: token ontological reductionism and type ontological reductionism.

Later he felt that causal sounded too much like deterministic and preferred to call his theory the Ontological Interpretation.

* Christensen, Jørgen Riber, " Diplopia, or Ontological Intertextuality in Pastiche " in Culture, Media, Theory, Practice: Perspectives, ed.

His research interests include Hilary Putnam, time travel, the Ontological Argument, the Doomsday Argument and the semantics of vagueness.

In 2009 he presented Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological Model at the Gruter Institute Squaw Valley Conference: Law, Behavior & the Brain.

* Handbook For Teaching Leadership: Knowing, Doing, and Being ; edited by Scott Snook, Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana – Chapter 16 – Creating Leaders: An Ontological / Phenomenological Model, authored by Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, and Kari Granger.

( 1984 ), " Ibn Sina's Fourth Ontological Argument for God's Existence ", The Muslim World 74 ( 3-4 ), 161 – 171.

It is possible that international organization will ultimately supplant the multi-state system, but its proper function for the immediate future is to reform and supplement that system in order to render pluralism more compatible with an interdependent world.

The Conservative movement is committed to Jewish pluralism and respects the religious practices of Reform and Reconstructionist Jews.

The term " democracy " is sometimes used as shorthand for liberal democracy, which is a variant of representative democracy that may include elements such as political pluralism ; equality before the law ; the right to petition elected officials for redress of grievances ; due process ; civil liberties ; human rights ; and elements of civil society outside the government.

Duality with pluralism is considered a logical fallacy.

In traditions such as classical Hinduism, Zen Buddhism or Islamic Sufism, a key to enlightenment is " transcending " this sort of dualistic thinking, without merely substituting dualism with monism or pluralism.

This idea is in conflict with the evolutionary philosophy of paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, who preferred to stress the " pluralism " of evolution ( i. e., its dependence on many crucial factors, of which natural selection is only one ).

In this sense, dictatorship ( government without people's consent ) is a contrast to democracy ( government whose power comes from people ) and totalitarianism ( government controls every aspect of people's life ) opposes pluralism ( government allows multiple lifestyles and opinions ).

Although it is largely disputed whether Strauss himself was a historicist, he often indicated that historicism grew out of Christianity and was a threat to civic participation, a belief in human agency, religious pluralism, and, most controversially, an accurate understanding of the classical philosophers and religious prophets themselves.

For example, G. Philips asserts that the essence-energies distinction as presented by Palamas is " a typical example of a perfectly admissible theological pluralism " that is compatible with the Roman Catholic magisterium.

" The theory was indebted to Aristotle's pluralism and his concepts of Soul, the rational, living aspect of a living substance which cannot exist apart from the body because it is not a substance but an essence, and nous, rational thought, reflection and understanding.

*** Value pluralism contends that there are two or more genuine scales of value, knowable as such, yet incommensurable, so that any prioritization of these values is either non-cognitive or subjective.

Contrasting with this point of view is dualism which asserts that there are two ultimately irreconcilable substances or realities ( with consciousness and / or mind on the one hand and matter on the other ) or pluralism which asserts any number of fundamental substances or realities more than two.

As such, it is different from ontological theories based on dualism or pluralism.

This concern is based on the belief that economic reform will produce new interests that will demand political expression, and that demands for the institutionalization of such pluralism eventually will lead to political liberalization.

In this sense pluralism is the expression of the diversity of cultural backgrounds and assumptions that people use to approach the Divine.

Despite the complexities, contemporary political science has progressed by adopting a variety of methods and theoretical approaches to understanding politics and methodological pluralism is a defining feature of contemporary political science.

Religious pluralism is an attitude or policy regarding the diversity of religious belief systems co-existing in society.

Religious pluralism is sometimes used as a synonym for interfaith dialogue.

Many religious believers believe that religious pluralism should entail not competition but cooperation, and argue that societal and theological change is necessary to overcome religious differences between different religions, and denominational conflicts within the same religion.

The earliest reference to Buddhist views on religious pluralism in a political sense is found in the Edicts of Emperor Ashoka:

Some Christians have argued that religious pluralism is an invalid or self-contradictory concept.