ontic
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of ontic
Example Sentences
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Where religion addresses ontology, science is concerned with ontic description.
From Slate • Jul. 8, 2014
From where I was sitting in a nondescript room in a nondescript hotel, ontic structural realism seemed to be the only one left standing.
From Scientific American • Jan. 31, 2014
Clinical Is A potentially clinical psychiatric mental health situation becomes "clinical" if the clinician relates to the helpee to awaken his unique potential or ontic wholeness, and noetically transcending this relating conceptualizes its meaning.
From Humanistic Nursing by Paterson, Josephine G.
My hope in consultation was to offer both a cognitive, as well as, an ontic experience in which a mutual feeling apart from and toward the other would exist.
From Humanistic Nursing by Paterson, Josephine G.
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