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A profound philosophic writer of the age intimates that the various psychological systems which have so long vexed the world are but veiled ontologic speculations.

From Beulah by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)

Existence then will be a brute fact to which as a whole the emotion of ontologic wonder shall rightfully cleave, but remain eternally unsatisfied.

From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William

They lead, however, into that region of panpsychic and ontologic speculation of which Professors Bergson and Strong have lately enlarged the literature in so able and interesting a way.

From A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy by James, William

Beulah, no mine of ontologic truth has been discovered.

From Beulah by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)