Arthur Peacocke

Classical philosophical theism maintained the ontological distinction between God and creative world that is necessary for any genuine theism by conceiving them to be of different substances, with particular attributes predicated of each.

English Theologian

Joshua Oppenheimer

I think it's a great pity in the Anglophone world that we conflate cinema verite and Direct Cinema; they're, in fact, ontological opposites. In Direct Cinema, we create a fictional reality with characters and pretend we're not that.

British Director

Kate Forsyth

The storyline of a fantasy novel is filled with such a sense of enchantment, beauty and strangeness; it allows the writer to explore the big ontological questions of life that would sound like a sermon in a social realist novel.

Australian Author

Paul Watzlawick

Radical constructivism, thus, is radical because it breaks with convention and develops a theory of knowledge in which knowledge does not reflect an 'objective' ontological reality.

Austrian Psychologist

Lawrence M. Krauss

When it comes to the real operational issues that govern our understanding of physical reality, ontological definitions of classical philosophers are, in my opinion, sterile.

American Physicist

Antonio Tabucchi

Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.

Italian Writer

Lou Barlow

I don't know what ontological means... I barely graduated high school, and I have never heard that word in conversation.

American Musician

It's a technical term used mainly in philosophical contexts to discuss existence and reality.

Philosophical Term

Ontological often refers to things that aren't physical but involve the essence of being.

Not Physical

Ontological arguments can be complex; they often require understanding of abstract reasoning.

Complex Arguments

 fascinating thing about this creative act the ontological designing that's taking place here is that everything that we designed designs us back think about that we create this currency and we say this is worth this much once we ascribe that meaning to that then that takes on a life of its own that can

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 that it's given us nothing less than an ontological awakening a forceful reckoning with what is allowing us to contemplate space and time on a scale just shy of the infinite and then he talks about the Deep Field photograph and he says gazing upon the deep field is like mainlining the whole of time

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 The laws have some sort of ontological power or clout that they can form the abyss, that it's pregnant with being. They can call a world into existence out of nothing. But that's a very primitive view of what a physical law is, right? We know that physical laws are actually