Top 60 Quotes About Ontology
#1. Much of what Karl Popper contributed to the philosophy of science has now passed into mainstream thought, into the currency of that nebulous, tricky ontology known as 'common sense.'
Liz Williams
#2. Brilliant. The Ontology Project is a post-graduate course in card magic.
Jim Steinmeyer
#3. Our manifest image, unlike the daisy's ontology or Umwelt, really is manifest, really is subjective in a strong sense. It's the world we live in, the world according to us.
Daniel C. Dennett
#4. The ultimate philosophical challenge is to reveal the ontology of God.
Kedar Joshi
#5. Our acceptance of an ontology is, I think, similar in principle to our acceptance of a scientific theory, say a system of physics;we adopt, at least insofar as we are reasonable, the simplest conceptual scheme into which the disordered fragments of raw experience can be fitted and arranged.
Willard Van Orman Quine
#6. I'm apt to get drunk on words ... Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.
Madeleine L'Engle
#7. The shared paradox of mathematics and ontology is that they speak of what lies behind every presentation without actually involving a presentation in the usual sense.
Anonymous
#8. Guerrilla ontology The basic technique of all my books . Ontology is the study of being; the guerrilla approach is to so mix the elements of each book that the reader must decide on each page 'How much of this is real and how much is a put-on?
Robert Anton Wilson
#10. The final philosophy is the ontology of God.
Kedar Joshi
#11. Given AC as a rival to naturalism, there is an additional burden of proof for a naturalist ontology that quantifies over sui generis emergent properties such as those constitutive of consciousness. After
William Lane Craig
#12. Catastrophe as Catalyst in the Ontology of Joy, or Hurricane Parties on the Gulf Coast during Hurricane Camille: An In-depth Study of Eleven Victims Who Elected to Stay Compared with Eleven Random Control Subjects Who Elected to Leave"?
Walker Percy
#13. Utopia would seem to offer the spectacle of one of those rare phenomena whose concept is indistinguishable from its reality, whose ontology coincides with its representation.
Fredric Jameson
#14. It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology.
John Polkinghorne
#15. If an ontology predicts almost nothing it ends up explaining almost nothing, and there's no reason to believe it.
Sean Carroll
#16. We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology.
Deepak Chopra
#17. There's something in the Western mind that gets very nervous when you try to talk about the bedrock of ontology.
Terence McKenna
#18. The ontology of materialism rested upon the illusion that the kind of existence, the direct "actuality" of the world around us, can be extrapolated into the atomic range. This extrapolation is impossible, however.
Werner Heisenberg
#19. Wyman's overpopulated universe is in many ways unlovely. It offends the aesthetic sense of us who have a taste for desert landscapes, but this is not the worst of it. Wyman's slum of possibles is a breeding ground for disorderly elements.
Willard Van Orman Quine
#20. The line has magnitude in one way, the plane in two ways, and the solid in three ways, and beyond these there is no other magnitude because the three are all.
Aristotle.
#21. Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions.
Charles Sanders Peirce
#22. Experimental work provides the strongest evidence for scientific realism. This is not because we test hypotheses about entities. It is because entities that in principle cannot be 'observed' are manipulated to produce a new phenomena
[sic] and to investigate other aspects of nature.
Ian Hacking
#23. A secret and ardent stirring within the frozen chastity of the universal.
Thomas Mann
#24. Its strangeness is, we might say, due to its very reality, to the very fact that there is existence. The questioning of Being is an experience of Being in its strangeness
Emmanuel Levinas
#25. My opinion of mankind is founded upon the mournful fact that, so far as I can see, they find within themselves the means of believing in a thousand times as much as there is to believe in.
Augustus De Morgan
#27. All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.
Alain Badiou
#28. If [things] seem to have a relative unreality ... it is because they are potential and not actual; they are unfulfilled ... They have it in them to be more real than they are.
G.K. Chesterton
#29. What the mind cannot accept, the heart can finally never adore.
John Shelby Spong
#30. In my paper the fact the XY was not equal to YX was very disagreeable to me. I felt this was the only point of difficulty in the whole scheme ... and I was not able to solve it.
Werner Heisenberg
#32. Bodies are real entities. Surfaces and lines are but fictitious entities. A surface without depth, a line without thickness, was never seen by any man; no; nor can any conception be seriously formed of its existence.
Jeremy Bentham
#33. All major changes are like death. You can't see to the other side until you are there.
Michael Crichton
#34. If, as you teach, the universe has no beginning and no end, why should we?
Janet Morris
#35. We call infinite that thing whose limits we have not perceived, and so by that word we do not signify what we understand about a thing, but rather what we do not understand.
Rene Descartes
#36. Neither the true nor the false roots are always real; sometimes they are imaginary; that is, while we can always imagine as many roots for each equation as I have assigned, yet there is not always a definite quantity corresponding to each root we have imagined.
Rene Descartes
#37. A good proof is one that makes us wiser.
Yuri Manin
#39. Infinity is a dark illimitable ocean, without bound.
John Milton
#40. Although my knowledge grows more and more, nevertheless I do not for that reason believe that it can ever be actually infinite, since it can never reach a point so high that it will be unable to attain any greater increase.
Rene Descartes
#41. We are the relationships that make us; we have our being in and through relationships that place us into reality, and therefore we are open ontologically to the possibility of encounter.
Andrew Root
#42. Today the major reason for our interest in Flatland is that for the first time we can achieve some of the dreams of our ancestors a century ago and obtain direct visual experience of phenomena in a dimension higher than our own.
Thomas Banchoff
#43. No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn't pass the test of mathematical proof.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#44. From now on, I'm opting for ontological terrorism.
Grant Morrison
#46. Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish.
Marcus Aurelius
#47. It is well known that the central problem of the whole of modern mathematics is the study of transcendental functions defined by differential equations.
Felix Klein
#48. The world is too big and too intricate to conform to our ideas of what it should be like ... Just because we invent myths and theories to explain away the chaos we're still going to live in a world that's older and more complicated than we'll ever understand.
Moby
#49. Horror operates with complete autonomy. Generating ontological havoc, it is mephitic foam upon which our lives merely float. And ultimately, we must face up to it: Horror is more real than we are.
Thomas Ligotti
#50. The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us.
Michael Crichton
#51. ALGEBRA is a general Method of Computation by certain Signs and Symbols which have been contrived for this Purpose, and found convenient.
Colin Maclaurin
#52. Thought that accepts reality as given is no thought at all.
Herbert Marcuse
#53. Being and not being are not two different realities, but two different aspects of the same reality.
Raheel Farooq
#54. Calculus works by making visible the infinitesimally small.
Keith Devlin
#55. The type of nothing from which something can arise is truly something.
John K. Brown
#56. Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.
Slavoj Zizek
#57. This view [of the infinite], which I consider to be the sole correct one, is held by only a few. While possibly I am the very first in history to take this position so explicitly, with all of its logical consequences, I know for sure that I shall not be the last!
Georg Cantor
#58. She had not been the sort to have cared about the naming of things that existed well without it ...
Thomm Quackenbush
#59. Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.
Peter Kreeft
#60. And entertainment has nothing to do with reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality.
Michael Crichton
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