causal ontology

noun

Language or other descriptive system which restricts that which can be described to that which can be.

“If English were a causal ontology, you could not say or write 'I ate my house', because you cannot eat a house.”

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Meanings

nouncausal ontology (plural causal ontologies)

plural causal ontologies

  1. Language or other descriptive system which restricts that which can be described to that which can be.

    If English were a causal ontology, you could not say or write 'I ate my house', because you cannot eat a house.

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