ontical

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adjective

Of or relating to ontology.

Scrabble 9

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adjectiveontical (comparative more ontical, superlative most ontical)

comparative more ontical · superlative most ontical

  1. Of or relating to ontology.
  2. Pertaining to being generally, as opposed to some theory of it (which would be ontology).

    My descriptions are ontical—addressing the world we inhabit, the what and where and how and why of objects therein; my questions are not ontological in the sense of struggling (vainly) to answer the question of the being of things tout court.

    2015, Bill Brown, Other Things, Univ of Chicago Press, →ISBN

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