ontologistn.
/ɒnˈtɒlədʒɪst/, U.S. /ɑnˈtɑlədʒəst/ A student of or expert in ontology; a metaphysician.
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1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Ontologist, one who treats of Beings in the Abstract.
1793 T. Beddoes Observ. Nature Demonstrative Evid. 12 The ontologists have mistaken the humble posteriori for the high priori road.
1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 168 The difference between the notional One of the Ontologists, and the Idea of the Living God.
1856 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic (ed. 4) I. i. iii. 65 Refutation of the Ontologists from their own premises and in their own language.
1905 Philos. Rev. 14 18 Æsthetics cries out for special aid from the ontologist. ‘What,’ he asks, ‘is..the inner nature of that which we can the real beauty?’.
1952 Jrnl. Philos. 49 339 The historical ontologist believes that historical knowledge is not explicable unless we make some commitment concerning the ontologic reality of ‘historical entities’.
1980 Noûs 14 651 Marx, so far as he was at this level of things an ontologist at all, no doubt shared the general inability to understand relations characteristic of philosophers before Russell.
2000 J. Barnes Aristotle xiii. 92 As an ontologist, Aristotle's primary substances were ordinary perceptible objects.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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