And, so, it is by virtue of this conceptual connection that the failure of the ontological argument is supposed to compromise the cosmological argument.
Ontological differences relate to the nature of knowledge and explanation.
At the same time he emphasised the necessity of maintaining historical continuity as an ontological basis for society and as a creative source for architecture.
This definition restricts the mappings to ontological signatures.
His statements do not indicate whether he means ' real ' in an ontological sense or ' real ' as posited by the believer.
To concede that statements are sometimes true, in this sense, therefore, does not commit one to an ontological theory about the entities that they describe.
The meaning of religious beliefs is limited to the ' phenomena of the belief, not the ontological status of the belief ' (207).
Since the cognitive science of religion is a naturalistic research programme, it is doubtful that its proponents can remain neutral on important ontological questions.
