: of, relating to, or having real being
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Critics have already spoken of the ontic meaning of Clarice’s animals.
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Benjamin Moser, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2023
Further there is a class of uncertainties (ontic or aleatory uncertainties) that are fundamentally not reducible.
—Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 30 June 2010
Software creates us, our ontic exhaust powering the megacorporate machinery.
—Wired, 19 Aug. 2019
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Benjamin Moser, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2023
Further there is a class of uncertainties (ontic or aleatory uncertainties) that are fundamentally not reducible.
—Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 30 June 2010
Software creates us, our ontic exhaust powering the megacorporate machinery.
—Wired, 19 Aug. 2019
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“Ontic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ontic. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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