💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Ontological argument"
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| Word | Definition |
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| teleological argumentnoun | (philosophy, theology) A type of argument for the existence of God, stating that orderliness of nature is evidence of design, therefore also of a designer. |
| cosmological argumentnoun | (theology, philosophy) A type of argument for the existence of God arguing that since every thing and event that begins at a point in time has a cause, there must be an uncaused first cause. |
| ontologismnoun | (philosophy) An ideological system which maintains that God and divine ideas are the first object of our intelligence and the intuition of God's existence the first act of our intellect. |
| argument from designnoun | (theology) A teleological argument. |
| ontotheologynoun | The ontology of God and/or the theology of being; a tradition of philosophical theology first prominent among medieval scholastics, notably Duns Scotus. |
| ontologynoun | (uncountable, philosophy) The branch of metaphysics that addresses the nature or essential characteristics of being and of things that exist; the study of being qua being. |
| theothanatologynoun | (philosophy, theology) A range of philosophical and theological explorations of the idea that God may be dead. |
| physicotheologynoun | (philosophy, theology, dated) The view that evidence and sound arguments for God's existence can be derived from a study of the natural world; a study of the natural world intended to provide such evidence. |
| panlogismnoun | (philosophy) The Hegelian doctrine that the universe is the act or realization of Logos, and therefore logic and ontology are the same study. |
| ontonomynoun | A philosophy of existence that emphasizes the harmonious coexistence of nonuniform entities. |
| ontologistnoun | (philosophy) A scholar or theorist of ontology, or an adherent of a particular ontological doctrine. |
| ontosophynoun | (philosophy) A comprehensive explanation for being (in contrast to merely a description of being, or a reason for being). |
| teleologynoun | (philosophy) The study of the purpose or design of natural occurrences. |
| etymological argumentnoun | (philosophy, linguistics) Explanation and analysis—often considered controversial—of one or more concepts or linguistic terms by means of an exposition of their linguistic origins. |
| theodicitynoun | Alternative form of theodicy. [(theology, philosophy) A justification of a deity or of particular attributes of a deity; specifically, a justification of the existence of evil and suffering in the world; a work or discourse justifying the ways of God.] |
| god hypothesisnoun | The hypothesis that God exists, seen as something able to be analyzed by a scientific approach rather than accepted by faith. |
| ousianoun | (philosophy) Essence, being. |
| deontic logicnoun | (logic) The study of obligation, permission, and related concepts. |
| conceptual analysisnoun | (philosophy) The analysis of concepts, including, for a given concept, the search for its definition. |
| theodicynoun | (theology, philosophy) A justification of a deity or of particular attributes of a deity; specifically, a justification of the existence of evil and suffering in the world; a work or discourse justifying the ways of God. |
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