Advertisement

Advertisement

View synonyms for ontologism

ontologism

[ on-tol-uh-jiz-uhm ]

noun

, Theology.
  1. the doctrine that the human intellect has an immediate cognition of God as its proper object and the principle of all its cognitions.


Discover More

Word History and Origins

Origin of ontologism1

First recorded in 1860–65; ontolog(y) + -ism
Discover More

Example Sentences

As the speculations of Rosmini-Serbati, against which he wrote, have been called the last link added to medieval thought, so the system of Gioberti, known as “Ontologism,” more especially in his greater and earlier works, is unrelated to other modern schools of thought.

In place of Rosmini's "psychologism," which was advanced by Descartes and which leads to skepticism, he seeks to substitute "ontologism," which is alone held capable of reconciling science and the Catholic religion.

Together with this, there is also a levelling-up philosophy, a sort of modernized ontologism, which would attribute all natural intuition to a more immediate self-revelation on God's part than seems quite compatible with orthodoxy.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement


ontological argumentontologize