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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of ontologism¹

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

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg