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Ontic vs Deontic - What's the difference?

ontic | deontic |

As adjectives the difference between ontic and deontic

is that ontic is ontological while deontic is (ethics|linguistics) pertaining to necessity, duty or obligation, or expressions conveying this.

ontic

English

(wikipedia ontic)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Ontological.
  • Whatever pertains to being generally, as opposed to some theory of it (which would be ontology).
  • The intransitive objects of some specific, historically determinate, scientific investigation.

    • Derived terms

    * ontically

    Related terms

    * ontological * ontologist * ontology

    Anagrams

    * tonic

    References

    British philosopher Roy Bhaskar's definitions (2,3) are taken from the Wikipedia article, .

    deontic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (ethics, linguistics) Pertaining to necessity, duty or obligation, or expressions conveying this.

    • External links

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    Anagrams

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