id: 4101,2
title: Ontological stances or viewpoints.
date: 2023-11-19

Ontological stances or viewpoints.

These reference basic concepts:rV1

• Ontological reductionism: A whole is nothing more than its parts, and ordinary objects exist through composition.
• Ontological realism: Things objectively exist and don’t require the interpretation of an observer because the universe has meaningful “joints” by which to separate.
• Ontological anti-realism: There are many ways to perceive the universe. Our perceptions are only as we need them to be. No objective “joints”.
• Ontological innocense: Things arise from their simples but are not literally those simples. A thing “exists” in its own right, not necessarily as a reference to its literal parts. Things can be defined this way by introducing an application condition to provide enough context to distinguish a thing from the rest of the simples involved.
• Ontological parasitism: Wholes must be hosted by something else cannot exist unto themselves. Object fixation/property repression has us focus on the parasite and ignore that only its materials actually exist.