This statement is one form of Whitehead's'ontological principle '.
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Whitehead calls this'the ontological principle '.
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His dissertation in metaphysics was " " Whitehead's Ontological Principle : A Defense and Interpretation . ""
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In the Vedic religion, Rta is an ontological principle of natural order which regulates and coordinates the operation of the universe.
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The Prat + tyasamutpda ontological principle in Buddhism is applied not only to explain the nature and existence of matter and empirically observed phenomenon, but also to the nature and existence of life.
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Whitehead's "'ontological principle "'is that whatever reality pertains to an abstraction is derived from the actual entities upon which it is founded or of which it is comprised.
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Third, the " Ontological Principle " maintains that if there is no difference that does not also make a difference, then the making of difference is the minimal condition for the existence of being.
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The ontological principle is contrasted with that of traditional Persian culture : " In this sense, the traditional African ontological approach is the opposite of that of, for example, Zoroastrianism, where Light and Darkness are warring concepts.
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In generalizing the agential alterity of being as a foundational ontological principle, Bryant posits three theses : First, wilderness ontology signals the absence of ontological hierarchy, such that all forms of being exist on equal footing with one another.
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It is, however, said that Plato once disclosed this knowledge to the public in his lecture " On the Good " ( ???v ?????? ), in which the Good ( ?x ????? ) is identified with the One ( the Unity, ?x ? ), the fundamental ontological principle.