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Ontic

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(language)Ontic - Object-oriented language for an inference system with a Lisp-like appearance, but based on set theory.

["Ontic: A Knowledge Representation System for Mathematics", D.A. McAllester, MIT Press 1989].

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2) The falasifah's theory of bodies as constituted of matter and form tends to ascribe a degree of ontic and causal autonomy to nature or rather to matter that is viewed as very problematic (from both the physical and theological viewpoints) by the mutakallimun, for whom the world, including matter, is totally dependent on God for every spatio-temporal instant of its existence.
The move from epiphanic spaces to the institution of "sacred" places as spaces endowed with a different ontic quality is what may properly be called idolatry.
 
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