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Ontological is the adjective for ideas about what it means for something to be real — to exist at all.
Ontological is the adjectiveontological是形容詞 for ideas about what it means for something to be real用來講「某樣東西怎樣才算真實存在」這種概念 to exist at all也就是存不存在的問題
Philosophers ask ontological questions: What kinds of things are there? Is a number as real as a chair? Is there a God?
Philosophers ask ontological questions哲學家會問ontological的問題 What kinds of things are there?像是「到底有哪些種類的東西存在？」 Is a number數字 as real as a chair?跟椅子一樣真實嗎 Is there a God?有沒有神存在
The famous ontological argument tries to prove God exists from the idea of God alone; you do not need to agree with it to recognise the word.
The famous ontological argument有名的ontological argument（本體論論證） tries to prove God exists from the idea of God alone想單靠「神」這個概念本身來證明神存在 you do not need to agree with it你不需要認同這個論證 to recognise the word也能認得這個字
It is a university word, not a street word. In everyday English you almost never need it; in a philosophy class you cannot avoid it.
It is a university word這是個大學裡用的詞 not a street word不是街頭上的詞 In everyday English日常英文裡 you almost never need it你幾乎用不到 in a philosophy class但在哲學課上 you cannot avoid it你躲不掉它
Computer people sometimes borrow it too, when they talk about how a system names the kinds of things in its world. That is a specialist stretch of the same idea.
Computer people sometimes borrow it too電腦領域的人有時候也會借用這個字 when they talk about how a system names the kinds of things in its world用來講一個系統怎麼替它世界裡的各種東西命名分類 That is a specialist stretch這是專業領域裡的延伸用法 of the same idea用的還是同一個概念
It does not mean Canadian, and it is not about insects.
It does not mean Canadian這個字不是「加拿大的」的意思 and it is not about insects也跟昆蟲沒有關係
組成From ontology + -ical (turns the noun into an adjective).
同家族的字
- ontologythe noun this adjective comes from: the study of what exists
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
ontologicaladj/ˌɒntəˈlɒd͡ʒɪkəl/
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Of or relating to ontology.
- A curious thing about the ontological problem is its simplicity. It can be put in three Anglo-Saxon monosyllables: ‘What is there?’ It can be answered, moreover, in a word—‘Everything’—and everyone will accept this answer as true.
- That the ruling ideology must be strictly materialist was ensured by Marxist tradition and by the need to combat religious thought in all its forms as an obstacle to revolution, as well as to avoid an ontologically neutral philosophy.
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Of or pertaining to the nature of being or existence.
- Such is the human ontological imagination, and such is the convincingness of what it brings to birth. Unpicturable beings are realized, and realized with an intensity almost like that of an hallucination.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。