You can probably tell that most discussions are centered around the ontological question: did Nathan succeed in creating a conscious machine?

你可能会现大多数讨论都围绕着本体论问题：内森成功地制造出有意识的机器了吗？

So she immersed herself in theater, her childhood passion, working summers as a stage manager at places like the Ontological-Hysteric Theater.

于是，她一头扎进了童年时自己酷爱的戏剧，去了本体论—歇斯底里剧场等地方当剧务。

The revelation is a deeply consequential one, changing the ontological foundation of our perception of the world and our place within it.

启示是深远的，改变了我们对世界及我们在其中位置的本体论基础。

This is the work before it manifests into an ontological stability.

是事物在显现为存在性稳定态之前的工作。

But I can tell you that in the midst of a panic attack, of a true ontological terror, it doesn't matter if you think you're dying or if you think you're going crazy.

但在作， 真正的本体论的惧中，你是否得自己快要死了， 或者是否得自己快疯了， 些都不重要。

We fall back into egocentricity where we, right, he'll say we treat other people as extensions of ourselves, or he'll say we ascribe to them the ontological status of mere dependence on oneself.

我们退回到了自我中心的态， 在态下，我们会认为其他人是自己的一部分延伸，或者我们会认为他们只是依赖于自己的存在。

Again, Descartes used this to illustrate his  process of doubting empirical and ontological beliefs, but the same thought process can also  be applied when considering how we should spend our time.

再次， 笛卡尔用它来说明他怀疑经验和本体论信仰的过程，但同样的思维过程也可以应用于考虑我们应该如何度过我们的时间。

But the ontological is folded into history from the start.

但是本体论从一开始就被折叠成了历史。

The very idea of substance includes its existence, for " existence appertains to substance" and " therefore from its mere definition its existence can be concluded." This resembles Anselm's ontological argument and raises the same problems.

物质的概念本身就包括它的存在，因为“存在属于物质”，并且“因此，从它的单纯定义中就可以得出它的存在”。类似于安瑟伦的本体论论证，并提出了同样的问题。

The theories that may lead us towards an ontological characterization of metaphors are mainly, and naturally, the visualist-formalist theories that were formulated in the late 1960s and onwards.

可能引导我们走向隐喻本体论特征的理论，主要是，自然而然地， 是在 1960 年代后期及以后形成的视主义-形式主义理论。

A containment metaphor is an ontological metaphor in which some concept is represented as (i) having an inside and outside, and (ii) capable of holding something else.

包容隐喻是一本体论隐喻， 其中某些概念被表示为（i）具有内部和外部，以及（ii）能够容纳其他东西。

Aristotle has a particular interest in the birth of tragedy, but, unlike Nietzsche and many influenced by him, doesn't attribute any ontological significance to its genesis story.

亚里士多德对悲剧的诞生特别感兴趣，但与尼采和受他影响的许多人不同，亚里士多德并未赋予其起源故事任何本体论意义。

And so this commitment can be understood both as an ontological commitment and as an epistemological commitment.

承诺可以被理解为一本体论承诺，也可以被理解为一认识论承诺。

Well, there's a duality of hemispheric specialization, and that implies a kind of ontological duality, essentially.

好吧，大脑半球的专业化存在二元性，本质上暗示了一本体论的二元性。

I think the reaction that we're having, Wes, is that, in a way that makes a lot of sense to you, have translated the weirdness that we're seeing here into the very familiar, oh, we know ontological argument, we know cosmological argument.

我得我们现在的反应，韦斯，从某角度来说对你很有道理：我们把里看到的怪异现象，转化成了非常熟悉的东西——哦，我们知道本体论论证，我们也知道宇宙论论证。

And I think, you know, late 20th century, you know, all of these schools of thought, like postmodernism, structuralism came into being and just really started to question the sort of ontological epistemological sort of commitments of realism.

我认为，你知道的，20世纪末，所有些思想流派，如后现代主义、结构主义等应运而生， 它们开始真正质疑现实主义所持有的那本体论和认识论的承诺。

The lack of inner order manifests itself in the subjective condition that some call ontological anxiety or existential dread.

内在秩序的缺失表现为一主观态，有些人称之为本体焦虑或存在性惧。

His argument against the ontological proof is that it is all a verbal exercise.

他反对本体论证明的论点是，都是一口头练习。

Although both strategies might be seen as different ways of coping with the same threat of chaos as defenses against ontological anxiety, the former leads to growth, while the latter merely serves to keep the mind from unraveling.

尽管两策略都可能被视为应对相同混乱威胁、作为对抗本体论焦虑的防御机制的不同方式，前者却能带来成长， 而后者仅仅是为了防止心灵崩溃。

Moreover, the lack of ontological discussion of metaphors does not reflect the nature of the medium of metaphor itself, which clearly has a bearing both on ontological categories and on specific objects or phenomena.

此外，缺乏对隐喻的本体论讨论并不能反映隐喻媒介本身的性质，显然与本体论范畴和特定对象或现象都有关系。