Amanda's grief for her father was compounded by anxiety over his ontological status.
Of course, having a valid theory of the ontological status of social groups would help.
This debate concerns the ontological status of concepts - what they are really like.
Meinong holds that objects can be divided into three categories on the basis of their ontological status.
If both parts of his argument are sound, then time must just be an illusion; it has no genuine ontological status.
Its ontological status is that it is a physical object.
Other observables do not have this compelling ontological status.
Will future presidential candidates debate the ontological status of Schrödinger's cat?
The characters from the two novels carry their ontological status with them and pass it on to those they engender.
The ontological status of such an ability is perhaps higher than that of demonic possession, but not by very much.