Ontological-security is a human-made psychological concept describing the need for a stable, coherent sense of self and world-order. Parameters: (1) existential confidence — the feeling that one's identity and worldview are real and stable; (2) routine practices — habitual actions that reproduce and reassure the sense of continuity; (3) threat response — anxiety or disorientation when routines are disrupted. Persistence mechanism: therapeutic practice, philosophical discourse, social rituals, and narrative structures that maintain existential confidence across generations. [formal: securitas ontologica | substrate: mind | horizon: a life | explicit: yes | epoch: 0.17]
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ontological-security
Ontological-security is a human-made psychological concept describing the need for a stable, coherent sense of self and world-order. Parameters: (1) existential confidence — the feeling that one's identity and worldview are real and stable…
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Human-made psychological concept describing the need for a stable, coherent sense of self and world-order. Persists through therapeutic practice, philosophical discourse, and social rituals that maintain existential confidence.
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Ontological security is the confidence in continuity of self-identity and the regularity of social environment. Per removal test (Law 8): remove identity and ontological security ceases to operate — the mechanism it describes (stabilizing confidence in self-continuity) has nothing to stabilize. This is object-level, not meta-level: ontological security operates ON identity as its target, not merely as a concept needing language to be said.
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Ontological-security IS a specific kind of concept: Giddens' sociological concept describing the feeling of continuity and safety in one's identity and existence. A competent speaker would accept 'ontological-security is a concept.' Nearest kind is concept, which has no closer parent.
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Ontological-security (Giddens) is the feeling of continuity and safety in one's identity and existence. It serves identity by maintaining the coherence of self-concept across time and social situations.
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