##  [Ontological Gap](/index.php/ontological-gap) 

  ##  [Ontological Gap](https://humanitites.quantumdictionary.io/ontological-gap-0) 

  

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Definition

A substantive discontinuity in an ontology or conceptual scheme where adjacent categories lack any admissible or intelligible bridging entities, relations, or principles that would render them mutually explanatory or continuous; the gap indicates a structural absence rather than merely missing information.