Sentence examples for Kind essence from inspiring English sources

What Newton did, in effect, was to subsume these individual "event kinds" into a more general natural kind comprised of sub-kinds sharing a kind essence, namely being caused by an inverse-square attractive force.

Other types of proposition that are both necessary and a posteriori, according to Kripke, are statements of material origin, such as "This table is made of (a particular piece of) wood," and statements of natural-kind essence, such as "Water is H2O".

The smaller his paintings are, the more concentrated the image, reduced to a kind of essence.

Pope wasn't talking about genius in the modern sense; he meant a kind of essence or spirit of the land.

Nor is it difficult for us to read Max's pronounced sexual diffidence as a parallel to his lack of writing force, a kind of essence of the way he kept carefully hanging back, always hovering on the edges of commitment and seriousness.

This was the first ever occasion of its kind: in essence, a European state funeral.

Third, knowing a kind's essence helps us explain and predict those properties typically associated with a kind.

Perhaps death, too, is a natural kind whose essence is obscure (a possibility entertained in Chiong 2005, 24 25).

The explanatory requirement: citing a kind's essence is central in explaining the properties typically associated with the members of that kind.

Another direction in which to take the thesis that death is not amenable to classical definition is to argue that death is a natural kind whose essence may be obscure.

Her strategy in response to this is to speak back from the margins to which women have been relegated and to claim some kind of "essence" for women, and along with that a set of rights that are specifically for girls and women (Irigaray 1994 and 1996).