Sentence examples for Universal essence from inspiring English sources

MIT linguist Shigeru Miyagawa explains how the hidden similarities of English, Japanese, and some forms of Bantu reveal language's universal essence.

The sex passages in The Rainbow were not understood, in 1915, as ritual enactments of the universal essence, but as dirt.

Accordingly, there is no universal essence in singular individuals.

In this way, Wyclif establishes a close connection between singular essence and essential being, on the one hand, and a real identity between universal and individual (that is, between universal essence and singular essence), on the other hand.

In his being-one, Feuerbach argues, God is everything-as-one, and is, as such, the universal essence in which all finite essences are "grounded, contained and conceived [begriffen]" (GTU 241/48).

Essential being is the level of being that matches singular essence, while actual existence is in a certain way accidental to the singular essence, as the latter is nothing else but the universal essence considered as informing matter.

When faced with Abelard's arguments against material essence realism, William gave up his belief in universal essences but refused to accept that universals are simply words or concepts.

Avicenna's core idea was to differentiate between two components of universals: essence and universality.

The usual assumption from Boethius at least until the end of the thirteenth century was that the understanding is of some kind of universal, an essence or common nature, and when logicians asked whether spoken words primarily signified concepts or things, the issue was whether concepts or common natures should be taken as the primary significates of an utterance.

The history of philosophy remembers William for his two theories of universals, material essence realism and indifference realism.

Santayana concludes that if one attempts to find the bedrock of certainty, one may rest his claim only after he has, at least theoretically, recognized that knowledge is composed of instances of awareness that in themselves do not contain the prerequisites for knowledge, e.g., concepts, universals, or essences.