Sentence examples for a certain kind of entity from inspiring English sources

If (O1) has the result that the beliefs we share commit us to a certain kind of entity then this requires us either to accept an answer to a question about what there is in the sense of (O2) or to revise our beliefs.

In brief: If we admit a certain kind of entity, we cannot but admit all the other kinds of entities that figure in the identity conditions of such an entity; we admit fictional works; so we cannot but also admit fictional objects because they figure in the identity conditions of fictional works.

Thus, granting the realistic treatment of truth values adopted by Frege, the understanding of logic as the science of truth values in fact provides logical rules with an ontological justification placing the roots of logic in a certain kind of ideal entities (see Shramko 2014).

This is the view that a certain kind of resemblance relation holds between entities of a particular type (for more on resemblance nominalism, see Armstrong 1989, 39 58).

Jewishness exists only because of "the belief of non-Jews that Jews constitute a racial entity and a certain kind of action on the part of non-Jews based on this belief".

A certain kind of faded elegance prevails.

Paper enables a certain kind of thinking.

That attracts a certain kind of person.

Or a certain kind of freedom.

Cancer confers a certain kind of myopia.

A certain kind of nomad, all.