Sentence examples for a class of things from inspiring English sources

(A universal is a quality or property that each individual member of a class of things must possess if the same general word is to apply to all the things in that class. Redness, for example, is a universal possessed by all red objects).

It is not a property of things nor an accidental quality, not a substance, and not a class of things.

Domains whose features are independent of each other and vary continuously lack the entitivity, in most cases, to be recognized as a class of things worth classifying.

The Manual of Reason (TSD 3d) refines the idea: it defines a 'definition' of a class of things as any characteristic which is co-extensive with that class.

Again, in answer to the problem of unity and plurality — e.g., how can a thing be individual and distinct and yet a member of a class of things of the same kind?

What is striking is that while it can certainly be argued as these thinkers do that a meaningful term presents both a class of things to which it applies and another to which it does not apply, it is difficult to see how the latter would or should occupy a privileged place.

Abstract ideas arise through a process in which facts about time and space are stripped away from particular members of a class of thing leaving the abstract idea that represents common characteristics (EIP 3.2).

So, again, it served its purpose well and created a really quiet and powerful machine using it for a certain class of things, it just didn't necessarily have the flexibility that we need to have.

Dioptase features a customizable middleware architecture that is versatile enough to be deployed on a large class of Things that vary significantly in terms of resource availability (e.g., sensors, smartphones or plug computers), provided these Things are able to communicate directly through the Internet infrastructure (typically the average Things that use 6LoWPAN) [15].

Such inferences are indispensable, given that it is seldom possible to sample all the members of a given class of things.

Perhaps there is a natural class of things to which all universals belong but which contains other things as well (and is not the class of all things).