Sentence examples for a definite individual from inspiring English sources

Of course, the matter may be construed as constituting a definite individual substance (the wood just is, one might say, the particular desk it composes), but it is in that sense not separate from the form or shape that makes it that substance (the wood cannot be that particular desk unless it is a desk).

There is the "form of the body" (forma corporeitatis) that makes a given parcel of matter to be a definite, unique, individual human body, and the "animating form" or soul, which makes that human body alive.

What is needed is a definite, actual individual being that exists "in an absolutely final form".

Personal supposition is divided into 'discrete' and 'common' supposition, the former occurring when the term is used to refer to a definite, particular individual, as in 'that man is running', and the second when it is used to refer to whatever falls under the signification of the term.

For the fourth type of correlation, Lévi-Strauss cited examples from Polynesia and Africa where definite individual animals formed the object of group patronage and veneration.

Horkheimer criticizes the modern philosophical and legal subject as abstract, detached, and ahistorical; whatever freedom and autonomy actors have, they are best understood as "definite individuals" whose freedom is exercised in relation others and in historically specific societies.

What the actualist denies is that there is a definite (non-actual) individual a such that a could have been Bergoglio's child; that there is a possible world in which it is true that a is Bergoglio's child.

The outbreak control team used the following case definitions: A definite case was defined as an individual with laboratory confirmed diagnosis of influenza.

"We had a family of travelers who had an elderly parent, children and grandchildren and that made us realize that there was a definite need for more individual offerings," she said.

"There's a definite contraction of foundation and individual support that has caught up with them".

A review of diagnosis timelines for patients with ALS over a 20 year period at one treatment centre in the United Kingdom found that the time from the first symptoms experienced by an individual to a definite diagnosis of ALS had remained relatively stable at approximately 12 months [ 13].