Sentence examples for a fixed essence from inspiring English sources

Matter is agentive, not a fixed essence or product of things" (Barad 2007, p. 137).

Is identity a fixed essence or a mimic matter assembled from conventions, the first novel asked.

But Mahayana Buddhism, from which Zen evolved, teaches that all phenomena are mysterious and ungraspable – empty of any fixed essence.

"As anything that we should call contract was not of its essence... it could be used whenever a fixed sum, a sum certain, was due from one man to another.

Nonetheless, Gaitonde's development of a painting style that evoked the act of our actively perceiving terrains in the throes of creation or evolution, that is a painting style in opposition to the identifiable and fixed essence of a thing or picture of things, ties him to an existentialist ethos and mythos whether or not he intended it.

Strident invocations of the Enlightenment or some other historically and eternally fixed essence of Europe seem increasingly symptoms of intellectual lag and cultural defensiveness.

If human beings are infinitely plastic, with no fixed essence, then whatever we do to alter ourselves will not offend any preset natural order, and will not infringe the moral rights that supposedly flow from our nature.

For Śāntarakṣita, it is attachment to a fixed nature or essence in things which is at the root of the problem.

If we each treat our own position on the left-right spectrum as a fixed point, and the very essence of reasonability, then polarisation means that we'll tend to see even the nearest point on the opposite side of the ideological median drifting away from the banks of reason toward the opposite insane shore.

Science has tended to conceive human essence as a fixed object discoverable in nature.

The tool avoids problems associated with a fixed window size and in essence automatically determines the sizes of the intervals that it finds.