Sentence examples for a particular being from inspiring English sources

There is a continuum here from God, angels, and human beings through animals to stones and the dull monads which underlie the muck and grime of the world; and this continuum is not solely to be understood in terms of the comparative clarity of the mind's perceptions but also in terms of the kinds of mental activity possible for a particular being.

The reason why he postulates the existence of this eternal "chain of cognitions" is the argument that no cognition could be caused by anything other than a previous cognition and hence there cannot be a first cognition for anything we call a particular being.

Which is not to say that I have any strong religious belief in a particular being that is controlling the pathways of our lives.

Unity, truth, and goodness add nothing to a particular being over and above what is already there; everything that is a being is also one, true, and good in virtue of the very same characteristics.

Nevertheless, Being-itself should not be construed as a particular being, thus ruling out pictorial theism's anthropomorphism.

If there was a first cognition for a particular being then, according to Śāntarakṣita (TS 1878 1885), there would be five options: i) the first cognition does not have a cause; ii) it is produced by an eternal cause; iii) it is eternal and unchanging; iv) it is caused by any other substance; and v) it is caused by a cognition "from another chain".

The notion of a particular is in many respects unclear.

Perhaps the notion of a particular is such a case.

Intuitively, of course, a bare particular is an unpropertied object.

Hughes in particular was a disappointment.

He, in particular, is a devoted friend.