Sentence examples for absolute entity from inspiring English sources

So, instead of speaking of the socially marginalised and economically deprived black and Asian, we are now being invited to speak of an abstract, opaque and absolute entity called the human being, and his/her rights, which few would find disputable.

In modern terms, minus the language of yin-yang cosmology, this translates into an understanding of the Dao as "an absolute entity which is the source of the universe," as the Oxford English Dictionary (online edition, under "Tao") defines it.

For Alyngton, what characterizes quantity and differentiates it from the other accidental forms, and in particular from quality, are the following features: (1) being the appropriate measure of anything, and (2) being an absolute entity which makes it possible that material substances actually have parts outside parts (In Cat., cap. de quantitate, fols. 106v, 107r, 114v).

The term "ego identity" therefore does not indicate a substance or absolute entity that is independent of interaction, but rather a capacity for an inner coherence of emotional and cognitive states and interaction in social situations as well as an inner continuity over time.

The 'womb' occurred only in NICU A. The 'womb' was a place/space where parents and their baby were together as an absolute entity and where no interruption of physical closeness had taken place after birth; the mother, father and their baby had moved to the 'womb' straight after birth.

Although (like Ockham) he refuses to make relations into things distinct from absolute entities, he clearly ascribes them to an act of the soul by which absolute entities are compared and placed in relation to each other (an act of the referring soul [actus animae referentis]).

Beauty is not an absolute physical entity you can touch.

Nevertheless, the notion of space and time as absolute metaphysical entities was encouraged by Newton's views and formed an important part of the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, a German critical philosopher, for whom space and time were "phenomenally real" (part of the world as described by science) but "noumenally unreal" (not a part of the unknowable world of things in themselves).

Operating on the assumption that Islam exists as one singular, absolute, and coherent entity that is understood and experienced by each of the world's billion-plus Muslims in more or less the same way, non-Muslims occasionally like to offer assessments of Islam's big civilizational crisis.

Operating on the assumption that Islam exists as one singular, absolute and coherent entity that is understood and experienced by each of the world's billion-plus Muslims in more or less the same way, non-Muslims occasionally like to offer assessments of Islam's big civilisational crisis.

We selected to call the latter entity absolute radiative forcing commitment (ARFC), which shows the total energy absorbed within a given time frame in the Earth system due to the activity considered.