Sentence examples for accidental feature from inspiring English sources

– Ashwin Seshagiri When the Thing People Like Isn't What You Set Out to Do Forbes |  When an accidental feature becomes your entire business.

And the premise for that change is an accidental feature of the architecture of copyright law: that it regulates copies.

Moreover, as a mode of the self, fallen-ness is not an accidental feature of Dasein, but rather part of Dasein's existential constitution.

Denominative predication obtains in the case that the predicate is true of the subject as the result of the subject's possession of some further, accidental, feature.

This unibility (unibilitas) or aptitude to be united with the body is not an accidental feature but something essential to the human intellective soul (QLIIS 7, 27).

This definition fails to capture the sophist by even an accidental feature, but instead snares a distinct kind called by the same name owing to a superficial resemblance.

Here one may point to the widespread existence of verbal games themselves, based on the accidental features of a particular language.

The distinction between essential and accidental features of a thing would therefore have to be drawn in some other way.

The case is similar if we disregard the accidental features of some particular thing (John Marenbon, for instance) and are left just with his nature of man.

This is perhaps clearest in the Categories, where the ability of substance to admit incompatible accidental features is more-or-less definitional.

But non-essential qualitative or accidental features of a thing are posterior to the thing itself, since although the substance must have some accidental features, precisely which ones it has is a matter of historical chance (Scotus, Ordinatio II, d. 3, p. 1, q. 4, n. 87 (Scotus [OO], 7 432-433; Spade (1994), 79)).