Sentence examples for actual particulars from inspiring English sources

Thus the early pramāṇavāda thinkers like Dignāga and Dharmakīrti can be considered to hold a soft form of connotationism in that they would reject a denotationist view that considers words to apply directly to actual particulars.

Many emotions, such as love, necessarily involve a target, or actual particular at which they are directed.

The set of actual particular desires of citizens is not the basis of determining whether they could possibly consent to a law.

Let's talk about what's actually in the Ryan plan, and let's distinguish in particular between actual, specific policy proposals and unsupported assertions.

Armstrong has an actualist combinatorialist theory of possibility, according to which what is possible is determined by appropriate combinations of actual elements (particulars and universals).

That is, he does not restrict the possibility of metaphysical reality only to actual empirical particulars and he advocates the multiplicity and not singularity of the essence (understood, in Goethean terms, as a harmony and not a unity of truth).

The regulatory nature of the infrastructure regime is therefore mainly dependent on the actual and particular interplay between stakeholders concerning the choice for a (more) public or a (more) private regime of the local or regional network.

Since words do not apply to actual objects or particulars which are ineffable, Śāntarakṣita, like his predecessors Dharmakīrti and Dignāga, needs to explain how it is that we are talking about the world, while at the same time making it clear that we are not talking about the world, but our conceptual scheme.

Gee noted that the actual evidence linking particular disorders with specific exposures was not very strong, but suggested that this was only to be expected given the limitations of applying current scientific methods to complex multi-causal and often reciprocal systems and disease processes.

The unproved assumption behind Gross's expressive and symbolic theory is that rhythm is in some way iconic to human feeling: that a particular rhythm or metre symbolizes, as a map locates the features of an actual terrain, a particular kind of feeling.

Given both the difference in nature and in discretion of powers involved, government interventions need to be clear on whether addressing a specific failure or possible improvement in service to a particular actual public interest (e.g., electricity reliability) or a meta-public concern (e.g., fair competition).