Sentence examples for an instance of this kind from inspiring English sources

There was an instance of this kind of maneuvering in 1934, which concerned three busts from the Dreyfus Collection — a Verrocchio, a Donatello, and a Desiderio da Settignano.

The comment from the Pytho is then cited as an instance of this kind of reply.

For the sake of argument, let's grant that the Skolemite has shown that our set-theoretic notions are relative and that, for every kind of set that we can define with a formula, there is an instance of this kind of set which is only countable.

"No law can deter every and any instance of this kind of behavior.

In a different mosquito, this shift could be an instance of the kind of plasticity that allows organisms to cope with varying conditions.

We naturally speak of the chance that this coin will lands heads on its next toss, with the chance taken to be a property of the possible outcome directly, and not mediated by some particular description of that outcome as an instance of this or that kind of trial.

Again, intuitively, it seems that one and the same construct C, structured one way, could have been an instance of one kind, and structured another, could have been an instance of a different kind.

On this view, it is senseless to call something good unless this means that it is good for someone or in some respect or for some use or at some activity or as an instance of some kind.

From the former point of view one thinks of the subject term as designating a substance, typically grasped as an instance of a kind, in which properties, designated by predicate terms, inhere.

It is an abbreviated way of saying 'that which it was for an instance of kind K to be an instance of kind K,' for instance 'that which it was (all along) for a human being to be a human being'.

But then it seems to follow from the "modal transitivity" of identity (i.e., the principle: ∀x□∀y y=x → □∀z(x=z → y=z))) that if a member of a natural kind is literally identical with a C, then it is possible that an instance of a given kind could have been an instance of a very different kind.