Sentence examples for another thing distinct from inspiring English sources

But for the very same reason the description is unacceptable from a first-person point of view, for the subject who is taken in: no one, Socrates insists, would ever say to themselves that Socrates is Theaetetus or that one thing is another thing distinct from it (190a-c).

Autrecourt argues that motion is not a thing distinct from the moving object.

One item in this chain of argument has some textual support in Ockham: he did not believe that the relation of efficient causality was a thing distinct from its relata (Ockham, Quodlibet VI, qu. 12: Opera Theologica IX, pp. 629ff).

Where there was no separation of things by type, now there are things, distinct from one another.

What counts is their specificity, as things distinct from other things that are like them.

So some mental states are not about their causes; they are about things distinct from their causes (Buras, 2009, p. 117).

But keeping things distinct isn't always great in an enterprise workflow, since you could miss something important if it's in a room where you don't normally visit.

Now Dignāga defined things similar to the subject as things distinct from the subject (p) and having the property to be established (S), while he defined things dissimilar from the subject as things not having the property to be established (S).

Although the apple that grows on that branch will be true to the mother tree's DNA, the seeds will be heterozygous, combining equal and unique parts of both parents' genes so that every seed is distinct — another thing apple trees and humans have in common.

But there was an odd thing: a distinct lack of people.

We are a third thing, a distinct mode of transportation, requiring different practices and different rules.