Sentence examples for both round and square from inspiring English sources

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Both round and square aluminum tube cross sections were considered.

But according to the Meinongian picture, (2) and (3) are acceptable consequences, since they do not entail the existence of something that is both round and square.

Presentists can deny that it follows from something at one time being round that will at another time be square that there exists something both round and square.

Something that is both round and square is an impossible object, according to Meinong, which means that it cannot exist, but this does not entail that there is no such thing.

Bertrand Russell, Meinong's most famous critic, put forward two objections against MOTo.[18] The first objection goes as follows: According to MOTo, there is an object that is both round and square, but such an object is "apt to infringe the law of contradiction", since it would be both round and not round (Russell 1973c, 107).

The golden mountain does not exist, yet we can say that it is both golden and a mountain since these are the properties in terms of which the object is characterized; similarly, the round square is both round and square, even though it cannot exist.

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On the basis of the data from 3D laser scanning and a comparison with other smelting sites, both the round and square furnaces were reconstructed.

According to Meinong's characterization principle, the round square is both round and non-round, but it is not the case that (i) the round square is round and (ii) it is not the case that the round square is round (i.e., the round square is not round).

Analogously, something that encodes the properties of being round and square is neither round nor square.

After all, though something can have a round part and a square part, nothing can be round and square.

Secondly, the distinction entails that although roundness and squareness are universals, (round and square -ness isquare -ness gisenothat nothing can be round and sincee, (round and square)-ness can have no instances.

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