Sentence examples for but rather modes from inspiring English sources

For Spinoza, finite minds are not themselves substances, but rather modes of thinking substance.

Since Descartes clearly held that sensible qualties are not the forms of material things but rather modes of the mind, the only sense in which sensible qualites could be "in" the various dispositions of objects is in the causal sense, that is, as their effects.

Defense minister Jean-Yves Le Drian tried to calm critics by arguing that the "black boxes" would "not target individuals," but rather "modes of communications that suggest terrorist activity".

Contradictory negation is not a one-place operator taking propositions into propositions, but rather a mode of predication, a way of combining subjects with predicates: a given predicate can be either affirmed or denied of a given subject.

This is because Sally's belief, which is truly reported by (5), does not involve Bill himself but rather some mode of presentation of Bill.

This doesn't affect our understanding of the taxonomy or relationships of these animals (there are too many other details of their anatomy that firmly sort out who is who and to which group they belong) but it does mean they were rather mode diverse than previously realised.

There is thus no opposition between individual and collective EHR use, but rather complementary usage modes, both contributing to improved quality of the healthcare system.

In fact, in a subsequent study, Perfect et al. refined this interpretation, suggesting that the effect of processing the Navon stimuli on face recognition does not reflect transfer of either global- or local-level processing but, rather, whether the mode of processing the face, automatic or controlled, corresponds with the mode of processing the Navon stimuli.

For example, Giles conceives of time not as a quantity pertaining to every kind of motion, but rather as a mode in which motion exists.

It's not to say that most gamers are active misogynists, but rather their default mode of receiving gendered opinions tend to follow certain lines.

As we have seen, Wang Bi had countered that "emptiness" need not suggest the absence of emotion, but rather an enlightened mode of being marked by a heart-mind that is not bound by emotional or other attachments.