Sentence examples for cannot be grasped as from inspiring English sources

Consciousness cannot be grasped as the property of an individual substance nor as anything like a substance or underlying substrate itself.

It cannot be grasped as anything at all: it things out thing after thing but is never thinged by things.

But a subtler argument that voters' economic struggles cannot be grasped by men as privileged as Mr Cameron and George Osborne, his Treasury spokesman, may work.

Since beings cannot attain such wisdom, reality as such cannot be grasped.

Because of the ropes' great size, they cannot be grasped directly; players attached smaller side-ropes to the main rope to act as handles and fray its ends to provide additional hand-holds.

See Hornsby 1997: 4 6. 7. Sullivan's ground for proposing that we regard Tractarian objects as senses is that, like bona fide Fregean senses, they cannot be grasped in different ways.

'Lulu' cannot be grasped through a prefabricated image".

What is more difficult than to "truly grasp the difficulty of what cannot be grasped, and then go forth to try anyway"?

According to Bergson, it is something that just has to be intuited and cannot be grasped by discursive reason.

Without understanding this technique and the rationale behind it, the novel cannot be grasped in its entirety.

According to Porta, these qualities are occult because their workings cannot be grasped by our intellect.