Sentence examples for characteristic of things from inspiring English sources
Put differently, the Dao can only be described as wu because it does not have any distinguishable feature or property characteristic of things.
But this might be taken as referring either to an intrinsic characteristic of things—namely that, in themselves and by nature, they possess no differentiating features — or to our natural inability to discern any such features.
This will first be done by looking at the star light passing through the atmospheres of the transiting planets and looking for the lines characteristic of things like water, oxygen and more advance organic molecules.
Variations in the painted contours of images also provide a direct method of describing the volume, weight, spatial position, light, and textural characteristics of things.
A lot of the things he's able to do are the characteristics of things he's always been able to and the gift he's been able to bring to our team".
Neckham's near-contemporary Bartholomaeus Anglicus similarly set himself in his De proprietatibus rerum ("On the Characteristics of Things") to bring to his readers' attention the nature and properties of the things and ideas on which the early Christian Fathers and the philosophers had expatiated, but he forbore to comment on their writings, leaving his readers to form their own judgments.
While Plato's Forms play a definitive role in the perceptible realm as responsible for the determinate characteristics of things, they count as a kind of present absence.
Nameless and formless, Dao can only be described as "dark" or "mysterious" (xuan) or as wu, literally "not having" any name, form, or other characteristics of things (see also chs. 21 and 32).
As with other Fringe episodes, Fox released a science lesson plan in collaboration with Science Olympiad for grade school children, focusing on the science seen in "6B", with the intention of having "students learn about spectroscopy and how it can be used to determine certain characteristics of things".
