Sentence examples for class of beings from inspiring English sources

(The former term, if not the latter, presupposes a particular position on one question about the nature of being: that everything is, that the universal class is the class of beings, the class of things that are. It thus presupposes that Meinong was wrong to say that "there are things of which it is true that there are no such things").

Thus, these beings are not "others," or objects, and ought not be oppressed as if they are a marginalized, lower class of beings.

Its plural form gradually predominated and came to designate a class of beings opposed to the Vedic gods.

Asura, ( Sanskrit: "divine") Iranian ahura, in Hindu mythology, class of beings defined by their opposition to the devas or suras (gods).

"Phyro-Giants" (the title comes from a story Melvin tells about a schizophrenic who imagines a highly intelligent class of beings) is his first theatrical play.

According to the Court, when the Constitution was drafted, some 60 years earlier, its authors would not have intended that 'a subordinate and inferior class of beings' qualified as citizens of the United States.

Prajapati of the Upanishads is popularly personified as the god Brahma, who creates all classes of beings and dispenses benefits.

Of this grouping, six of an original ten disciples and all eight of the Eight Classes of Beings (designated as protectors or guardians of Buddhism) are extant.

The Visp-rat ("All the Judges") is a Yasna augmented here and there by additional invocations and offerings to the ratus (lords) of the different classes of beings.

Suhrawardi's metaphysics of lights rests on at least two central principles which account for all the basic classes of beings (light and darkness, substance and state, independent and dependent beings).

These are three teachings from Avicenna's philosophy, namely (1) that the word has no beginning in the past and is not created in time, (2) that God's knowledge includes only classes of beings (universals) and does not extend to individual beings and their circumstances (particulars), and (3) that after death the souls of humans will never again return into bodies.