Sentence examples for class of entities from inspiring English sources

As was noted above, the absence of this ability to refer to a class of entities is typical of a name.

A general appellative (i.e., a common noun) capable of being used in reference to a whole class of entities can also be used with an individual reference.

In ordinary language, "individual" refers to an organism or a person, but Gould is using it in the sense of a particular entity rather than a class of entities.

Its values are supposed to be members of some fixed class of entities, called individuals, a class that is variously known as the universe of discourse, the universe presupposed in an interpretation, or the domain of individuals.

In this case the term meaning is radically different from that in the case of common nouns, in which the "meaning" is their ability to be used in reference to a class of entities, to denote or designate them.

As "Camus at Combat," a new collection of his editorials — he was a working journalist — makes plain, the experience, first, of the Nazi occupation of France, and then of the struggle of Algerian independence against France led him to conclude that the "primitive" impulse to kill and torture shared a taproot with the habit of abstraction, of thinking of other people as a class of entities.

5 Uses a single CRF to identify SYSTEMATIC, TRIVIAL, FAMILY, ABBREVIATION, FORMULA and IDENTIFIER entities and specifically labels each class of entity.

Yet other constructions should be seen more as reductions of one class of entity to another, or replacements of one notion by a more precise, mathematical, substitute.

The traditional realism versus nominalism debate is an ontological debate over whether in order to account for properties we need to invoke a class of entity, universals (see Section 1.2 above).

Like a dork, I looked up the word "naga" in Wikipedia, and it turns out that it refers to "a deity or class of entity or being, taking the form of a very great snake specifically the King Cobra, found in Hinduism and Buddhism".

DES models have a time dimension as entities change state through time; have activities (e.g. consultations) that may require the co-operation of more than a single class of entity (e.g. between doctors and patients); and contain processes in the form of a chronological sequence of activities through which an entity must or may pass (e.g. patients pathways).