Sentence examples for concept thing from inspiring English sources

In his "Essay Towards a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language," from 1668, Wilkins laid out a sprawling taxonomic tree that was intended to represent a rational classification of every concept, thing, and action in the universe.

Donald Westlake is on to it, too, but he is very good at that concept thing he does, gliding along the story's icy surface, so that is mostly where he stays.

See that tablet concept thing designed by design agency BERG?

Seesmic already has a number of UK advocates and users, but some have been less than impressed by its somewhat tricky interface, calling it crappy, buggy, bloated [update: rest of the sentence was "adorable, prototype proof of concept thing they knocked up, but my legs are just tired from using bicycle pedals to fly an aeroplane".] and just plain crap.

"You know they're going to be extra-hard on you because you've got this high-concept thing.

That seems to be the difficult choice, however, with these high-concept things.

(Pragmatic notions are logical concepts, things that can be clearly discerned and confirmed, while Enigmatic notions are just that -- complex, illusive, opaque to observation).

But concepts, things and people are transient and fluid, so again, you will always find yourself bowing down at the altar of uncertainty.

Every philosophy must take a stand somewhere on a spectrum running from a concept of things as unfeeling matter to one of things as psychic or sentient.

The concept of "thing" itself just as much as all its qualities.

Oh, and unlike the similar Microsoft Courier concept, this thing is real and available for $499 right now.