Sentence examples for concrete particular from inspiring English sources

In understanding expression, our attitude passes from mere curiosity to that immediate awareness of the concrete particular that is the core of aesthetic experience.

Now we have a flood of original ideas in all media, works of singular beauty as well as significant milestones in the history of inflation, but at that moment there was only this balloon, concrete particular, hanging there".

According to Brentano's later philosophy, things are concrete (particular) entities.

First, that what happens to constitute the concrete particular could exist and not constitute any particular.

Exactly how a concrete particular behaves is of course a matter that can be debated.

More precisely, a concrete particular consists of a sufficient number of mutually compresent tropes.

The abstract morality of the sentencing contrasted with the concrete particulars of the crime, which were presented on the second day of the trial.

"I think he's backed up his policies with concrete particulars, and I like the way he presents himself," said Mr. Garlick, who is 43 and usually votes Conservative.

Accordingly, the proper business of the rational soul was thought, and the proper objects of thought were not concrete particulars but abstract essences, which he called Ideas, or Forms.

Nothing if not astringent, Mr. Markovics smartly concentrates on the concrete particulars of Roman's life — on his humble belongings, the faces of his morgue co-workers, the curiously banal work of caring for the dead — which keeps the film firmly tethered in his everyday experience.

Modal realism, in the uncompromising form defended by the American philosopher David Lewis, is the view that there exists a (very large) plurality of worlds, each of which is a spatiotemporally (and therefore causally) closed system, disjoint from all others and comprising its own distinctive collection of concrete particulars, replete with all their properties and relations to each other.