Sentence examples for essence of objects from inspiring English sources
"For what my work is aiming at is, above all, realism: I pursue the inner, hidden reality, the very essence of objects in their own intrinsic findamental nature; this is my only deep preoccupation".
With 'objects' he does not refer to sensually perceived entities but to the more complex essence of objects (on Meinong's object-theoretic basis).
First, he defines the real essence of physical objects as the internal constitution of the substance that is the cause of the observable qualities of the object.
To understand what speculative etymology amounts to, it is useful to refer to the Cratylus (383a-d), where Plato presents his well-known naturalist thesis about word meaning: natural kind terms express the essence of the objects they name and words are appropriate to their referents insofar as they describe what their referents are (see the entry on Plato's Cratylus).
She could even channel the essence of inanimate objects, like a tampon or a grain of sand.
In terms of his own textual definition of magic, Madara cites a quotation from Jesper Sørensen's 2006 book, A Cognitive Theory of Magic Magicis is about changing the state or essence of persons, objects, acts and events through certain special and non-trivial kinds of actions with opaque causal mediation".
Each hieroglyphic word both represented a specific object and embodied the essence of that object, recognizing it as divinely made and belonging within the greater cosmos.
Grasping the meaning or essence of an object has meant, since Plato, a type of disengagement from or suspension of an object's immediate and present existence.
Although this would not be a sensory perception of an object, to Mally it is the emotional impression or feeling that reveals the "essence of the object" considered.
(So did Barthes, who derived a lively thought from the artist's degradation of graphic symbols: "The essence of an object has something to do with the way it turns into trash").
