Sentence examples for essential definitions of the from inspiring English sources

However, we have seen that Aquinas relies upon the distinction between nominal definitions of terms and essential definitions of the subjects referred to by those terms.

Any proposition in which the predicate is included in the essential definition of the subject is knowable in itself.

So in the first mode, if one immediately knew the essential definition of the subject, one would immediately know that a particular proposition is per se true simply by knowing that its predicate is included within that essential definition.

In what looks like a proto-existential move, Descartes rejected the traditional essential definitions of man in favor of a radical, first-person reflection on his own existence, the "I am".

It turns out that if you practice finding the meanings of proverbs, you can get better at finding the same kind of essential definitions of problems you are trying to solve.

If Aristotle is following the method described in the Analytics, these causal explanations should at the same time point us to essential definitions of what it is to be a windpipe or to be viviparous.

In Sect. 2 some essential definitions of fractional calculus is proposed.

The essential definition of D was shown in the central panel of Fig. 1, where N is the number of M-B frames (N = 8) and M is the number of split spectrum (M = 4).

"The essential definition of what's an app has shifted," Hillman says.

For instance, if we suppose that H2O is the essential definition of water, we have to recognize that there will be many who will not know it.

The argument seems to be that, failing some essential definition of an assault weapon, no assault weapon can be believed to exist — not only should they not be banned, they cannot be banned because they are not a fixed, eternal category in the mind of the god of guns.