Sentence examples for external thing from inspiring English sources

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I hope there isn't any kind of external thing that comes in here to change that".

"Humanity has put up with computing being this external thing," says Kraft. "We'll look back and see an image of someone with their head in a piece of glass typing with two thumbs and wonder why we walked around our planet like that, so disengaged.

The object of perception is the external thing (DSF 110 11) and not the image by which the thing is known (quo res cognoscitur) (QLIS 89, 280).

That is, the mind is not the adequate cause of the affect; rather, it responds to some external thing, which can thus be considered the active cause.

The theory raises the question about the correspondence between the image made by the soul in imitating one received in the sense organs rather than by taking in the species of the external thing.

But since the external thing is fashioned after its divine idea, the "retouching" of the concept in terms of the original idea does yield a better representation of the thing; indeed, so much better that on the basis of this "retouched" concept we are even able to judge just how well the thing realizes its kind.

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There are more than external things".

I'm doing more things to get my brain thinking about external things.

Barlow's core belief is this: people aren't afraid of external things.

CUMMING -- We eliminated a lot of the external things that you see on Hollywood sets.

I feel like we have more control over our destiny than outside forces or external things".

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