Sentence examples for fictitious entity from inspiring English sources

Her installation envisions a borderless North American continent — a fictitious entity called the United States of North America — and encourages museum visitors to apply for a passport that will make them citizens.

Mr. Gordon told the court he created a fictitious entity to which he routed money after he was unable to create an insurance hedge for a Merrill transaction in 2000.

Missing the irony, France recently imposed a maximum working week of 35 hours a person, hoping to share out available work.Bastiat also delivered witty one-liners: the state, he said, "is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else".

Prosecutors say an undercover investigation revealed that the alderman, Arenda Troutman, accepted a $5,000 cash bribe and agreed to accept $10,000 more, as well as a $5,000 political contribution, in exchange for using her office to support zoning changes on behalf of a private developer — a developer that was, in fact, a fictitious entity set up as part of the investigation.

An eternal entity is always existent and a fictitious entity does not exist at any time: as these are not characterized by occasional existence, these are not caused.

He defined a fictitious entity as "a mere nothing" and "no proposition by which any property is ascribed to it can therefore be in itself and of itself a true one, nor therefore an instructive one".

Can Mr. Singer, whose directing credits include "X-Men" and "Valkyrie," elevate giants to the pantheon of possibly fictitious entities that we need to fear, along with vampires, zombies, dragons and ghosts?

"The 'doer' is merely a fiction added to the deed," Nietzsche wrote in "On the Genealogy of Morals," and the implication was clear: If God was dead, so too were equally fictitious entities like the self.

The technique of "paraphrasis" was the key instrument Bentham employed to demystify fictitious entities.

But moral rights and duties can attach only to real persons; "fictitious entities have no rights" (Graff 1994, 194).

In Bentham's theory of language general terms have no corresponding reality: words, ideas and propositions must represent or describe "real entities", which may be either "perceptions" or "substances" (UC lxix, 62 63), or they are "fictitious entities".