Sentence examples for grasp a thing from inspiring English sources

Furthermore, because cognitively gasping something involves classifying or identifying it as a thing of a certain kind, and things are classified or identified on the basis of their properties, one can't cognitively grasp a thing without properties.

Actually, we seem to grasp a thing first as a stone and then as a being in general, though in the natural order we can only know something as a stone because we have implicitly recognized it as a being.

It involves grasping a thing's causal connections not just to other objects but, more importantly, to the attributes of God and the infinite modes (the laws of nature) that follow immediately from them.

"Perhaps I am quicker in grasping a thing; and I am more likely to act more quickly".

Sam Neill, as her husband, stands and drinks And fails to grasp a single thing she thinks.

Ms. Meadow said, "I don't think people will fall asleep, but what we'll learn during previews ——" "Is whether anyone is grasping a single thing?" Ms. Peet interrupted, then rolled onto her side on a bench and tucked her legs into a fetal position.

Moreover, if the word and its denotation were identical, a blind man would grasp red or redness when he grasps the word 'red' and a deaf person would grasp the word 'red' when he grasps a red thing (Nyāyavārttikatātparyaṭīkā, p. 129).

But irony is the nuance that grasps a thing both from the inside and the outside simultaneously.

Then again, at that particular moment, I was having trouble grasping a lot of things.

And he did not grasp this thing — a deductible — that was $4,000.

Grasping consciousness is not like grasping a spatial object or thing.