Therefore, he argues that secondary substances are metaphysical entities existing outside our minds that are necessary conditions for our language to be meaningful, as general names would be meaningless if they did not signify something that both exists in reality, and have the peculiar feature of being common to (i.e., present in) many individual things.
Behavioral ecologists are interested in understanding why animal behaviors like this have the peculiar features they do.
Some modern commentators have suggested that the peculiar features of maritime limitation of liability have outlived their usefulness, and that the development of insurance and of the modern limited-liability company has radically altered the conditions out of which the shipowners' privilege originally grew.
The main goal of this book is to describe in physical terms the peculiar features of "machines" having molecular dimensions that play the principal role in the most important biological processes, such as energy transduction and enzyme catalysis.
Moreover, in order to cope with the peculiar features of femtocells, two new path loss models have been introduced.
The landscape of the area has peculiar features, such as the vineyards that cover hilly lands, dry-stone walls, trees among the vines, historical chestnuts and buildings.
Food safety experts say the outbreak has peculiar features that should alarm regulators and consumers alike, particularly the number of people who are coming down with a form of the disease that is resistant to antibiotics.
In the apicomplexan parasites Plasmodium falciparum, the causative agent of human malaria, and Toxoplasma gondii, causing toxoplasmosis, LA metabolism has some peculiar features that might be exploitable for future drug development.
