Sentence examples for having a certain property from inspiring English sources

This illustrates the fact that the principle of abstraction implies the existence of sets the elements of which are all objects having a certain property.

will be identified with God's having a certain property, or being in a certain relation, at a time (or timelessly).

Like (1), it asserts the general possibility of an individual having a certain property, viz., being a son of Ratzinger — so far so good.

Knowledge by (definite) description obtains "when we know that it [i.e. the object] is 'the so-and-so', i.e. when we know that there is one object, and no more, having a certain property" (ibid., 53).

This sentence asserts the existence of a set of individuals having a certain property; it does not entail, for example, that there are two critics who admire each other and admire no others.

In words, AC1L asserts that, if each predicate having a certain property \ \Phi\) has instances, then there is a function \(F\) on predicates such that, for any predicate \(X\) satisfying \ \Phi\), \(FX\) is an instance of \(X\).

Stephen tried to pick up on Gary's idea that the Fibonacci sequence was special among "our sets" in the sense that it was minimal among those of our sets which had a certain property and that every one of our sets was dominated by sets with this property.

For a finite set A, if it has been shown that the assertion ∀x ∊ A¬ϕ(x) leads to a contradiction, ∃x ∊ Aϕ(x) can be verified by looking at each element of A in turn; i.e., the statement that no members of a given set have a certain property can be disproved by examining in turn each element of the set.

It is more natural to take an utterance of (56) as denying that John has a certain property.

When we say that a certain individual actually has a certain property, we mean that he has that property at the actual world.

This type of machine produces no output, but instead tells whether or not the input string has a certain property.