Sentence examples for in relation to things from inspiring English sources

Femininity is the part of our psyche that seeks to understand and relate, and see ourselves in relation to things.

This fixed the dollar in relation to metal but not in relation to things, like shoes or yarn, that dollars could buy.

To get the most from next-generation technology, it should accommodate our different likes and preferences in relation to things, people, place, and time, tailoring its functionality to those preferences.

"She heard, as if from a great distance, people using the word 'beautiful' in relation to things like trees or sunsets, but her faculty for understanding things like this had been so crippled that the attempt to comprehend what people were saying when they spoke like this filled her with a kind of panic".

(Such arguments are complicated, however, by the fact that certain theories of mental content contend that such content too can only be understood in relation to things outside of the speaker's head. See the entry on externalism about mental content).

8, says, "The intellect is what makes universality in things," and Avicenna says the same in his Metaphysicae V, cap. 2. Although this nature understood in the intellect has the notion of a universal in relation to things outside the soul (because it is one likeness of them all), as the nature has existence in this intellect or in that one, it is a certain particular understood species".

As Buber always understood it, human wholeness lies in the meeting of the one with the other in a living fourfold relation to things, individual persons, the mystery of Being, and self.

The same is true of dependence, as far as the relation to things in the world is concerned.

The internalist denies an assumption common to all of the approaches above: the assumption that in giving the content of an expression, we are primarily specifying something about that expression's relation to things in the world which that expression might be used to say things about.

Things appear big or small, for example, only in relation to other things; knowledge and ignorance are meaningful only in relation to each other.

As for the novel itself, the whole conception, the way one's seen the thing, felt about it, made it stand in relation to other things, not one in a million cares for that".