Sentence examples for indispensable point of reference from inspiring English sources

His philosophy of the "middle way" (madhyamaka) based around the central notion of "emptiness" (śūnyatā) influenced the Indian philosophical debate for a thousand years after his death; with the spread of Buddhism to Tibet, China, Japan and other Asian countries the writings of Nāgārjuna became an indispensable point of reference for their own philosophical inquiries.

In The Beginning of Philosophy (1997a), Gadamer also takes Plato and Aristotle as providing the indispensable point of entry to an understanding of Pre-Socratic thought.

"There's no point of reference.

I had no point of reference".

Another point of reference is Hitchcock.

But we can use Facebook as a point of reference.

It is his only fixed point of reference.

For unstated reasons, that point of reference surfaced only glancingly.

Ephron has a different point of reference now.

(Point of reference: the huge Chevrolet Suburban has 108.2 cubic feet).

The Placa de Catalunya is a handy point of reference.