Sentence examples for individual things as from inspiring English sources

Because it has individual things as its object and is shared with brute animals, however, sensory knowledge is a lower form of awareness than scientific knowledge, which is characterized by generality.

He praises his predecessors in the sciences, because, "having discerned well about the nature of wholes, they were likely also to see well how things are in their parts" and to "have correct understanding about individual things as they are".

Our minds are able to correlate various categories of judgment, such as color, size, shape, location, etc., and therefore to perceive individual things as composed of unique combinations of various qualities.

After an introductory discussion of the nature and subject of metaphysics for Aquinas, Wippel devotes the first part of the book to Aquinas's view of existence in order to unpack what it means to talk about individual things as beings, being in general, and the catagories of Aristotle 73-744).

Ockham's nominalism does not require the elimination of simple connotative concepts after all; its main relevant thesis, on the contrary, is that their use is ontologically harmless since they do not signify (either primarily or secondarily) anything but individual things, as their nominal definitions are supposed to make it clear.

This idea is the basis of Kilwardby's moderate realism of universals and his doctrine of the plurality of substantial forms: universal forms genera and species exist in individual things as their constituents, but as such (that is, as forms existing in individual things) they are not universal forms but individuated and individuating forms.

4. Cf.: "In the second place it is clear what those professors mean who say that there are three sorts of universals, namely, before the individual thing, as an idea, in the thing, as a form communicated to many things, and after the thing, as the species or sign of the former".

Whereas, for Aristotle, individual things such as Bucephalus, are paradigmatic substances, Spinoza denies their substantiality.

Ericsson's Joakim Formo looked at the connection between the digital and the physical in a slightly different way, through the lens of the Internet of Things which gives individual things, such as books or toasters, a unique ID and connects them via the internet.

Stephen C. Angle gives an excellent brief definition of li as "the valuable, intelligible way that things fit together" (Angle 2009: 32).[9] There are patterns of coherence in world, and these patterns define individual things, constitute nature as a system, and structure human society.

These poems draw our attention to small things – weeds, flowers, a short sequence devoted to bees and another to snails – and these details are held up to us not as examples of their kind, but as individual things, "each / to its own / line".