These categorial items, conceived of as instances of a certain kind of being, are called by Wyclif 'essences' (essentiae).
For instance, until a year ago, I enjoyed a certain kind of user-generated content very much: I participated in forums in which musicians talked about musical instruments.
For instance, if a group avoids a certain kind of action, the correct explanation, given the identity and the role of pleasure and pain in learning, could be that this kind of act is wrong.
The stockings, for instance, used to be knitted on a certain kind of machine that is not available anymore, he said.
For instance, once a bird has discovered a certain kind of palatable prey, it may form a "search image" for that prey and specialize for a time in eating it.
The discrete little notes each corresponding to a given pitch, for instance: that's a product of a certain kind of musical aesthetic that values well-articulated, distinct pitches.
In fact, real universals are identical with their own individuals when considered as natures of a certain kind (for instance, man is the same thing as Socrates), but different from them when considered qua universals and qua individuals respectively, because of the opposite constitutive principles: generality for universals and thisness for individuals (De universalibus, p. 181).
Yet she also manages to imbue her work with a finely calibrated sense of respect and tenderness, transforming what can seem perilously close to exploitation in some instances into a poignant meditation on a certain kind of loneliness, and the longing that accompanies it.
He is a perfect instance of the Western-rationalist male boogeyman stalked by a certain kind of literary critic.
They stipulate, for instance, that 'killing people' be used to refer only to a certain kind of shí (stuff, event, situation), distinct from that denoted by 'killing robbers'.
