I think that's part of the reason it's ended up being a singular thing".
Nature is not a singular thing; nor are we and nor are the practices that take us there.
An execution in America is not a singular thing: there have been more than thirty this year, and Davis isn't even the only one scheduled to die today.
Identity – to me – is not a singular thing.
An item, as he defines it, is a singular, non-interchangeable thing: a Casper mattress, a Canada Goose puffer jacket, a classic sneaker by Vans or Adidas.
As Komunyakaa says, Hacker's shifts in tone compound the notion that a name is a singular, even sacred, thing among the mundane: the opening call for reverence is reiterated in the last lines, when a near-total silence is the clear response.
On the one hand, it can be a function symbol: if F is a predicate (resp., a second-level variable), then #F is a singular term denoting the number of things falling under F (resp., in the extension assigned to the second-level variable).[11] On the other hand, the operator #x can be applied to the open sentence Φ x) with x free, thereby binding the variable x.
Cognition, it shows, is always in the first instance about 'that thing,'thatanimalmal,'thatat human being,' and finally about 'Socrates.' Hence, it is always about a singular thing in the first instance.
