Sentence examples for is the same as something from inspiring English sources

His theory of relative identity, elaborated in Logic Matters (1972), argued that it makes no sense to say that one thing is the same as something else unless you say what sort of category the two things which are putatively one thing belong to.

It is, however, not always true, e.g. suppose that and B are the same as C per accidens; for both 'snow' and the 'swan' are the same as something white'.

b (1): to recognize as "being the same" as something previously known; No! you are "a new creature" in Christ Jesus!

Which leads to the second, and more dangerous, attitude those same fanatics share: a confusion between Means and End; the idea that saying something is the same as doing something.

"A sharp intake of breath is the same as saying something!" I snap 10 seconds later.

The main legal issue: Whether zoning is regulation -- that is, whether regulating how something is done is the same as regulating where something is done.

My worry is that we're lost in some Reality TV Universe where we think that "liking" and sharing is the same as actually doing something important like voting.

If we import Groenendijk and Stokhof's analysis into a situation semantics, the extension of Josephine's question in (54) is the proposition in (55): (55) describes possible situations in which the set of those who caught something is the same as the set of those who caught something in the actual world.

Moreover, because passions are "willings" according to Descartes, to want something is the same as to will it.

Try thinking of multiplying as adding the same number together over and over again. 2 times something is the same as adding 2 things together.

This interpretation associates beliefs directly with their behavioral consequences: believing something is the same as having the willingness to engage in a particular activity, e.g., in a bet.