Sentence examples for its totality state from inspiring English sources

By AW3R, [Water,s] (together with its totality state of affairs) itself constitutes a (very sparse) possible world w.

In a statement, the FBI said the database "is not shared in its totality with state or local police departments or the private sector". Only the smaller "known or suspected terrorist" list is available to them, the FBI said, and they can't scroll through the data but must search for a particular name.

But if negation has indeed been smuggled into the description of the role that T performs in comprising a totality state then it is difficult to avoid the suspicion that Armstrong has simply exchanged many negative facts for one big one.

Take the totality state of affairs that comprises all the (1st order) state of affairs.

So there must be a further totality state that comprised the aggregate of all of them.

So the 3rd totality fact or any other state higher-order than it is entailed by the existence of the 2nd order totality state.

Consequently this totality state comprises a vast swathe of what exists whether particulars, universals or states of affairs that consist in particulars having universals.

Keller (2007; 2009, 125 126) argues, more ominously, that the idea of a totality state of affairs is paradoxical and, hence, that such states of affairs simply cannot exist.

In a similar way Armstrong endeavours to sweep away the need for negative facts by affirming "the biggest totality state of all, the one embracing all lower-order states of affairs", i.e., the existence of a totality state that consists in an aggregate of all the (1st order) states of affairs there are related by T to the property of being a (1st order) states of affairs (2004: 75).

A bit more specifically, Armstrong (2004, 74) takes a totality state of affairs to be a higher-order atomic state of affairs of the form [Tot,T,being a state of affairs], where T is a sum of states of affairs — intuitively, the state of affairs that the sum in question is a totality with regard to the property in question.

It may distribute them as it sees fit, if the result, taken in its totality, is within the state's constitutional power.' Gregg Dyeing Co. v. Query, 286 U.S. 472, 480, 52 S.Ct.