Sentence examples for means for something from inspiring English sources

To insist on this distinction is to recognize what it means for something to be a metaphysical, not a physical, claim.

"Faced with a new technical development in art, it's easier for us to quietly move the goalposts after a suitable period of outrage," Arcas argued, "re-inscribing what it means for something to be called fine art, what counts as skill or creativity, what is natural and what is artifice, and what it means for us to be privileged as uniquely human".

Bakewell's claim is especially surprising given her invocation of Martin Heidegger, who thought the whole history of Western philosophy was one long detour from the true philosophical question raised by the Greeks: "What is Being?" The capital B means they were interested in more than just "what the world was made of"; they were interested in what it means for something to be rather than not be.

What complicates the picture is the question of what it really means for something to be based on something else.

In other words, the completeness question holds fixed the issue of what it means for something to satisfy the condition of being physical, and asks instead what it means for everything to satisfy that condition.

All such positions are non-voluntarist in so far as they do not claim that what it means for something to be good is that God wills it to be so.

Each one is meant for something".

But you felt like you were meant for something better.

What does it mean for something to be 'modern'?

"Perhaps I was meant for something much more romantic".

The result is a big box of bedrooms on a property meant for something less monolithic.