Sentence examples for multiplicity of objects from inspiring English sources

But the idealists held that to talk about reality as if it were a multiplicity of objects is to falsify it; in the end, only the whole, the absolute, has reality.

This in turn entailed a multiplicity of objects of veneration, ranging from other buddhas, such as Amitabha and Vairocana, to bodhisattvas, such as Avalokiteshvara, and eventually even to symbolic representations, such as scrolls reproducing the title of the Lotus Sutra, an early Mahayana scripture, in the calligraphy of the Japanese monk Nichiren (1222 82).

If consciousness knows a multiplicity of objects, then it must not be singular by definition.

In a variety of ways, proponents of these schools claim that consciousness is truly singular and yet can be a knower of a multiplicity of objects.

Intellect could not suffice as a first principle of all because the complexity of thinking (thinker and object of thought and multiplicity of objects of thought) requires as an explanation something that is absolutely simple.

The impression of reality's consisting of a multiplicity of related objects is a result of the separations imposed by thought; in fact 'the Absolute is not many; there are no independent reals.' (All quotations from here on are from Appearance and Reality, Ch. XIV).

There are a host of problems the enthusiastic library fraternity face in their digital library development endeavours starting from copyright issues, technology complexities, infrastructure threats, diverse publication types, multiplicity of digital object formats and above all the publishers' stringent policies and monopolies.

One reason scientists have had trouble understanding how the multiplicity of newly discovered objects could indeed be true planets has been their inability to conceive of how such large bodies had time to form.

The exercise illustrates how digital sport historians must recognize the digital and its multiplicity of forms as historical objects that are produced, interpreted, and contested.

Suchman (2000), for example, in a thoughtful and detailed analysis in her article 'Embodied practices of engineering work', provided an account of professional engineering practice that 'emphasizes the multiplicity of media and associated objects involved in the work of engineering on the one hand, and their integration in practice into a coherent field of action on the other'.

Space and time are then presented as a priori 'forms of difference,' but a question remains about the content of experience: the supposedly independent world of objects, in all of its variety and multiplicity, still needs to be explained.