Sentence examples for objective properties from inspiring English sources

And just as statements about electrons and planets are made true or false by the objects with which they are concerned and these objects' perfectly objective properties, so are statements about numbers and sets.

Prompted by Lewis in conversation Smart came to realize that this was no objection to colours being objective properties.

Other representationalists accept the existence of qualia but treat them as objective properties that external objects are represented as having, i.e., they treat them as represented properties rather than as properties of representations or mental states (Dretske 1995, Lycan 1996).

Much of the new fashion is more concerned with objective properties, like shape and the potential for color, than the attitudes of a group.

Moreover, according to some interpretations, the new theories demolished the basic metaphysical assumption of earlier science that the entire physical world has a real existence and objective properties independent of human observation.

Pains and visual images, as well as countless other kinds of thought, possess a kind of subjectivity that cannot be captured in a purely scientific account, because scientific descriptions concern only the objective properties of natural phenomena.

The central arguments of this digression, which comes in Herz's exposition of Kant's new theory of space and time as the forms of sensibility, are first, that beauty is an objective property especially connected to the form of an object, and not a mere sensation or sentiment (Empfindung) in the subject, and second, that there are general principles of beautiful form.

For that property is an objective property of actions.

Merit is an objective property of the act itself.

Hegel agrees with Schiller (against Kant) that beauty is an objective property of things.

He argued, however, that beauty is not itself an objective property of things.