Sentence examples for objects of kind from inspiring English sources

A purely extensional version of the criterion is plainly inadequate: $T$ is ontologically committed to objects of kind $K$ if, and only if, $T$ is true only if the variables range over objects of kind $K$.

This is then alleged to be evidence that quotations can be used to refer to objects of kind O.

If there is someone who believes that some objects of kind x exist substantially the Madhyamaka will produce an argument to show that these objects really lack svabhāva.

Quine's advice comes accompanied with a criterion of ontological commitment whereby an appropriately regimented body of doctrine is ontologically committed to objects of kind $K$ just in case objects of kind $K$ must lie in the range of our bound variables for the sentences of our theory to be true.

For example, we are committed to the existence of objects of kind $K$ if a proper regimentation of our best global theory includes or entails a sentence of the form $\exists x \ Fx$, where $F$ is a predicate under which only objects of kind $K$ fall.

Under Quine's approach to ontology, an argument for the existence of objects of kind $K$—whether mereologically complex objects, or concrete possible worlds, or mathematical objects takes the form of an argument for the thesis that quantification over such objects is indispensable to our best global theory of the world.

In some cases the satisfaction of the Acceptance Condition is sufficient for the satisfaction of the Success Condition in the sense that if an author has produced an object with an intention to make an object of kind K and has accepted it as a K-object, it cannot fail to be a K-object.

Schopenhauer follows Wolff in distinguishing among four kinds of reasons, corresponding to four kinds of objects, and charges that much philosophical confusion arises from attempts to explain objects of one kind by reasoning that belongs to the other kind.

If propositions are another kind of complex entity, then the nominalist about propositions must make sure that objects of that kind are concrete.

Reliquaries designed to hold the fragments likewise multiplied, and some precious objects of this kind survive.

Cosmic objects of this kind emit X-rays by compression of material from companion stars accreted onto their surfaces.