Sentence examples for particular things as from inspiring English sources

"There were particular things, as far as the way he held his body and the way he dealt with people, that gave me a strong idea of what he thought of himself.

Moreover, this human tendency to regard particular things as sacred persisted, albeit often in less obvious ways, in modern, scientific modes of thinking.

If we treat common natures and particular things as the intension and extension of terms, respectively, we come very close to Burley's account, with the possible exception of the ontological status of intensions (if we are 'nominalists'), since Burley regards both common natures and particular things as entities in the world.

Also central to these different facets of his thought was Berlin's individualism or nominalism, his emphasis on the importance, and indeed priority, of particular things as objects of knowledge and of individual people as moral subjects.

It should be noted that people might disagree at different times or places about which set of qualities identifies any given kind; that is to say, the nominal essence, by which we classify particular things as belonging to a natural kind, might vary across times and communities.

We live in a society that only accepts very particular things as normal.

"As long as we can still do it and each of us in our own departments takes care of that particular thing, as long as Mick is out there selling the song in such a good way, that's great".

"I do not know why we tend to think so fuzzily in this area," Gould writes, "but one reason must reside in our social and psychic attraction to creation myths in preference to evolutionary stories -- for creation myths... identify heroes and sacred places, while evolutionary stories provide no palpable, particular thing as a symbol for reverence, worship or patriotism".

What makes it correct to distinguish a particular thing as part of one kind or another?

Scotus's much bolder claim concerns intellectual intuitive cognition, by which the intellect cognizes a particular thing as existing at that very moment.

The second version of the objection, the version which notes the possibility that a particular thing as described in IIIp4 might strive for something other than either self-destruction or perseverance, remains a challenge to sympathetic readers of the Ethics however.