Sentence examples for particular things which from inspiring English sources

It is a striking observation, however we explain it, that the forms of particular things which coexist in the mind of Origen's God with the genera and species are not attested in any pagan Platonist before Plotinus, his younger contemporary and (as most believe) a fellow-pupil of Ammonius Saccas (cf. Plotinus, Enneads 5.7).

"It has a calming effect on agitated people, or people obsessed with one particular thing, which in this case is committing suicide".

The particular thing which this case concerns in the retailers' efforts to promote the end in view is the attempt in the manner shown, by the circulation of the reports in question, to keep the wholesalers from selling directly to the local trade.

Bradley's psychological account differs from the hedonist's in that whereas hedonism holds that a particular pleasure is willed, Bradley claims that the ideal object willed is a particular thing which has had a pleasant quality transferred to it and thereby attributed to the thing itself.

The nominalist position did not necessarily deny, however, that there must be some similarity between the particular things to which the general word is applied.

But it has extra-mental existence only in the particular things in which it exists, and in them it is always "contracted" by the haecceity.

They have personalities that are sometimes difficult to handle – and Nicole is one of those people who has a particular view of things which she's absolutely entitled to".

"All of us who are environmentalists have to recognise there is a great deal of noise around the edges of people sticking up for particular answers to things, which are nonsense," he said in an interview with the Guardian.

This idea is real in the sense that it is part of the blueprint of the universe, but its reality doesn't depend on whether the particular thing of which it is an idea actually exists in time.

What's interesting to me is to ask which particular things go extinct and which ones don't?

What is of particular interest to him are patterns of extinction selectivity — which particular things go extinct and which don't, and how are those extinctions distributed, not just phylogenetically but ecologically.