Sentence examples for physical kinds from inspiring English sources

Rather, the point is to distinguish social kinds from physical kinds.

The second undercuts the principal reason for grouping genuinely different physical kinds under a single functional kind.

Although there are differences between instances of any two individuals (in accord with Leibniz's Law), these are differences that do not matter for physical kinds.

Is all talk of physical kinds of stuff only about concrete portions of matter, or is it also (or instead) about universals?

In the philosophy of mind, the multiple realizability thesis contends that a single mental kind (property, state, event) can be realized by many distinct physical kinds.

But whatever the correct account turns out to be, the multiple realizability thesis about the mental is that a given psychological kind (like pain) can stand in that relationship to many distinct physical kinds.

The comedy, he says, is of a particularly physical kind.

Part of Mr. Jacobs's regimen involves stretching, and not the physical kind.

"One falls, one rises — it's pretty clear the digital kind is a substitute to the physical kind," he said.

It seems that having a phone set to vibrate can cause a particularly physical kind of false alarm.

He apparently had a confrontation of the physical kind with Frank Middleton of Tampa Bay after both teams had dressed.