Sentence examples for pre-existing entities from inspiring English sources

Plato held a view about moral thinking that depended on seeing the objects of moral thought as abstract, pre-existing entities.

Other processes, often involving causal interactions between entities from distinct levels of biological organisation, or operating at different time scales, are responsible not only for the destabilisation of pre-existing entities, but also for the emergence and stabilisation of novel entities in the microbial world.

We may suppose that, in ascribing rights to a group, we merely acknowledge the entitlements of a pre-existing entity, but, in reality, it may be the ascription of rights itself that identifies, creates and fixes a segment of humanity as a "group".

The position of lexis in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) is, theoretically, fully integrated into the grammar if we accept the theory's assumption that "there is no need to postulate a separate 'lexicon' as a pre-existing entity on which the grammar is made to operate" (Halliday and Matthiessen, 1999: 199).

Don't name your project after a pre-existing entity.

Since they address the problem of making the reuse of software entities more agile and easy to model, they focus especially on the adaptation of pre-existing software entities that are used during the developing of service-based applications.

The physical precedent of these existing infrastructures will help to focus spatially and materially the questions of our research: the final proposals will have to be necessarily mediated through these pre-existing physical entities.

In some tumour entities, pre-existing resistant subclones could be detected.

While it is possible to use pre-existing sets of labels for entities and their relations in interactive learning, this incremental methodology (5) also allows to define and extend these label sets at any point in time during the annotation.

The framework offered by our network model makes possible the observation of patterns of connections orthogonal to the expected ones for entities of a particular pre-existing class.

It should then become possible to determine when changes in the external or internal relationships of an entity, visualized as features in the multidimensional topology of some part of the causal network, may justify distinguishing new entities perhaps not recognised in pre-existing ontological classes.