Sentence examples for relation to things from inspiring English sources

Femininity is the part of our psyche that seeks to understand and relate, and see ourselves in relation to things.

"I found another way to express my relation to things, other than the word".

This fixed the dollar in relation to metal but not in relation to things, like shoes or yarn, that dollars could buy.

It made all those touched by it aware that "the world of ordinary life is suddenly arrested – laid asleep – tranced – racked into a dead armistice: time must be annihilated; relation to things abolished".

To get the most from next-generation technology, it should accommodate our different likes and preferences in relation to things, people, place, and time, tailoring its functionality to those preferences.

"She heard, as if from a great distance, people using the word 'beautiful' in relation to things like trees or sunsets, but her faculty for understanding things like this had been so crippled that the attempt to comprehend what people were saying when they spoke like this filled her with a kind of panic".

It is fairly clear, however, that the Sophists did concentrate very largely upon human beings and human society, upon questions of words in their relations to things, upon issues in the theory of knowledge, and upon the importance of the observer and the subjective element in reality and in the correct understanding of reality.

If experience-content externalism is true, then what makes it the case that an experience has the content it does depends on external relations to things outside the subject's skin, such as social relations between the subject and others, or causal relations to things in the environment.

According to the internalist, expressions as such don't bear any semantically interesting relations to things in the world; names don't, for example, refer to the objects with which one might take them to be associated.

With entry into the reign of law and language, subjects are cut off from the immediacy of bodily experience; relations to things, and to oneself and others, are now mediated by words and representations.

Earlier we glossed 'x is exactly located at y' as 'x has (or has-at-y) the same size and shape as y, and stands (or stands-at-y) in all the same spatiotemporal relations to things as does y'.