Sentence examples for signifies the same thing from inspiring English sources

While manufacturers are required by the new law to drop words like "light," low" and "mild" from their labels by this summer, the companies may still be able to use pale blue, green or silver packaging, which critics say signifies the same thing to consumers.

Joan Smith's new book, The Public Woman, makes this point when she says that the burqa and the bikini are not at poles, but essentially signify the same thing – too-close attention to the female body.

Esse and essence thus signify the same thing principally, but differ in terms of what they signify secondarily.

Abelard criticizes William for "doing such abuse to language" that he allowed 'rational' and 'rational animal' to signify the same thing (Abelard D 541.24).

Again, another anonymous source confirms that William thought that a definition and the term defined, that is 'rational mortal animal' and 'man', signify the same thing (Green-Pedersen 1974, frag. 6).

He reports "ancient nominalists" as dealing with (1)–(4) by denying (3) — they claimed that what God knows is simply an event, the nativity of Christ, and so the sentences "Christ was born" and "Christ will be born" signify the same thing, since they signify the same event (ST Ia 14, 15 ad 3), and therefore the objects of divine knowledge these sentences express do not differ.

Both things mean the same thing.

It follows therefore that an absolute term can have several distinct real definitions that don't always signify exactly the same things.

For example, "Socrates is sitting" and "Socrates is not sitting" signify for Chatton the same thing, not Socrates, not sitting, and not the propositions, but somehow the whole Socrates's-being-seated.

The metaphysical debate over the real distinction of essence and existence from this point of view is nothing but the issue whether the individualized common nature signified by the definition of a thing is the same as the act of being signified by the verb 'is' in the same thing.

So although William holds that the same thing is signified, the mode of signification would preclude substitution of positive and infinite terms.