Sentence examples for singular concepts from inspiring English sources

It is from these we arrive at determinate singular concepts by adding content and at universal concepts by abstracting away from singularizing circumstances.

The first singular concepts acquired are so-called vague singular concepts.

Because the use of singular terms was tied to singular concepts, they were also discussed in commentaries on Aristotle's Physics, De anima, and Metaphysics.

Buridan remarked that one might acquire fictitious singular concepts in dreams, but he did not speak of naming their non-existent objects.

He overlooked the distinction made by his contemporary, John Dorp, between a common reason for giving the same name to two children, and the different singular concepts which that name signified.

While it is true that the phrase 'this man' can lack reference through improper use, if it is used properly it must point to one united existent present object, the very situation in which we form genuinely singular concepts.

Domingo de Soto remarked that in the case where there are several people called Peter in the room, and we want to distinguish this Peter from that Peter we may speak of this or that Peter, but in the mind, where there are no equivocal concepts, the singular concept corresponding to a proper name cannot properly be further singularized, any more than it can be universalized.

To them, "the German language was unique and carried with it a singular concept of the world and life, revealing the essence of the German people," he said.

It is always going to be difficult to shift people's behaviours towards using another type of money because people think of money as a singular concept – it is just money, it is not 'local money'digitaltal money'," says Tom Shakhli, manager of the scheme.

A singular concept is enough.

But on Buridan's account, a singular concept is singular because of its complexity.