Sentence examples for singular to the from inspiring English sources

Then again, this compulsion to claim basic human experiences as singular to the South may be a regional tic in and of itself.

At each academy, which the federal government operates, admissions officers cited two main reasons for racial diversity in admissions, one singular to the military and one widely heard in higher education.

Dilthey argues that the study of history can be reliable only if it is possible to raise the understanding of what is singular to the level of universal validity.

The Trinity caused particular problems for logicians because of the unique relation between the three persons and the one divine essence which is, as Ockham put it in his Summa logicae, "one and simple and one in number and singular to the highest degree, and yet is several things".

Thus, even if there were no higher-level plural locutions in natural languages, this would provide little or no evidence for the stronger — and philosophically more interesting — claim that there can be no iteration of the step from the singular to the plural in any language spoken by intelligent agents.

In this way, Burley points towards a double movement in the process of knowing: a first movement, connected with the activity of abstraction or generalization of the intellect (namely, the kind of knowledge he calls 'confused'), which goes from the bottom to the top of the categorial hierarchy, i.e., from what is singular to the highest genus.

As we shall see below (§9), Buridan took the vague singular to be the most proper type of singular term.

Beckmann came to the city too late, and had a style too singular, to turn the heads of up-and-coming painters.

But their music feels too singular to be the starting point of a new movement.

Wilde's argument for socialism prior to his imprisonment is singular, to say the least.

Case endings do not differ from singular to plural; in the singular they are suffixed directly to the word stem, and in the plural they are added to the stem, along with one of the plural markers ar, er, ur.