Sentence examples for some kind of entity from inspiring English sources
(Ten years ago, Henry Morgan said of Carson, "He believes that justice is some kind of entity that is palpable. He talks about it as if he were talking about a chair").
The pair even proposes that this group agree to create some kind of entity -- "governmental, quasi-governmental, a private corporation with a set of rules" -- that would own or manage this network, or both.
But more often we speak of ontological commitment to some entities in the plural, or to some kind of entity.
And later Scotus notes that it "does not seem probable" that the common nature has some kind of entity and yet that the individuating feature does not.
But ontological commitment to some entities plurally, or some kind of entity, is clearly not the same as ontological commitment to each of the entities singly.
A criterion fails to be sufficient for ontological commitment if it overgenerates, if it sometimes holds that a theory is committed to some kind of entity that the theory should not be committed to.
You can also see the first millennium as the time when Europe as some kind of unitary entity comes into being.
Throughout, there is an assumption that social media are some kind of homogeneous entity, with news stories presenting tweets as though they are part of a cohesive, linear narrative rather than the tangled wordcloud that they actually signify.
But I wonder whether the Sun realises that its message is similar: the effect of treating Muslims, all Muslims, as some kind of homogenous entity (and as a thing apart) is more likely to foment divisions with non-Muslims and alienate Muslims still further.
The most natural, although not the only, way to deny propositionalism is to embrace some form of sententialism, according to which belief attributions relate a person to some kind of linguistic entity.
Think of The Stand, with its killer plague creating a post-apocalyptic wasteland where some kind of demonic entity can only be stopped by a literal glowing Hand of God.
