Sentence examples for sort of entity from inspiring English sources

If Yahoo were to sell off its stake in Alibaba, it would become an entirely different sort of entity.

Apparently referring to a Palestinian state, he said only that at some point "there will be some sort of entity that will be established".

When al-Qaida burst into the foreground of western consciousness in September 2001, there was a scramble to understand what sort of entity we were dealing with.

In other words, in sentences of the form "A knows that p"—where "A" is the name of some person and "p" is a sentential clause, such as "snow is white"—what sort of entity does "p" refer to?

Not being any sort of entity himself, however, he is not to be reckoned up alongside these things, any more than my envy and my left foot constitute a pair of objects".

What sort of entity is pleasure or pain?

This crude description of the fictionalist position immediately opens up the question what sort of entities fictional entities are.

Theories that postulate or prove them need to be supplemented with specific further ontologically committal postulates before incurring commitment to the sort of entities whose broad logical behavior is captured by a single-abstraction identity principle.

It is often controversial what sort of entities these are - material objects, abstract types, processes, sets? - and so it is also controversial how far the arguments discussed above, which focus on material objects, are relevant to these special cases.

Logical constants play a central role in reasoning and inference, but are definitely not the exclusive, and perhaps not even the most typical sort of entities that can be defined inferentially.

Among those who do not doubt the coherence of the concept of intrinsic value there is considerable difference of opinion about what sort or sorts of entity can have such value.