Sentence examples for there is something it from inspiring English sources

Franzen points out that privacy loses its value unless there is something it can be defined against.

To paraphrase Nagel, there is something it is like to know something, and that "something" is different from what it is like to feel or desire something.

As the philosopher Thomas Nagel argued in a famous essay, "What is it like to be a bat?" (1979), there is something it is like to be conscious.

There is "something it is like" to see rather than ear, or to smell rather than taste, and there is "something it is like" to see red as opposed to blue, or to taste sweet as opposed to sour, and these "somethings" are the differences between and among qualia.

It is sometimes said that an experience ranks among the contents of consciousness if there is "something it is like" to have it.

If there is something it is like, say, for a bat to have a sonar sense, then that sense is part of bats' consciousness.

"There's something it triggers in your brain," says Hardarson.

Consider, however, the following three purely logical propositions: [There is something, or it is not the case that there is something], [There is something, and it is not the case that there is something], and [There is something].

But now there is something to it.

Doubtless, there is something in it.

There is something in it for everybody, regardless of background.