Sentence examples for thing is determined from inspiring English sources

On the other hand, each particular thing is determined to act and to be acted upon by other particular things.

Consequently, whether something is a living thing is determined in significant measure by how the mind-independent world is, rather than simply by our conventions and categories for thinking about the world (Wilson, Barker, and Brigandt 2007).

Seen in this light, identity-dependence as defined by (ID) is simply a species of essential dependence, that is, a way in which the essence of a certain thing is determined by a relation in which it stands to another thing.

Rinsing through nearly 40 tracks in 80 minutes at a terrifyingly breakneck speed, it's like being force fed ice cream and cherryade and then being strapped into a waltzer, one where the toothless bloke running the thing is determined to make everyone spin as fast as is legally and literally possible.

As noted by Lustick and Tubin [2], when experts do not agree on what the right thing is, determining that the model is built right cannot be separated from tests of whether the right thing has been built.

The person who truly knows a thing sees the reasons why the thing was determined to be and could not have been otherwise.

Like every fiction of Faber's, The Book of Strange New Things is determined not to be mistaken for any other fiction written by Faber.

I much prefer how Harrison puts it: "Like every fiction of Faber's, The Book of Strange New Things is determined not to be mistaken for any other fiction written by Faber".

Instead, he is best understood as making a bold attempt to show that the structure of all things is determined by number and thus to provide specifics for Philolaus' general thesis that all things are known through number.

Because identity or difference between things is determined to a greater degree by primary rather than by secondary signification, it follows that essence and existence are primarily and absolutely the same (idem) and conditionally or secondarily distinct.

That is to say, Wolff believes that there are times when our "knowledge of the quantity of things" is determined empirically (i.e., by means of the senses), and other times when it is determined by reason (e.g., contained in a thing's Principle of Being).