Sentence examples for things to refer from inspiring English sources

The other, prevailing view took "things" to refer to the mind.

Today, we primarily use the term "thing" to refer to objects.

At the height of a financialised age, it was the done thing to refer to these people as "Masters Of The Universe".

It would not, however, necessarily experience itself as being two things at once, at least not if we take the term "thing" to refer to substances.

"I think in all professions, people like shorthand ways of referring to things and using popular culture references to refer to things.

Even in light of this qualified version of the Autonomy Thesis, the most that can be said of, 'I promise to climb the Eiffel Tower,' is that it is designed to be used to make promises, just as common nouns are designed to be used to refer to things and predicates are designed to characterize things referred to.

"The thing is he has to refer everything, so I have to go through my GP.

Since the chief task of singular terms is to refer to things, the semantic values of 'honesty,'hungerer' and the like are presumably the things they refer to.

Language allows us to refer to things that are distant in space, or in time.

"Spirituality I take to refer to things that are not expressible in words.

This seems incompatible with our ordinary practice of using terms to refer to things that only exist contingently.