Sentence examples for under a certain description from inspiring English sources

Desire and its varieties are striving itself, under a certain description.

Thus, if an act of reference-fixing is to be successful, the reference-fixer must think of the referent-to-be under a certain description — one that that object or individual actually satisfies.

Similarly, "I am breaking a egg because I'm trying to make an omelet," the explanans (the trying) is itself an action, under a certain description, that incorporates the breaking of the egg.

In the relevant sense, consent transactions have a distinct structure: agent A consents to B's φ­-ing on A, under a certain description of φ­-ing, whether or not the offer was initiated by B. For example, a man may consent to a physician's touching the man's testicles as part of a testicular cancer exam (compare Kleinig 2010, 6 7).

(Wilkes, 1988, p. 29) This implies, for example, that "a full psychophysiological account of the processes of human perception must at some stage link up with part at least of linguistic ability; for we typically see things under a certain description, and that description may be a very sophisticated one".

If there were a certain description of a cause of death, the hospital would have been culpable.

But suppose that the child is predicting not strings of words, simpliciter, but rather strings of words under a certain syntactic description (or, perhaps more plausibly, quasi-syntactic description — the categories employed need not be the same as those employed in adult grammars).[14] This would enable her to make much better use of non-occurrence as negative evidence.

It follows that the same pair of events may be related causally, and yet, under certain descriptions (though not under all), there be no strict law under which those events fall.

Dynamics of metabolite concentrations under a certain condition can therefore give a description of the cellular state with a high degree of functional information.

The dynamic changes in metabolite concentrations under a certain perturbation can therefore provide a description of the phenotype and the cellular state with a higher degree of functional information than a snap-shot of either the transcriptome or the proteome.

Four different order model structures are derived from a certain physical description.