Sentence examples for universal term for the from inspiring English sources

(Indeed, the trial was largely responsible for making "Holocaust" the universal term for the genocide).

Phenomenologists of religion who use the concept "sacred" as a universal term for the basis of religion differ in their estimation of the nature of the sacred manifestation.

"Negro is a universal term, for me," he said.

The most effective of these was the German 88-millimetre Fliegerabwehrkanone; its abbreviated name, flak, became a universal term for antiaircraft fire.

"Marijuana has become the universal term in the United States for the plant known as Cannabis sativa," he wrote.

The class of beings signified by a universal term of this sort is indeed prior to the universal term, e.g., the class of pale things to the universal term 'pale'pale

Thus, Peter of Spain: "Simple supposition is the taking [acceptio] of a common term for the universal thing signified by it" (Peter of Spain: Tractatus (called afterwards 'Summulae logicales'), ed.

Suppositio simplex is the acceptance of a term for the universal 'thing' it signifies, as in homo est species ('Man is a species', animal est genus ('Animal is a genus'), in which the substantive terms homo and animal stand for the universal man and animal, and not any one of their particulars.

Universal Time (UT) is the modern term for the international telescope-based system, adopted to replace "Greenwich Mean Time" in 1928 by the International Astronomical Union.

One theme is that contraposition is invalid when applied to universal or empty terms, for the sorts of reasons given by Buridan.

Linguistic groups of Arctic people have no universal replacement term for Eskimo, inclusive of all Inuit and Yupik people across the geographical area inhabited by the Inuit and Yupik peoples.