Sentence examples for what a thing is from inspiring English sources

You know what a thing is, right?

To know what a thing is you have to know where it begins and ends, and where its edges are.

Deep learning is essentially a brute-force process for teaching machines how a thing is done or what a thing is.

For it is not possible to be in error regarding the question what a thing is, save in an accidental sense; and the same holds good regarding non-composite substances (for it is not possible to be in error about them).

Readers may like to ponder that question in tandem with another (while bearing in mind that Leo once took a course in philosophy): "If we're not here to know what a thing is, then what is it?" Next, and again for no clear reason, Leo starts taking an obsessive interest in another obsessive cinéaste, another haunter of Quads and Empires (she is pale, gaunt, faceless, and young).

The categories, as the highest genera, determine what a thing is, the transgeneric names signify that it is.

It became a place where you could see that you were not always right about what a thing was.

So we're asking the metaphysical question: What kind of a thing is a person?

"I didn't know what such a thing was," he told Playboy.

What happens when the essence of a thing is not known and the name really matters?

It's always a challenge to tell people what a reinvented thing is.