Sentences with phrase «certain kinds of entity»

Not exact matches

As a number of observers have pointed out (including Fortune), the question isn't so much whether Facebook filters out certain kinds of news — something that newspapers and other media entities do every day without much scrutiny.

Yet the central - state materialist replies that images are not really spatial entities of any kind at all except perhaps in appearance — they are the way in which certain brain processes appear to the material system which we call a person and whose brain it is.

The «ontological principle» is not only that each of these kinds «is» in a distinctively different sense, but that there is a certain primacy in the sense in which ousia «is» or an actual entity «is.»

My case was one in which the author, editor and reader are all known entities (in fact, they all know each other personally); the reading takes place in the exact same cultural and social context as the writing and editing; and the reader is himself a really smart guy, Ivy - league Ph.D. and all, who had spent a decade training the editor to be a certain kind of editor, with specific tools unique to the specific publication's aims.

The idea that the whole is a new entity distinct from the parts arises from a tendency to ignore a certain kind of part that enters into the essential composition of any natural entity — its form or structure.

Generally, to be an accredited investor you must be a certain kind of business entity (e.g. a bank), or a member of a certain set of professions (e.g. lawyers and brokers), or have a certain net worth and / or income.