Sentences with phrase «entities than descriptions»

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The vocabulary included a predicate «Cncv» for expressing that a person conceives such - and - such under a suitable linguistic description, a predicate «Able» enabling us to express that a person has the ability to do so - and - so under a given description, and a predicate «Gr» enabling us to express that one entity is greater than another in what is presumed to be Anselm's sense.

The view of actual entities as real existents (whether microscopic, macroscopic, or «hypothetical»), rather than as descriptions of the real, has vitiated the understanding of Whitehead from the outset.

With a job description that entails commenting on news items day in and day out, it's waaaay easier to isolate certain groups and refer to them in perpetuity as «bad guys» than to deploy sincere empathy on a daily basis: 50 % of my blogging oeuvre bemoans entities like Big Oil, the 2010 congressional GOP, climate change deniers, or the coal lobby.