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Example sentences for "something external"

  • At the same time it in no way renounces the surrounding world; but through the activity of thought it reconstructs that world, and in this conceptualises and idealises all its magnitudes.

  • Natural self-preservation cannot possibly satisfy the striving of the subject.

  • However much Naturalism may boast that it is possible for even the highest to be drawn into the service of the merely human, with all its boasting it has not explained the origin of the highest: can a thing proceed from its own shadow?

  • The Modern Age, too, which has conceded so much to utilitarian striving, is in the innermost essence of its effort far removed from the spirit of mere utility.

  • And so life everywhere becomes more active and more powerful: it finds its aim within itself, in its own elevation, and has therefore no need to seek it in something external; the whole existence of man becomes more his own work.

  • These emotions also arise from pleasure or pain accompanied by the idea of something external, as cause either in itself or accidentally.

  • On the other hand, that thing is necessary, or rather constrained, which is determined by something external to itself to a fixed and definite method of existence or action.

  • Therefore, as we can prove that authoritativeness is both produced and recognised by means of something external, the Mimamsa tenet that 'authoritativeness is self-proved' is like a gourd overripe and rotten.

  • It cannot be the former alternative; because the followers of the Nyaya who hold that authoritativeness is proved by something external [as inference, &c.

  • Nor can Udayana's[295] argument be brought forward as establishing the dependence of authoritativeness on something external, for it is swallowed up by the dragon of the equally potent contradictory argument.

  • For if I am dependent, my being is referred to something else which I am not; I cannot exist independently of something external.

  • The first idea that presents itself in speaking of means is that of something external to the object, yet having no share in the object itself.

  • But, with the exception of space, there is no representation, subjective and referring to something external to us, which could be called objective a priori.

  • The individual man or ox is not defined with reference to something external.

  • Again, whether we define them as quantitative or not, they have no contraries: for how can there be a contrary of an attribute which is not to be apprehended in or by itself, but only by reference to something external?

  • His great territory was held only in small part of the king of France.

  • The quality, state, or capability, of being affected by something external; sensation; sensibility.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    ancient writers; continued till; each three; fiscal agent; grand thing; master says; more pleasing; musical composition; organized labor; particular account; something about; something analogous; something better; something between; something beyond; something done; something else; something for; something foreign; something more; something real; something seemed; something that; something which; this camp; who shall