How To Use Substantival In A Sentence
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Turning an adjectival similarity relation into a substantival one having the form of an identity statement yields an identity statement in name only.
Relative Identity
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And on the other hand, it is plain that they may be ˜introduced into discussion™ by way of plural substantival expressions, e.g. by the definite description ˜the beavers in Lake Superior™ or even by the demonstrative ˜those beavers™.
Jamestown
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There has been much dispute about whether General Relativity supports relationism or substantivalism about spacetime.
Structural Realism
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Absolute theories are called ‘substantival’ or ‘substantial’ if they require spacetime to be a substance.
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Geach did not use the word ˜sortal™ but most commentators identify his notion of a ˜substantival expression™ with ˜sortal™ in the other writers.
Sortals
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G. G.ach used the expression ˜substantival™ to characterize the kinds of term F and G.are.
Sortals
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a substantival constituent
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Even if it were possible for self-consciousness to be illusory, its mere occurrence is enough to refute those who take the view that the notion of a substantival self is as 'meaningless' as the notion of an unknowable substratum of material things.
Campbell on Self-Consciousness and the Substantival Self
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And this is not the end of the matter, for it does not address the issue of such substantival terms as ˜blood™ and
Jamestown
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It is clear that we must proceed with great care if we are to employ this substantival terminology.
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One strategy, then, for undermining the idea that a category is substantival is to highlight the multiplicity of individuals and categories "in between" the primary category and its implicit opposite.
Feminist Metaphysics
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“Substantivalism, relationism and structural spacetime realism.”
Structural Realism
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Reply: The distinction between identity and similarity statements (or sentences) is usually drawn in terms of the distinction between substantival and adjectival common nouns.
Relative Identity
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Here, however, its position appears to suggest that it is a substantival adjective qualifying ‘inhibition’.
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The qualification ˜substantival predicate-expressions™ above is suggested by an issue noted by Frege, who writes that
Jamestown
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Anything whatever can be introduced into discussion by means of a singular, definitely identifying substantival expression ¦.
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