continuants

Unfortunately, we simply do not have the capacity to be able to personally call continuants and remind them of the status of their Cobra benefits.

ABC News: Top Stories 2011

We were even then what Richard John Neuhaus, in a brilliant article that appears, slightly revised, as a chapter in his new book Catholic Matters, calls "continuants" as opposed to the "discontinuants" of Right and Left.

The Fall and Rise of the Neocaths Mike L 2006

We were even then what Richard John Neuhaus, in a brilliant article that appears, slightly revised, as a chapter in his new book Catholic Matters, calls "continuants" as opposed to the "discontinuants" of Right and Left.

Archive 2006-07-01 Mike L 2006

Again, this seems reasonable and not unduly ad hoc, inasmuch as it incorporates the strong pre-theoretical intuition that substances are continuants rather than events.

Ontological Dependence Lowe, E. Jonathan 2009

The point is that an attractive strategy is to define the category of continuants as embracing substances and collections of substances (the latter being things like armies and piles of stones) and then to define events and processes as changes or sequences of changes in the properties and relations of continuants: but this patently requires us not to define

Ontological Dependence Lowe, E. Jonathan 2009

Simple voicing can account for the vowels, but for the sibilants, the rule would seem to be, in phonological terms, dissimilation of obstruency in continuants.

The loss of mediofinal 'h' in Pre-Proto-Etruscan 2008

Attempts to ground special obligations have appealed to diverse states of affairs, including the intrinsic nature of the special relationship, the nature of the party to whom the obligations are owed, the expectations of the party to whom the obligations are owed, and the nature of persons as psychological continuants bound by relations between mental states.

Special Obligations Jeske, Diane 2008

Where scientists think about viruses, electrons or stars, philosophers think about spatiotemporal continuants, universals and identity.

Naturalism Papineau, David 2007

In the "Center" are the continuants, called "neocons" by progs and trads.

How much can the smoke of Satan be dispelled? Mike L 2006

In the "Center" are the continuants, called "neocons" by progs and trads.

Archive 2006-04-01 Mike L 2006