The controversy between nominalists and realists arose from a passage in Boethius' translation of Porphyry's Introduction to the Categories of Aristotle, which propounded the problem of genera and species, (1) as to whether they subsist in themselves or only in the mind; (2) whether, if subsistent, they are corporeal or incorporeal; and (3) whether separated from sensible things or placed in them. [Please select]
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It is a unity self-subsistent, self-sufficient, and not to be enlarged by any additions from without. [Please select]
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But this proposition does not signify that I, as an object, am, for myself, a self-subsistent being or substance. [Please select]
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How is a real, a self-subsistent world to be composed of such. [Please select]
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If knowledge be the activity of a self-subsistent thinking spirit, how can it reveal the nature of an external world. [Please select]
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But that a maximum of goodness, with all of the accessories which it might involve, should be thus self-subsistent, is quite conceivable. [Please select]
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One might illustrate by a very simple example: if I say "so-and-so is a married man," that is not a self-subsistent proposition. [Please select]
Do you have a better example in your mind? Please submit your sentence!