Sentence examples for qua from high-quality English sources.

• Take the world qua unaccompanied by unicorns.

• But of course there is no such entity as a “human qua animal.”

• The Account of Mathematical Objects with ‘Qua’.

• The mathematician studies things qua countable and measurable.

• To study X qua triangle is to study the properties that accrue to a triangle.

• A study of x qua y, then, is a study of x that concerns itself solely with the y aspect of x.

• We will begin with Γ’s account of the central place of substance in the study of being qua being.

• In Book Ε, Aristotle adds another description to the study of the causes and principles of beings qua beings.

Use qua in a sentence.

• Note that there is no necessity that ‘qua’ operators be of the form ‘qua Y’, where Y is a noun phrase.

• The form of our central causal question, that is, is whether a mental cause qua F causes a behavioral effect qua G.

• A belongs to B universally iff A belongs to all B and A belongs to B per se (in virtue of B) and qua itself (qua B).

• On this interpretation, to survive qua human being is none other than to lead a virtuous life in which one has realized one’s potential.

• Artistic evaluations of theatrical performances qua performances are determinations that achievements of these sorts are made or not made.

• As a failure is never intended qua failure by an agent, but is an unfortunate by-effect of its action, so is evil qua evil never caused by a cause.

• If the term ‘being’ were ambiguous in the way that ‘table’ is, Aristotle’s science of being qua being would be as impossible as a science of tables qua tables.

• If a single property is both mental and physical, Completeness and No Overdetermination force us to say that it’s efficacious only qua physical, not qua mental.

qua sentence examples

• He qualifies as a realist insofar as he distinguishes between universal qua construct and universal qua common phenomena, and accuses the antirealists of nihilism.

• But Aristotle’s description does not involve two things—(1) a study and (2) a subject matter (being qua being)—for he did not think that there is any such subject matter as ‘being qua being’.

• The philosophy of nature lies, therefore, between the sciences and metaphysics; it is to be distinguished from metaphysics, which deals with all being qua being, but also from the (empiriological) sciences, which deal with sensible being qua observable or measurable.

• The separability problem is solved because if we examine X qua Y, we will talk about Y as if it is a separate entity, as a subject, and will pay no attention to the way in which we captured Y through a description ‘X’, in the sense that only the residue of the qua-filter are studied.