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trinity of ideas
Definition
three people or things considered as a unit
- Although there's no logical objection to a metaphysical trinity, a three-headed reality, such trinities are not common or popular.Part 3 (37% in)
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- He was no longer talking about a metaphysical trinity but an absolute monism.Part 3 (46% in)
- He was heard along the corridors and up and down the stairs of Montana Hall singing softly to himself, almost under his breath, "Holy, holy, holy —blessed Trinity."Part 3 (37% in)
- He knew the metaphysical trinity of subject, object and Quality would sooner or later have to be interrelated but he was in no hurry about it.Part 3 (37% in)
- Although there's no logical objection to a metaphysical trinity, a three-headed reality, such trinities are not common or popular.Part 3 (37% in)
- Believe me, when the world is seen not as a duality of mind and matter but as a trinity of quality, mind, and matter, then the art of motorcycle maintenance and other arts take on a dimension of meaning they never had.Part 3 (42% in)
- Now, armed with his new time-interrelated metaphysical trinity, he had that romantic-classic Quality split, the one which had threatened to ruin him, completely stopped.Part 3 (43% in)
- He then proceeded in terms of the trinity to answer the question, Why does everybody see Quality differently?Part 3 (44% in)
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