Entity

(noun.) that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving).

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• The person or entity that provided you with the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a refund. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• We are only too given to making an entity out of the abstract noun consciousness. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• But to live mechanised and cut off within the motion of the will, to live as an entity absolved from the unknown, that is shameful and ignominious. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• They regarded the individual mind as a separate entity, complete in each person, and isolated from nature and hence from other minds. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• This would be perfectly decisive, were there no medium betwixt the infinite divisibility of matter, and the non-entity of mathematical points. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Two non-entities cannot exclude each other from their places; because they never possess any place, nor can be endowed with any quality. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• These simple and indivisible parts, not being ideas of extension, must be non entities, unless conceived as coloured or solid. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• And as to ideas, entities, abstractions, and transcendentals, I could never drive the least conception into their heads. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.

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