Meaning of as such | Babel Free

Definitions

1. In the role or manner of the thing mentioned.
2. In a true or literal sense.
   usually
3. Per se, by itself, in itself, in and of itself.
4. Being as previously mentioned or described.

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Examples

“This is a valuable artefact and should be treated as such.”

“I don't have a library as such, but I do have quite a large collection of books.”

“Money as such is not the root of evil.”

“Nietzsche was well aware of this meta-ethical question, which in the above cited aphorism he calls: “The problem of morality itself.” It is implicitly answered in his explicative attitude towards morality as such.”

“The nature of an entity, a medieval would have said, is what-it-is-as-such. An entity does not have a certain nature in the way it has a certain property. It is a certain nature. If an entity is something as such, then it is a certain nature.”

“For only in this way is it possible to uncover the psychical as such in a truly original and concrete manner.”

“Although wisdom as such, courage as such, understanding as such, existence as such, and so on can readily be conceived of (but not imagined), there are no entities corresponding to those conceptions: there are only instances of wisdom, courage, and so on.”

“I'm a mother of four young children; as such, I'm always rushed off my feet.”

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