Example sentences of "something [be] look [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I prefer the formulation : are there logical conditions of something 's looking blue to someone ?
2 This being so , I can not accept what would be Mill 's reason for giving an affirmative answer to the question , ‘ Are there logical conditions of something 's looking blue to someone ? ’
3 In spite of not being able to find support for an affirmative answer to the question , ‘ Are there logical conditions of something 's looking blue to someone ? ’ in what Wittgenstein says , and not accepting what would be Mill 's reason for an affirmative answer , I think an affirmative answer is the right answer .
4 The first step is to distinguish between two senses of ‘ something 's looking blue ’ .
5 He may falsely believe that the difference between something 's looking blue and its looking grey can not be merely a perceived-as appearance difference , but that there must be a difference in the presentation appearance .
6 The second step in my attempt to show that an affirmative answer to the question , ‘ Are there logical conditions of something 's looking blue to someone ? ’ is warranted , is to identify perceived-as appearances with would-be beliefs .
7 If these modifications are called ‘ sensations ’ , and if it is allowed that different substances can be related causally , then on this view something 's looking white to someone is his having certain sensations which are excited in him by what we would ordinarily say was the object he saw to be white .
8 On a representative theory of perception , something 's looking white to us consists in our having sensations of white which are excited in us by the object .
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