as such
prep_phrase1
In the role or manner of the thing mentioned.
- This is a valuable artefact and should be treated as such.
2
Usually, In negative constructions In a true or literal sense.
- I don't have a library as such, but I do have quite a large collection of books.
3
Per se, by itself, in itself, in and of itself.
- 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.2012, Y. Yovel, Nietzsche as Affirmative Thinker, →ISBN:
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- 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.2012, K.J. Clark, Our Knowledge of God: Essays on Natural and Philosophical Theology, →ISBN:
- For only in this way is it possible to uncover the psychical as such in a truly original and concrete manner.2012 -, J.J. Kockelmans, Phenomenological Psychology: The Dutch School, →ISBN, page 13:
- 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.2014, Elmar J. Kremer, Analysis of Existing: Barry Miller's Approach to God, →ISBN, page 31:
- We were encouraged to continue this work when, in a comparison among the strategies studied within the framework of MIME as regards costs, user independence, linguistic accuracy, and inclusion, we found that some of the labels seemed to fit for English as a lingua franca, but not for Esperanto and could therefore not be verified as characteristics of a lingua franca as such.2022, Sabine Fiedler, Cyril Robert Brosch, “A note to the reader”, in Esperanto – Lingua Franca and Language Community, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →DOI, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, page xix:
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Being as previously mentioned or described.
- I'm a mother of four young children; as such, I'm always rushed off my feet.