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1. In the role or manner of the thing mentioned.

   This is a valuable artefact and should be treatedas such.

2. (usually in negative constructions) In a true or literal sense.

   I don't have a libraryas such, but I do have quite a large collection of books.

3. Per se, byitself, in itself,in and of itself.

   Moneyas such is not the root of evil.

   • 2012, Y. Yovel,Nietzsche as Affirmative Thinker,→ISBN:

     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 moralityas such.

   • 2012, K.J. Clark,Our Knowledge of God: Essays on Natural and Philosophical Theology,→ISBN:

     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 somethingas such, then it is a certain nature.

   • 2012 -, J.J. Kockelmans,Phenomenological Psychology: The Dutch School,→ISBN, page13:

     For only in this way is it possible to uncover the psychicalas such in a truly original and concrete manner.

   • 2014, Elmar J. Kremer,Analysis of Existing: Barry Miller's Approach to God,→ISBN, page31:

     Although wisdomas such, courageas such, understandingas such, existenceas 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.

4. Being as previously mentioned or described.

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

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