Sentence examples for Absolutely speaking from inspiring English sources

James' position, in fact, is that relations are not things "properly and absolutely speaking," but only "in a certain way according to a less proper way of speaking".

On one reading of this remark, Descartes is explicitly embracing the consequence of having defined knowledge wholly in terms of unshakable conviction: he's conceding that achieving the brand of knowledge he seeks is compatible with being — "absolutely speaking" — in error.

This is not the best of all possible worlds that God could create, absolutely speaking, but it is the best relative to the simplicity of his ways (Jolley 2004).

Cf. "Nothing is really solid or fluid, absolutely speaking, and everything has a certain degree of solidity or fluidity; which term we apply to a thing derives from the predominant appearance it presents to our senses" (SD 51/AG 1351/AG

On this view, S is not true or false absolutely speaking, but it may be true-relative-to-X and false-relative-to-Y (where X and Y refer to the moral codes of different societies).

Likewise, although it appears inconceivable that something material could generate something endowed with per se existence, it is not impossible absolutely speaking: if God can confer separate existence upon an accident despite the fact that accidents naturally inhere in their substrates then, in like manner, he can confer separate existence upon a soul, although it has a seminal reason in matter.

In moments when you feel like you are able to, absolutely speak up.

I'm absolutely not speaking after David Attenborough.

This, absolutely strictly speaking, is not my own hangover cure.

Cautioning that it was too early to say with certainty what happened, Cox added: "I'm absolutely not speaking about the managers of this ride, but one of the generic problems that can happen is you end up trying to solve the problem and the problem may well be that one of these interlocks is being triggered prematurely and you try and solve it.

As medical procedures go, this one's not particularly challenging, except perhaps for the follow up, which requires three weeks of absolutely no speaking.