Sentence examples for a minimal kind from inspiring English sources

Tait, in contrast to Parsons, rejects the aspect of representability in intuition as the hallmark of the finitary; instead he takes finitary reasoning to be "a minimal kind of reasoning presupposed by all non-trivial mathematical reasoning about numbers".

Stalnaker's initial response to proponents of finer-grained propositional structure is to insist that possible world semantics provides a minimal kind of content that all theorists should accept (1984, 1999b).

Or, if it's a minimal effort kind of day, going out in your dressing gown, tassel belt and all, is now officially fashionable.

They suggest that organisms as simple as bacteria exhibit this minimal kind of agency.

Views of this general sort are defended by Ayer (1952), Stevenson (1944), Hare (1981), Gibbard (1990; cf. 2003), and Blackburn (1993), although recent versions often allow some minimal kind of moral truth while denying that moral beliefs can be true or false in the same robust way as factual beliefs.

According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, of all the boroughs, Staten Island had the highest percentage at the end of 2007 of subprime mortgages and "Alt-A loans," a kind of loan with minimal documentation requirements typically given to borrowers with tarnished credit histories.

We don't want to commit to any particular account of causation; perhaps 'having a causal power' means just 'making a difference to something else'. 1 Making a difference to something is a minimal necessary condition for being the kind of entity we have any interest in recognising in formulating a biological ontology.

TAG is the only codon that does not accommodate a minimal overlap, whereas TAA can give one kind of stop-start codon overlap (TAATG) and TGA even two kinds (ATGA and TGATG).

Anybody with that kind of series and a minimal sense of imagination would look around him and say, "I could own this place".

He is not the kind willing to make even a minimal Google search ("Sport promenade histoire") before writing.

He means the old-fashioned kind, which advocated free markets and a minimal role for government.