Sentence examples for a substantive claim from inspiring English sources

This substitution, unfortunately, led to countless (and continuing) debates about whether the thesis of natural selection is a substantive claim about the real world or simply a tautology (a statement, such as "All bachelors are unmarried," that is true by virtue of its form or the meaning of its terms).

Rather, this is a substantive claim that needs both refinement and defense.

That is a substantive claim, but there is no reason to think that position is correct.

(2) is intended to be a substantive claim about how Stalin actually was, not a claim about how he might have been.

Martin and Williamson regard it as a substantive claim that experiences said to be 'phenomenally the same' have anything more than an epistemic property of indistinguishability in common.

Notable in the last respect is Reichenbach's view that general covariance is a substantive claim of general relativity: the laws of physics have the same "form" in every coordinate system and frame of reference.

Ideally, any substantive claim for a common neural mechanism requires evidence of substantial overlap and no reliable spatial separation between the regions activated by the two tasks, in individual subjects' brains.

A more substantive claim against them may be that they approved Fastow's partnership deals so that they could deceive investors and cover up Enron's disastrous course.

Attribution of propositional attitudes is no philosophically agreed-upon and clear-cut affair and at least sometimes may be only a pragmatic way of speaking innocent of any substantive claims for an ontology of facts or propositions or any attribution of combinatorial representational powers of mind.

These truisms should not be confused with this last claim, which is a substantive metaphysical claim.

(If his work didn't already lay a substantive enough claim to the gothic, the discord between his name and the name of his home town seals the deal).