Sentence examples for absolute accidents from inspiring English sources

What about absolute accidents?

The accidents are in turn divided into absolute accidents and those with some sort of relation to others.

The question arises only with respect to what he calls "absolute accidents," namely quantity and quality, as opposed to relational accidents the remaining categories of accident.

To explain this intuition, some non-reductivists think it is enough to say that a relation can be acquired (or lost) without its subject undergoing any real change with respect to its absolute accidents.

Thus, the example of Socrates's coming to be shorter than Simmias is sometimes glossed by saying that, with respect to absolute accidents, it is true that Socrates comes to be shorter than Simmias solely in virtue of a real change in Simmias.

Absolute accidents are in turn divided on the basis of matter (which gives rise to quantity) or form (which brings about quality).

It is pure luck, absolute accident.

"It looks like an absolute accident," Mr. Goldman said.

Playing with an abandon absolute, accident and injury beyond our imagining.

The center's biological and chemical defense program has also outfitted about 200 buildings in the United States and overseas with elaborate ventilation and filtering systems to give nearly absolute protection against accidents or attacks.

Returning to the automobile example, assume both restraint use (seat belts) and vehicle improvements (anti-lock brakes) contributed to a reduction in the annual automobile accident absolute death risk over the last 2 decades since the promotion of seat belt use.