Sentence examples for abstract speculation from inspiring English sources

This isn't an abstract speculation.

It sets this reality against abstract speculation and ideal schemes.

He engaged in little abstract speculation, concentrating instead on a concrete, unsentimental depiction.

They share a metabolic intolerance for the great French indoor sport of abstract speculation.

Such abstract speculation gave rise to drawings and models for buildings and furnishings.

After World War II, however, French writers appeared to take on a zest for abstract speculation, for turgid prose, and for the coining of abstruse terms.

Consciousness has long been the province of philosophers, and most doctors steer clear of their abstract speculations.

The simple, naturalistic religion of the corn-growing peasants, however, subsisted apart from the priesthood's abstract speculations and has partly survived to this day among the Christianized Maya Indians or the unevangelized Lacandón.

Instead of dwelling on abstract speculations such as humanity's condition in the state of nature, Confucius sought to understand the actual situation of a given time and to use that as his point of departure.

If you want great examples, read Mr. Leslie Stephen's History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century, and see how a hundred years after his death the abstract speculations of Descartes had become a practical force controlling the conduct of men.

This advance was fired by some mixed-up combination of abstract mathematical speculation, capitalist greed, global geopolitical power struggle, and sheer mysticism.