Sentence examples for amounts to the statement from inspiring English sources

This amounts to the statement that if a proposition is impossible and follows from some other proposition, then this other proposition is impossible, too.

This rejoinder virtually amounts to the statement of a realist conception of truth:  in cases where our initial cognition is overridden, the initial cognition was false all along; all that changes is our awareness thereof.

f "The general principle of natural selection, in fact, merely amounts to the statement that the individuals which leave the most offspring are those which leave the most offspring.

This entry essentially updates the entry in the previous step by reducing the balance sheet liability and transferring the amount to the income statement.

The bite is often meant as a kind of moral satire, but, in the aggregate, it amounts to a depressing statement about the entire gender.

The statement amounted to the transmission of a lethal order.

An employer's refusal to allow birth-control coverage for female employees amounts to "a symbolic statement (promoting) the idea that women should properly be at home with their families, that motherhood is the most important job for women," Luker said.

This accretion, which was given further emphasis by Prichard (Prichard 1950, 86, 88 & 96), amounts to an early statement of the 'knowing that one knows' principle.

In fact, what this claim amounts to is the fair statement that Jews expanded their definition of survivor to mean not just those who were held in camps, but those who fled or hid from the Nazis.

Meanwhile, the show's decentered concept of masculinity amounts to a political statement in itself.

The funds, announced in the chancellor's autumn statement, amount to the single largest addition to UK research spending since the coalition came to power, and underpin the government's conviction that science and technology are key to the nation's economic recovery.