Sentence examples for any plurality from inspiring English sources

Universalism also known as conjunctivism or unrestricted mereological composition (or UMC is the thesis that, for any plurality of non-overlapping objects, those objects compose something.

This view is not committed to any "plurality" of substantial forms, and is not committed to universal hylomorphism either.[27] The issues here are complex and the historical facts are not yet well sorted out.

In other words, the front halves of trout and the back halves of turkeys are a counterexample to the universalist thesis that any plurality of non-overlapping objects compose a single object.

Indeed, from their point of view, the whole scale-of-weights analogy is wrongheaded: free agents are not mechanisms that respond invariably to specified 'motive forces.' They are capable of acting upon any of a plurality of motives making attractive more than one course of action.

[This is] distinct from the question of whether the BBC should be subject to any new plurality regulation".

Any coalition winning a plurality in the national Chamber of Deputies is guaranteed a premium that gives it a 55% majority.

It failed to gain a plurality in any of 41 prefectural and municipal assemblies that were up for grabs.

The final algorithm sought patients with any of the following: a plurality of ICD-9 codes for type 1 diabetes and a prescription for glucagon, a plurality of ICD-9 codes for type 1 diabetes and a negative history of prescriptions for oral hypoglycemics other than metformin, a negative plasma C-peptide, positive diabetes autoantibody tests, or a prescription for urine acetone test strips.

(A plural version replaces the singular variable 'x' with a plural variable 'xx' (read "the xs").) This leads to a familiar problem when truthmakers are sought for necessary theories: any entity (or plurality of entities) is a truthmaker for any necessary theory on the analysis.

Any decent art should be about a plurality of voices and stories, rather than a moralistic reinforcement of the status quo.

Right now, for instance, Mr. Romney would need 46 percent of the remaining delegates to clinch a majority, 38 percent to clinch a plurality, and just 31 percent to prevent any other candidate from reaching a majority.