Sentence examples for arbitrary facts from inspiring English sources

He noted that there had been three different indictments, and that the last one selected only limited and arbitrary facts from one small village that was part of "a larger criminal plan".

To be ingrained in someone, these cultural and somewhat arbitrary facts must therefore get past the filters that natural selection has put in place to determine what is important (and should be retained) and what is trivial (and can be forgotten quickly).When dealing with the truly trivial, the brain does not, it appears, even bother to learn anything in the first place.

The most striking feature of the original position is the veil of ignorance, which prevents other arbitrary facts about citizens from influencing the agreement among their representatives.

We are already familiar with morality depending to some extent on arbitrary facts about the world: if one thinks about the particular requirements that he or she is under, one will note straightaway the extent to which these requirements have resulted from contingent and indeed fluky facts about oneself, one's relationships, and one's circumstances.

Then we went around the conference table sharing arbitrary facts about ourselves.

By their past actions — and through the arbitrary fact of having been born in one place rather than another — they have become committed to a view of the world which they are unwilling to revise.

It was a disastrous year not because of the meaningless and arbitrary fact that a fire in an east London warehouse destroyed some important works from Charles Saatchi's collection, including Jake and Dinos Chapman's Hell, but - far more seriously - because of the emotions the incident licensed.

Since class of origin is a morally arbitrary fact about citizens, justice does not allow class of origin to turn into unequal real opportunities for education or meaningful work.

The mind can deal with plausible stories much more easily than arbitrary statistical facts.

For roughly 20 minutes per day over 5 days, the participants memorized arbitrary mathematical "facts," such as 4 10 = 23, then performed a more sophisticated task requiring multiple steps of arithmetic, also based on memorized symbols.

Combined with the fact that the choice to include or exclude particular activities is necessarily arbitrary, the fact that older adults themselves refer to a great diversity in activities that allow them to live engaged lives (Clarke and Warren 2007) calls into question the utility of constructing an active-ageing index.