Sentence examples for arbitrary ideas from inspiring English sources

How he managed to memorize music that seems such a succession of arbitrary ideas is beyond me.

Contorting all that surrounds us to conform to "somebody's arbitrary ideas of beauty and taste," is, Mr. Budiansky said, human nature, after all.

It has now been established that the king was neither educated in arbitrary ideas, nor did he preside over a Tory revival.

But this debate has also made it embarrassingly obvious that the whole question of removing the vote from prisoners has more to do with emotion and arbitrary ideas of punishment, than any coherent theory of citizenship.

As well as using the aforementioned rules rather than some free flow of arbitrary ideas, composers have long borrowed ideas and fragments from one another.

After careful consideration Bolzano decided against the view to define a proposition as something constructed out of ideas (i.e., as a connection of two arbitrary ideas by means of the copula [has]) (WL II, 18); he rather suggested that we define ideas as those parts of a proposition which are not themselves propositions (WL I, 216, WL II, 18).

According to Kant, "….the Ideal …is based on a natural, not a merely arbitrary idea" (A581/B607).

In order for [A has b] to be a proposition, it will suffice that the predicate idea [b] be an arbitrary idea, in a way at least "pretending" to be an idea of an attribute (WL II, 16 18).

In what follows we will therefore take the content of an arbitrary idea to be the set of all of its parts (including improper ones, i.e., including itself).

For non-empty ideas (and only for them) Bolzano defines their extension (Umfang) (WL I, 297 f).; by using again the modern concept of a set (as we already did with Bolzano's definition of the content of an idea), we can extend his definition to all ideas including empty ones; the extension of an arbitrary idea i (or Ext(i), as an abbreviation) is then nothing but the set of all objects of i.

It is deliberately arbitrary, the idea clearly being to renounce completely the very idea of narrative causation.