Sentence examples for be less perfect from inspiring English sources

Kant's motivation for rejecting the view that existence is a "real predicate" was the so-called "ontological proof" of God's existence, which says, roughly, that God's perfection entails God's existence, since a being that would have all of God's perfections except existence (i.e., omniscience, omnipotence, benevolence) would be less perfect than a being with the same perfections plus existence.

This is the record of a depressive, a man who had come from next to nothing who couldn't understand why life should be less perfect than art.

Corresponding multilayers seem to have a more fine grained and smoother morphology whereas multilayers containing monoclinic ZrO2 phase seem to be less perfect with existence of larger grains of ZrO2 which are believed to scatter light and alter the reflectance of such a multilayer.

Therefore, we expect that mapping item data from Harm Avoidance with Neuroticism will be less perfect than mapping Neuroticism item data from other personality inventories (e.g. EPQ versus NEO neuroticism).

Although, initial studies in Arabidopsis proposed near-perfect complementarity between the smRNAs and their targets as a general rule, deviations from this rule were soon evident, indicating that pairing at some sites may be less perfect than others [ 1, 24, 25].

The limited deity is either not thought to be ultimate or it isn't really believed to be limited (that is, less perfect than a being could possibly be).

And if God had actualized more than one world and they had been of different degrees of perfection, then God would have brought into existence that which is less perfect than possible (a violation of the requirements of divine benevolence).

The stools on view are less perfect.

Thirty years ago knowledge and scholarship on Fabergé was less perfect than it is now.

Ms. Worthington's past is less perfect than it appeared to outsiders.

The grain size is coarser than that in schists, and layering is often well developed; mineral orientation is less perfect than in schists, however.