Sentence examples for bridge law from inspiring English sources

Security cameras are aimed around the clock on that spot because it was believed a saboteur would need just 15 minutes of sustained cutting with a heavy-duty gas-powered saw to sever a few of the thinner cables and undermine the bridge, law enforcement officials said.

A similar idea seems tied to Nagel's suggestion that some reductions may require boundary conditions (Nagel 1961: 434) in order to connect the relevant kind terms in an appropriate bridge law, thereby altering and adjusting one of the terms' extensions.

The very possibility of finding a reduction function or bridge law that captures the concept of temperature and the strict, nonstatistical, role it plays in the thermodynamics seems impossible.

But given multiple realizability, the only way this can obtain is if the physical science constituent of a psychophysical bridge law is a disjunction of all the terms denoting possible physical realizations of the mental kind.

The concept of the iso-energetic brain 24 may be seen as a provisional bridge law (Nagel 1979) and as 'a patchy reductive explanation' (Kendler 2005).

The committee on laws of the Whist Club considered incorporation of this principle into the auction bridge laws in 1917 and again in 1920.

Kenneth Schaffner calls the bridge laws "reduction functions".

Exactly what is, or should be, the status of the "suitable relations," often called bridge "laws" or bridge hypotheses?

Multiple realizability forces this much revision to the bridge laws of classical reductionism.

These alternatives characterize bridge laws semantically in ways that seem more fundamental than their syntactic status and role in derivation.

Suppose that there were strict bridge laws correlating the instantiation of mental and physical properties, 'P1 ↔ M1' and 'P2 ↔ M2'.