Sentence examples for cannot be a matter of from inspiring English sources

Thus, contrary to strong AI, real understanding cannot be a matter of mere symbol manipulation.

A pound hither or thither on the family balance sheet cannot be a matter of much significance to anyone.

For smart people like Tonelson (or Gephardt), this cannot be a matter of simple ignorance: It must involve ignorance with intent.

Searle concluded that understanding Chinese cannot be a matter of performing computations on Chinese sentences, and mental processes in general cannot be reduced to computation.

On pain of accepting brute facts, it would appear that any attempt to do away with queer sums by restricting composition would have to do away with too much else besides the queer entities; for queerness comes in degrees whereas parthood and existence cannot be a matter of degree (though we shall return to this issue in Section 5).

Still, many — even many who think an appeal to convention is essential to making sense of morality — think that the proper account of morality cannot be a matter of conventions "all the way down".[4] But that does not mean that they think that the standards that serve to justify the demands of (some) conventions are mysterious.

It surely cannot simply be a matter of taking pleasure in the thought that there is someone worse off than yourself.

Despite claims that filling in the collections' gaps takes time, and despite "the scrupulousness of her editing," Ms. Christensen continued, "her reluctance to publish the next volume of letters cannot simply be a matter of scholarship".

It cannot merely be a matter of her will being uncaused.

But plainly we are able to distinguish the two cases, so it cannot simply be a matter of perceiving a relation, but something to do with our perception of the relata.

If this reading is true, then negotiations with Iran cannot simply be a matter of nuclear armament pressured by clear threats.