Sentence examples for cannot be defined without from inspiring English sources

Corrosion cannot be defined without a reference to environment.

'E!' cannot be defined without the identity predicate (Meyer, Bencivenga and Lambert, 1982).

But typically every physical theory T requires some new concepts which cannot be defined without using T (we call the latter "T-theoretical concepts").

Intrinsically systemic properties are those that cannot be defined without reference to the system as a whole as an ontological unit beyond the components that comprise it.

However, some worry that truthbearer categories, e.g. declarative sentences or propositions, cannot be defined without invoking truth and falsehood, which would make the resultant definition implicitly circular.

But it is not clear that such mathematical fields can be taken to properly represent physical fields without a metric: for instance, as Earman (1989, 106) points out, such quantities as the energy density cannot be defined without a metric.

"The right to adequate assistance of counsel cannot be defined or enforced without taking account of the central role plea bargaining takes in securing convictions and determining sentences".

"Sexual orientation" as a concept cannot be defined or understood without reference to sex.

We saw earlier the idea that set theory is the theory of one extensional binary relation (with equality of course: extensionality cannot be defined in a language without equality).

Article III of the Constitution limits the "judicial power" of the United States to the resolution of "cases" and "controversies". The constitutional power of federal courts cannot be defined, and indeed has no substance, without reference to the necessity "to adjudge the legal rights of litigants in actual controversies". Liverpool S.S. Co. v. Commissioners of Emigration, 113 U.S. 33, 39 (1885).

We should not accept the argument that our professional norms cannot be defined and therefore transgressions must be accepted without consequences.