Sentence examples for cannot be relative from inspiring English sources

He even consoled a friend's widow by saying that "people like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion".For time to be "real", in Mr Smolin's sense, it cannot be relative.

He takes it as self-evident that the existence of the world cannot be relative and he does not show that the opposite assumption is self-refuting.

(A purely mechanical being cannot reason; space must be Euclidean; an effect cannot be greater than its cause; every event is determined; temporal succession cannot be relative).

The further argument, according to which truth cannot be relative to species because truth is eternal, can obviously be rejected as a petitio principii as well.

If it is said that moral judgments lack truth-value (beyond the claim of minimalism), then there cannot be relative truth-value in the sense that moral relativists usually intend (though it might be contended that there is a sense in which there could still be justification).

Although receivers cannot be relatives of judges or get more than one appointment a year, under current practice those restrictions do not apply to the lawyers and other professionals they hire.

(Of course, the argument works by showing that, granted the different states of rotation, there are states of rotation that cannot merely be relative rotations of any kind; for the differences cannot be traced to any relational differences. That is, granted the assumptions of the argument, rotation is not true relative motion of any kind).

The states of the experimental arrangement cannot be merely relative to other experimental arrangements, on pain of infinite regress; and so these have to be described by classical physics.

He also considered sentences of more complex logical structures, but nothing hinges upon their use that cannot be addressed relative to an example of the simplest possible kind.

The Office of Government Ethics, which oversees conduct for the executive branch, specifically states that a blind trustee cannot be a relative, and more generally warns about government officials' actions that could benefit the financial interests of family members.

The request must be signed and witnessed by two people (one of whom cannot be a relative or in other ways in a position of potential conflict of interest).