Sentence examples for claim to the effect from inspiring English sources
A typical desert claim is a claim to the effect that someone deserves something from someone on some basis.
A typical entitlement claim is a claim to the effect that someone is entitled to something from someone on some basis.
The first conception, the 'absolute' conception, takes a moral principle to be a universal claim to the effect that all actions of a certain type are overall wrong (or right).
J.L. Mackie, for instance, has argued that alethic absolutism is a requisite of a coherent notion of truth and that a claim to the effect that "There are no absolute truths" is absolutely self-refuting (Mackie 1964: 200).
On an interventionist construal, (12.1) is unpacked as a claim to the effect that under some possible intervention that changes St, there would be an associated change in St+d.
Piccolomini's aim was to disarm a traditional claim to the effect that mathematics derives its certainty on account of its use of "scientific demonstrations" in the Aristotelean sense (such proofs were known as "potissimae" in the Renaissance).
Claims to the effect that actual people know actual facts about the world are contingent propositions about the world.
The crucial steps in this reasoning are claims to the effect that a subconclusion or conclusion is a presupposition and necessary condition of a premise.
Many older characterizations of platonism add strong epistemological claims to the effect that we have some immediate grasp of, or insight into, the realm of abstract objects.
4. Transcendental arguments involve transcendental claims, to the effect that X is a necessary condition for the possibility of Y, where in saying this, the arguments do not assume this to be a matter of merely causal or natural necessity.
That is, the realist need never grant the debunker's strong claims to the effect that our moral beliefs across the board are saturated with evolutionary influence (see section 2).
