Sentence examples for claim to wit from inspiring English sources
Kant's rejection of the more specialized branches of metaphysics is in part grounded in this earlier claim, to wit, that any attempt to apply the concepts and principles of the understanding independently of the conditions of sensibility (i.e., any transcendental use of the understanding) is illicit.
The blurb lays claim to a "wit reminiscent of Wodehouse", which I'm certain the author himself knows is a hopeless miscall.
The new geometry posed a radical challenge to Euclidean geometry, because it denied traditional geometry its best claim to certainty, to wit, that it was the only logical system for discussing geometry at all.
Invoke Churchill in the Boris vein and you implicitly lay claim to a stout heart, a wicked wit, a free spirit and a giant charisma.
His claim to authority on English usage was the essential sanity and deadpan wit he brought to the endeavor.
To wit: Now magazine claims Jennifer Aniston's dog is depressed, seeing a therapist, and entertaining suicidal thoughts.
To wit: They reject claims the reforms will kill hyperlinking or knife sharing in the back; or do for online encyclopedias like Wikimedia; or make snuff out of memes; or strangle free expression — pointing out that explicit exceptions that have been written in to qualify what it would (and would not) target and how it's intended to operate in practice.
To wit, the Jackery Air, which claims to be the thinnest 5,000 milliamp-hour (mAh) auxiliary battery made.
