Sentence examples for claims about things from inspiring English sources

When you have a programme which is controversial, and right to be controversial, and making big claims and right to be making big claims about things, you shouldn't set a transmission date.

Simply having millions of hardworking scientists searching fervently and creatively in billions of analyses for something statistically significant can lead to very high rates of false-positives (red-herring claims about things that don't exist) or inflated results.

It is surely undeniable that utterances are at least sometimes intended to be understood as claims about things, properties, and relationships in the world, and as such are at least sometimes true or false.

Immediately after this (admittedly odd) definition she contrasts necessary truths with contingent truths, 'that is to say, when a thing can exist in various ways' (IP §7), indicating that necessary truths are claims about things that can exist in only one way.

In the first two Critiques, his general approach is to argue, for each antinomy, that both thesis and antithesis presuppose Transcendental Realism, insofar as they make claims about things in themselves; and to adduce Transcendental Idealism as the vantage point from which the initial contradiction is solved.

Other authors promise to eliminate the uncertainty inherent in the situation by making inexcusably specific claims about how things will unfold.

"We listened to people make snide comments about whether Vice President Gore was too stiff," Mr. Clinton said, "and when they made dishonest claims about the things that he said that he'd done in his life.

If each disputant, in taking issue with the other, is disagreeing about what is true, then the disputants cannot be making claims about different things and hence cannot have knowledge of the kind the moral relativist supposes.

Traditionally, instrumentalism holds that claims about unobservable things have no literal meaning at all (though the term is often used more liberally in connection with some antirealist positions today).

"I don't want to run the business myself". In fact, he claims complete ignorance about things such as production and distribution, leaving that to Lagerfeld company president Ann Acierno.

To illustrate with 'bank': if we mean bank-as-financial-institution, then no bank-as-building can serve as a counterexample to (1), no matter how unrestricted the domain of quantification since the sentence is not making a claim about such things.