Sentence examples for convincing oneself from inspiring English sources
In fact it is "scientism" (and by analogy the confusion of doctrines) that Flaubert is arraigning i.e., the practice of taking science out of its own domain, of confusing efficient and final causes, and of convincing oneself that one understands fundamentals when one has not even grasped the superficial phenomena.
This allows one to engage in more and more immoral acts while convincing oneself that each undermining of the rule is justified and reasonable.
To circumvent this problem, it has become customary to sample π by running the SSA for a 'very long time', convincing oneself through different heuristics that stationarity has been attained.
Perhaps there is some comfort in convincing oneself that you aren't an oppressed person.
To convince oneself that "such are the times," or that "everyone does it".
As I understand it, the intellectual trick here is to convince oneself that fractional reserve banking, in which banks don't keep 100 percent of deposits in a vault, is somehow an artificial creation of the government.
At some point, confronted by yet another instantly forgettable heterosexual melodrama of a duet, one might easily convince oneself that all these international luminaries were in fact performing the same dance.
Watching him convince communities to give up their birthright is a distasteful experience, made more palatable by trying to convince oneself that it's an essentially pre-modern tale.
And the society in which a few donations here and there and giving one's vote to the right party are enough to convince oneself that you're doing all you can.
It could be that the bigger spend on the wedding is a misconceived attempt to convince oneself and others that the union will last and that love will prevail, despite the divorce statistics.
Attempts to formalise it into didactic public addresses must necessarily look either like bandwagon jumping... or slightly desperate efforts to convince oneself that one is doing the right thing".
