Sentence examples for denial of existence from inspiring English sources

"That's a powerful mechanism of denial of existence".

The main reported barriers were denial of existence of HIV or of one's own positive status, use of traditional medicines, speaking a different language from the HSP, alcohol use, being away from home, perceived severity of side-effects, feeling better on treatment and long waiting times at the clinic.

For one, it follows that denials of existence cannot be made with empty names: "Odysseus never existed" is neither true nor false.

Because of his commitment to realism (minimal though it may have been) Kant was disturbed by Berkeley's uncompromising idealism, which amounted to a denial of the existence of the external world.

These misinterpretations led Reid, for example, to the rejection of the way of ideas (as it leads to the denial of the existence of the external world) and probably fueled Kant's notion that the British empiricism of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries with its characteristic inadequacies and virtues is one of the two great streams leading inevitably towards his own transcendental idealism.

The great controversy over Nominalism (denial of the existence of universals) and Realism (belief in the existence of universals) was incited by a passage in his commentary on Porphyry.

And his apparent credulity, appears inconsistent with his otherwise rational philosophy, though it must be said that belief in witchcraft was (a) not unusual in his time, and (b) was entirely consistent with the theory of spirit according to which to deny the existence of spirits good or evil, leads, logically to the denial of the existence of God.

Surprisingly, a recent fuss over a Japanese denial of the existence of "comfort women" (sex slaves) in the second world war has had little attention from the Chinese government.

Gutting section 4 is a denial of its existence.

And it is time that denial of its existence in the upper circles of government stopped.

He immediately launched a long denial of the existence of a black hole at all.