Sentence examples for facie to from inspiring English sources

You should go back and find another one which doesn't appear prima facie to be offensive.

In itself, the Parmenidean thesis only makes a conditional claim, and it seems open, prima facie, to employ either modus tollens or modus ponens.

According to Russell, most thoughts that seem prima facie to be about concrete individuals are in fact not singular thoughts but generally quantified propositions.

Emerging science and technologies (EST) appear prima facie to be in need of integrated assessment because they are often characterised by complexity, uncertainty and controversy with regard to facts and values.

The main problem a dispositional account of sounds has to face is that even if we accept that sounds are sound dispositions, there appear prima facie to exist, on top of those dispositions, the individual, occurrent sounds – those that last when the disposition is realized.

A paranormal event is an event that seems prima facie to conflict with what he terms a basic limiting principle, i.e. a principle that "we unhesitatingly take for granted as the framework within which all our practical activities and our scientific theories are confined" (1953, p. 7).

Presented study is a prime-facie to show that the chosen structural configuration is advantageous and deserves attention of the research community.

That is to say, if a realist wants to claim that our prima facie commitment to fictional entities is justified, she has to provide a genuine ontological argument to that effect.

By contrast, the people unable to spend time with their families because they have to work so many hours to get money for food would seem to have a prima facie cause to complain of injustice.

Eliminativism argues that the prima facie failure to straightforwardly reduce mental kinds to neurophysiological kinds ought to lead to the elimination of mental kinds altogether (Churchland 1981 , 1988.

Before, the United States had to provide prima facie evidence to justify extradition, a tougher burden of proof than Britain's "probable cause".