Sentence examples for fail to correspond from inspiring English sources

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One may think, for instance, that sentences (b) and (c) above fail to correspond to anything.

They fail to correspond to any physical phenomenon along the diagonal so they fail to correspond to any physical phenomenon along the horizontal.[1] How does this style of argument compare to the Kripkean argument presented above?

In so doing, Dennett suggests our qualia concepts are fundamentally confused and fail to correspond with the actual inner workings of our cognitive system.

According to McTaggart, truth is a relation not between a proposition and a fact but rather between a belief and a fact, whereas falsity is a relation between a belief and all the facts: to be false is to fail to correspond with any fact.

Just as we came to understand that there are no such things as demons (because nothing at all like demons appear in modern accounts of strange behavior), so too, eliminative materialists argue that various folk psychological concepts like our concept of belief will eventually be recognized as empty posits that fail to correspond with anything that actually exists.

How long can we continue on our collective apathetic pace, equating the sound bites that meet with our suppositions as fact, while dismissing those that fail to correspond as nothing more than hyperbolic propaganda?

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Numerical increases in school enrollments, though occasionally spectacular, failed to correspond to the legitimate aspirations of the people or even, more modestly, to the initial objectives fixed by the governments themselves.

Some social scientists have followed Aristotle's view that political instability is generally the result of a situation in which the distribution of wealth fails to correspond with the distribution of political power and have echoed his conclusion that the most stable type of political system is one based on a large middle class.

A counterfeit item will either be missing its tag, or have a tag which fails to correspond to the database, allowing it to be rejected.

So by this standard it appears that the idea of God also fails to correspond to a true and immutable nature.

This approach can be particularly useful for eliminating potential decisional processes from further consideration if, for example, the theoretical ROC fails to correspond to empirically observed ROCs.

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