Sentence examples for false objectives from inspiring English sources

In his best known play, Le Ping-pong (performed 1955), the powerful central image is that of a pinball machine to which the characters surrender themselves in a never-ending, aimless game of chance, perfectly illustrating man's adherence to false objectives and the futility of his busy endeavours.

Another reason for suspicion of reference-level propositions is that commentators often follow Russell in his post-1904 averspecificallycally to false objectives, that is, to false propositions in re (Russell 1966: 152; Cartwright 1987: 79 84).

"The idea of a big international drought agency is a false objective.

Try to blend into the area not duck behind canisters, cars etc. Make sure that you have a false objective in mind.

While psychometrics offered the false allure of objective fact, the new science brings us back into contact with literature, history and the humanities, and, ultimately, to the uniqueness of the individual.

It may be considered non-realist in the sense that it does not treat religious beliefs as straightforward metaphysical claims that can be adjudicated philosophically as either true or false concerning an objective reality.

For a more comprehensive survey of this issue cf. Noa Shein, "The False Dichotomy between Objective and Subjective Interpretations of Spinoza's Theory of Attributes," British Journal for the History of Philosophy, forthcoming (2009).

But there is also a class of so-called "non-bizarre delusions" in which a person adamantly insists on an idea or event that has been shown to be irrefutably false by overwhelming objective evidence.

He said: "It is impossible to promote healthy dialog with bad-faith actors, who regularly produce toxic, dangerous and demonstrably false conspiracy theories; the objective of which is to mislead, radicalize, divide".

Objective validity, in turn, is a necessary but not sufficient condition of truth, and hence of objectively real propositions, for false judgments are also objectively valid (A58/B83).

We consider sweeps of η in order to show how a system would react when subject to differing cost objectives as trade-offs between false positives and false negatives.