Sentence examples for for insofar from inspiring English sources

For insofar as a creature can indeed predict its own sensory inputs from the "top down," such a creature is well positioned to engage in familiar (though perhaps otherwise deeply puzzling) activities like dreaming and some kind of free-floating imagining.

For insofar as it is different from the naturalistic project, there are a number of ways in which the physicalist project is questionable.

For insofar as relations of reason depend for their existence on the activity of the mind, it would seem to follow that something's being self-identical is mind dependent.

For insofar as defenders of liberal principles (based on the value of autonomy) claim that all aspects of a person's self-concept be subject to alteration in order to manifest autonomy, they needlessly exaggerate the commitments of the liberal position.

For, insofar as the concepts we use to make sense of our experience remain uninterrogated as to their own built-in interpretive biases, we tend not even to notice when inappropriate conceptual categories lead us to a distorted or inadequate apprehension of the phenomenon at issue.

For insofar as substance is conceived – along with both Aristotle and the rationalist tradition – as that which 'exists independently', Platonists in particular may wish to treat numbers not merely as abstract objects, but also as substances – and so, as objects in that full-blooded, substantial sense of the term perhaps more commonly reserved for concrete entities alone.

Pfizer's announcement yesterday is a plus for Russian businesses, and for sentiment, insofar as it shows the country is still open for business to Western-backed multinationals.

It's a diversionary read for me insofar as I gave up on New York City long ago.

Such an atmosphere will also make for dispatch insofar as is consonant with a fair trial.

And so non-fiction can be particularly liberating for me insofar as I'm able to put my difficult experiences to good use.

To record the actions of human beings as they are and to leave them to speak for themselves (insofar as they can) without manipulation, censure or praise.