Sentence examples for foregoing accounts from inspiring English sources

The foregoing accounts of characteristic experimental and theoretical procedures are necessarily far from exhaustive.

Against all the foregoing accounts of the function of art stands another, which belongs distinctively to the 20th century the theory of art as form, or formalism.

Presupposed in the foregoing account is a conception of human beings as economic animals rationally and self-interestedly engaged in minimizing costs and maximizing gains.

Lima, who recovered to take the bronze, was awarded the Pierre de Coubertin medal for ''his exceptional demonstration of fair play and Olympic values.'' The foregoing account is from Britannica Book of the Year (2005).

He ends by cheerfully observing that perhaps "a good deal of the foregoing account is less relevant to the experience of the average concertgoer than we might like to believe", in the light of the poet Giacomo Leopardi's observation that most people prefer a bad melody sung wonderfully to a good one sung badly.

There is an interesting connection between Peirce's tychism, his view that there is objective spontaneity in the universe, and the foregoing account of probability.

The foregoing account has explored the way in which Arendt attempted to connect the activity of thinking to our capacity to judge.

The following constitute a "start up" set of objections and replies concerning relative identity and/or aspects of the foregoing account of relative identity and its rival.

It is evident, then, from the foregoing account [taken as including the discussion prior to chapter 45] how syllogisms should be reduced; and also that the figures can be analysed into one another.

A person who has read the foregoing account of human rights law may wonder whether all the work that has gone into its creation and implementation has made any difference.

Combining this with the foregoing account of information, we can think of the content of a sentence as a set of possible worlds (namely, the set containing just those worlds of which the sentence is true) or, equivalently, as a function from worlds to truth-values.