Sentence examples for formal principle from inspiring English sources

The idea of a circle, of something coming up again and again, was a formal principle of Goethe's".

The formal principle is the definitory formula, but this is obscure if it does not include the cause.

This formal principle, usually treated with a certain freedom, has been of basic importance in Western instrumental music since the mid-18th century.

Their formal principle is symmetry: presentation, by a poet who was also a lawyer, of one side of the case, then of the other, of one position followed by its opposite.

That objection was faced in the 20th century by the British philosopher Sir David Ross, who held that numerous "prima facie duties," rather than a single formal principle for deriving them, are themselves immediately self-evident.

In any event, Kant's critics questioned his view that all duties can be derived from a purely formal principle and argued that, in his preoccupation with rational consistency, he neglected the concrete content of moral obligation.

But universals and individuals are also formally different from each other, as they have distinct constitutive formal principles, and therefore different properties (ibid., pp. 91-92).

Asked whether the combinations were selected on formal principles alone, Fischer quickly responded in the affirmative.

The formal principles of the gazel were the same for both Persian and Ottoman varieties.

I can teach the formal principles of stories, but not to a person who hasn't really lived.

Lichtenstein is a classicist whose art expresses a devotion to standards — from those of professional cartoonists to the most exacting formal principles of modern art.