Sentence examples for generic law from inspiring English sources

This is a generic law to the effect that for every specific sort of event there is another specific sort to which it is regularly or lawfully connected.

But such inquiry becomes the inductive method science only when those gappy laws are themselves supported, not simply as spontaneous inductions, but there is a background theory, a generic law about laws, that provides for them antecedent inductive support deriving from other, related areas.

This was no tired, generic "Law Day" speech.

Instead, according to guidelines released last week, the money Congress approved for the initiative will now fund more generic law enforcement grant programs that have a "clear and articulable nexus to effective law enforcement operations, public safety needs, and crime reduction goals".

We found that, although the human mobility measures of different demographic groups generally follow the generic laws (e.g., power law distribution), the demographic information, particular the race/ethnicity group, significantly affects the urban human mobility patterns.

Mr. Coleman said the law under which Mr. Chiacchia is being charged is unfair because criminal acts can be prosecuted under more generic laws.

Mill, by the way, here agrees with Kuhn about paradigms or generic theories that they are not falsifiable by simple observations: specific hypotheses are so falsifiable but not generic laws about laws.

That is, he makes clear how looser methods of inference come into play as one moves up the generic hierarchy of laws, how these looser methods are reasonable, and how the generic laws they justify asserting can be reckoned to be confirmed by observational data at the specific level.

Basic common sense alerts us to the fact that we're getting played, but the generic laws of media politesse prevent us from saying otherwise.

Finally, Baló's lesions do not respect any of the generic laws that characterize Liesegang rings (figure 2).

The position of the nth band, xn, and the time tn elapsed before the precipitation of the nth band obey generic laws.