Sentence examples for granting the existence of from inspiring English sources

Granting the existence of such a property gives pluralists a story to tell about generalizations like (55) and (56), but the response is a concessive one available only to moderate pluralists.

One might wonder what would be so bad with the first option that is, that of granting the existence of a separate, distinct substance in bodies responsible for the bodies' activity.

Granting the existence of a small fraction of men possessing true genius, he states, "this small class apart, both sexes have an equal share of inferior and superior minds," thus there is no more reason to exclude women from the exercise of rights than there would be to exclude the vast majority of men.

A would-be relativist about morality needs to decide whether his view grants the existence of some absolute moral facts, or whether it is to be a pure relativism, free of any commitment to absolutes.

Since he then took for granted the existence of absolute moral standards and universal principles of ethics, he condemned censorship as a moral evil that entailed spying into people's minds and hearts and assigned to weak and malevolent mortals powers that presupposed an omniscient mind.

Someone who poses the question in a comprehensive way will not grant the existence of the Universal Designer as a starting point.

For instance, if we answer 'There is something because the Universal Designer wanted there to be something', then our explanation takes for granted the existence of the Universal Designer.

Quine granted the existence of sets, in part because they obey the extensionality axiom: sets are identical iff they have the same members.

These considerations highlight a crucial difficulty moral realists face even if one grants the existence of moral facts: they need some account of how we might justify our moral claims.

The advocate of in rebus universals is unlikely to grant the existence of "being both white and round and either shiny or not made of silver", even in the case in which there is an object that is both white and round and either shiny or not made of silver (such as a non-shiny white plastic ball).

Both James Cushing (1994) and Mara Beller (1999) take for granted the existence of a unitary Copenhagen interpretation in their social and institutional explanation of the once total dominance of the Copenhagen orthodoxy; a view they personally find unconvincing and outdated partly because they read Bohr's view on quantum mechanics through Heisenberg's exposition.