Sentence examples for instance of the law from inspiring English sources

Like Balti curry, it's an instance of the law of unintended consequences.

The theorem is an instance of the law of large numbers.

That is, it is to say that S is not S (because it is P), or it is to say that it is S. We either get a contradiction we say, in effect, that S is not S or an instance of the law of identity we say that S is S. Neither option is satisfactory.

By showing that the actual structure of the proposition is quite a bit different from what it appears from the grammar of the sentence "The author of Waverly = Scott, Russelll believed he had shown how it might be more informative than a trivial instance of the law of identity (OD, 51 54).

The way the immigration legislation is shaping up, it would be a prime instance of the law causing more harm than good, as it goes out in search of policy monsters to destroy that don't exist in the first place (see here).

A world complying with intuitionistic logic, and where instances of the Law of Excluded Middle fail, will be impossible in the third sense.

However, none of the nonmonotonic logics described above give us this result, since each of the three instances of the law of inertia can be violated: by the victim's inexplicably dying while we are waiting, by the gun's miraculously becoming unloaded while we are waiting, or by the victim's dying as a result of the shooting.

The Associated Press reports that in Mississippi, for example, there haven't been "any high-profile instances of the law being used by businesses to deny goods or services to gays".

The left hand side being our density formula from the preceding section, it follows from this instance of the above law that its right hand side is an equivalent formula for density in the sense that it gives the same answers as the left hand side.

Now as the background logic for CM is classical there is nothing wrong with Cass's reasoning proceeding, as it does, from an instance of the classically valid Law of Excluded Middle at (A).

The ECI is authoritative and decisive in matters of elections for instance, where the law is ambiguous but it can be challenged in courts of law.