Sentence examples for irrelevant ways from inspiring English sources

The point of putting the computer in a separate room and requiring communication by teletype was precisely to rule out certain irrelevant ways of identifying the computer.

But the point of insisting on "ordinary judges" in the specified circumstances is precisely to rule out irrelevant ways of identifying the machine (i.e. ways of identifying the machine that are not relevant to the question whether it is intelligent).

A fundamentally representative realist view can incorporate the view that the perceptual awareness of material objects is direct in the unproblematic, but epistemologically irrelevant ways noted earlier — that it is not arrived at via any sort of inference and that it intuitively "presents" material objects to the perceiver.

Instead, she blamed what she saw as the outmoded, irrelevant way the conferences were conducted.

From such a perspective national boundaries melt away and ethnic, religious or ideological differences seem an irrelevant way to define our identity.

He leaves the role in November after five years ("I always say, it's better to be asked why you're leaving, rather than when you're leaving," he says in a jolly, irrelevant way, since it's a fixed-term post and nobody would ask him anyway).

The iPod is rather monotonous in this category, so here is a nice, albeit somewhat irrelevant, way that Microsoft has set the the Zune apart from Apple's iPod.

"If I'd said 'gay' would you have objected?" It's irrelevant either way, I say.

It would prove what I believe many of us feel: the debate is trite, irrelevant and way past its sell-by date.

Even though strangers talked and laughed near me in the real world, their words felt irrelevant — the way a dinner party's hubbub might seem to a child playing alone upstairs.

In a field where psychoanalytic thinking is sometimes dismissed as irrelevant, Cathy demonstrated ways in which children's individual personalities could flourish.