Sentence examples for it cannot be relative from inspiring English sources

He even consoled a friend's widow by saying that "people like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion".For time to be "real", in Mr Smolin's sense, it cannot be relative.

He takes it as self-evident that the existence of the world cannot be relative and he does not show that the opposite assumption is self-refuting.

If it is said that moral judgments lack truth-value (beyond the claim of minimalism), then there cannot be relative truth-value in the sense that moral relativists usually intend (though it might be contended that there is a sense in which there could still be justification).

(A purely mechanical being cannot reason; space must be Euclidean; an effect cannot be greater than its cause; every event is determined; temporal succession cannot be relative).

The further argument, according to which truth cannot be relative to species because truth is eternal, can obviously be rejected as a petitio principii as well.

Although receivers cannot be relatives of judges or get more than one appointment a year, under current practice those restrictions do not apply to the lawyers and other professionals they hire.

It is of order 1/ N, so that it cannot be easily neglected relative to other kin competition effects.

It cannot be excluded that the relative difference in effect of RA on the suprapyramidal and infrapyramidal blades reflects an intrinsic difference in RA signaling between cells of the two blades.

Thus, it cannot be excluded that the apparent higher relative SHOX2 methylation in tumors with SHOX2 gene amplification is simply due to the presence of higher numbers of total SHOX2 copies and therefore also a higher number of methylated copies.

In fact, differential risk does exist, and it cannot be separated from the issue of the relative aggressiveness of the bacterium.

(Of course, the argument works by showing that, granted the different states of rotation, there are states of rotation that cannot merely be relative rotations of any kind; for the differences cannot be traced to any relational differences. That is, granted the assumptions of the argument, rotation is not true relative motion of any kind).