Sentence examples for kinds we cannot from inspiring English sources

For instance, wood and night are different kinds; we cannot measure them by a common standard, asking "Which is longer, a piece of wood or a night?" (B6).

While the reversal in Bermuda is the first of its kind, we cannot assume that what happened here is an isolated case.

In research of this kind we cannot rule out the Hawthorne effect [ 27], a mechanism whereby any changed behaviour can be attributed to participants responding to being studied.

States are not like "big persons": they are creations of an utterly different kind, and we cannot expect them to live by the same rules and principles we require of individual persons, especially those in peaceful, developed societies.

So, if "justifying experience" is a natural kind expression, we cannot be certain that experiences that seem to provide justification for beliefs will really provide that justification, and vice versa.

It does not mean that we are necessarily hostile to other kinds or that we cannot empathise with outsiders.

One, the Keystone XL pipeline was indicative of the kinds of things we cannot continue to do: dig up vast tracts in faraway places to produce more carbon than the atmosphere can stand.

Because there can be many kinds of pumps, we cannot identify being a pump with any of the configurations that realize pumps.

In brief: If we admit a certain kind of entity, we cannot but admit all the other kinds of entities that figure in the identity conditions of such an entity; we admit fictional works; so we cannot but also admit fictional objects because they figure in the identity conditions of fictional works.

Of course, "acid" is a natural kind term, and we cannot have a priori knowledge of the essential nature of that to which a natural kind term refers.

In America, in this kind of story, we cannot do that".