Sentence examples for like dicta from inspiring English sources

(The idea, however, has many precursors evident in earlier debates over terms like dicta or enuntiabilia. See Klima 1993; Nuchelmans 1973; Bermon 2007).

Her convictions began to sound more and more like obiter dicta, and her attitude was as intemperate as her logic was invincible: either you were with her or you weren't, and if you weren't -- if you hadn't given up your illusion of having had a happy childhood -- it could only mean that you were in denial.

So the status, just like the dicta from which they can be obtained, constitute an ontological realm that is entirely different from that of ordinary things.

Obiter dicta like Saunders's pronouncement above highlight her irreducible problem.

The paragraph, he said, tells the world that the section of the January ruling about international law should be treated like what lawyers call "dicta" — editorializing about issues that are not necessary to decide the matter at hand, which has little controlling authority for other cases.

Like many of her famous dicta -- "People who eat white bread have no dreams," "Pink is the navy blue of India" -- Vreeland was whimsical, declarative, and a sworn enemy of the mundane.

To the modern philosophical ear, Abelard's dicta might sound like propositions, abstract entities that are the timeless bearers of truth and falsity.

Is morality like the laws of physics, ironclad dicta from nature?

Sunday's papers recorded more Nixonian dicta.

That is one of his simpler dicta.

Vaugelas' dicta were then taken too literally.