Sentence examples for may be vacuous from inspiring English sources

In linear logic, this implication is equivalent to its contrapositive form: the type ¬β ⊸ ¬α can be lead to interpreting the same function as a process that transforms a demand for a value of type β into a demand for a value of type α (notice that this does not happen with functions of intuitionistic type since, for example, input argument may be vacuous) [Curien 2003].

In passing, a comparison of the two models (SMM and MMM) utilising single-label datasets may seem to be vacuous.

Accusations of data fudging and scientific fraud in the case are found to be vacuous.

Finally, the accusations of fraud have been found to be vacuous, unsubstantiated, and unsustainable.

The truth predicate has to satisfy certain principles; otherwise the global reflection principle would be vacuous.

Liptak writes that the question in the case is "how broadly to understand the phrase 'any individual.' " The Second Circuit wrote that there had to be "a reasonable degree of specificity," and that the government could not simply and speculatively "point to a group of millions of people": the exemption may be flexible, but it is not vacuous.

Fear: That people will still associate me with that vacuous, suburban reality series: new K-free names may be necessary (anyway, how many muses are called "Kim"?).

But, while the religious zeal of some young recruits may be questioned, it would be rash to dismiss all recruits - such as suicide bombers - as ideologically vacuous.

Of course, that vacuous middle ground is an uneasy backdrop for this final homestand, straddling the belief that there will be postseason life and the reality that it may be now or never for goodbyes.

If cognition is computation simply because cognitive systems, like everything else, may be seen as performing more or less arbitrary computations over the relevant inputs, then it appears that the computational theory of cognition is both trivial and vacuous.

The former may be the best female singer-songwriter debut in over ten years; the latter makes Beyoncé and all the other über-marketed R&B/pop princesses look vacuous, unimaginative and ridiculous.