Sentence examples for mere concept from inspiring English sources

The mere concept of mixing philanthropy with profit infuriates many environmental activists.

Liberty has to be more than a mere concept or a philosophy.

But for many, the mere concept of keeping children entertained on the road has proven too good to pass up.

We should probably expect more from business students.The mere concept of business education is not a bad one.

It was heralded as government at its most transparent, a place where public accountability was no mere concept but an inescapable, moment-by-moment reality: Mr. Bloomberg could see and hear everyone, and vice versa.

The mere concept of recording news on paper is treated as a quaint novelty: You can cut it up and make your own headlines, for example, because it's an actual physical object.

We come to know these qualities for ourselves, not as mere concepts but as elements of our own experience.

Do they exist or are they mere concepts?

Controversy would arise over whether these genera and species actually exist (as realists would claim) or whether they are mere concepts that help in theory formation (as nominalists would argue).

In previous sections of the Critique, Kant has subjected pure reason "in its transcendental use in accordance with mere concepts" to a critique in order to "constrain its propensity to expansion beyond the narrow boundaries of possible experience" (A711/B739).

Kant then argues that because "the possibility of determinate natural things cannot be cognized from their mere concepts … it is still required that the intuition corresponding to the concept be given a priori, that is, that the concept be constructed" (4:470), which is a task that requires mathematics.