Sentence examples for mere form of from inspiring English sources

Some people have suggested the Occupy Wall Street protest is a mere form of street theater, that the protesters have a myriad of grievances with no particular agenda.

462, 471, Chief Justice CHASE said: 'The granting of a license, therefore, must be regarded as nothing more than a mere form of imposing a tax,' etc., and that 'this construction is warranted by the practice of the government from its organization.

Online games go far beyond a mere form of passive entertainment.

In these cases, initial impressions of the mere "form" of a material object generate approbation (T, 364).

Subsequently it has no more claim to reality than spatiality, for it too simply implicates a mere form of perception.

However, Kant also considers some other principles that may sound stable or law-like but go beyond the "mere form of law"—and thereby fail to be justifiable.

He was ready to credit England with a sense of nationhood wider and deeper than any provided for by the mere forms of government, and this gave drama to his otherwise unadorned chronicle.

While Kant does clearly allude to this theoretical background, it is noteworthy that views of the sort he articulates in the Aesthetic that space and time are transcendentally ideal, that they are mere "forms" of intuition, that they depend upon the "subjective constitution of the mind," and so on do not obviously make contact with the Leibniz/Newton debate.

By the "mere form of… law" Kant means that there must be some principle, some overall policy or structure, determining what I do—otherwise my actions would be merely random, and hence unintelligible: no-one would be able to follow them (not even me).

Correspondingly, Kant equates pure beauty with the mere form or appearance of purposiveness rather than with actual purposiveness.

This consideration of the mere form alone, the object simply as an object of choice, cannot contain any prohibition of use for an object, for any such prohibition would be freedom limiting itself for no reason.