Sentence examples for mere forms of from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

All that is left to determine my way of acting (my maxim, in Kant's terminology) is "the mere form of giving universal law" (5:27).

Kant's injunction to look to the mere form of law at first appears to provide no guidance at all, and has often been reproached on this basis.

In arguing that it is possible for the will to be determined by the mere form of the moral law, independently of any sensible inclination, Kant had identified the will with pure practical reason.

But since the only candidates for such "pure intuitions" are space and time ("the mere form of appearances"), it follows that only spatial and temporal magnitudes can be exhibited in pure intuition, i.e., constructed.