Sentence examples for mere sum from inspiring English sources

"Instead, Sonera repeated the aim to explore the possibility of partnering with another telco to unlock value greater than the mere sum of parts".

It is done in such a way that the whole is always much more than the mere sum of its parts.

It is impossible to visit Athens and not yearn for the day when Britain decides to right an ancient wrong and show that a beautiful artefact is more than the mere sum of its parts.

They believed that though an individual does not exist independently from the five skandhas, or components that make up his personality, he is at the same time something greater than the mere sum of his parts.

Combining models from different backgrounds leads to more than the mere sum of the separate results.

This leads to a total energy demand reduction potential which is smaller than the mere sum of individual measures.

Those Lakers seemed content to rely on a mere sum-of-the-parts approach, while this year's team has the ingredients for true success.

Sum theorists believe in the existence of mere sums (defined in 2.2.1) and hold that sums are things.

It has proven extremely tempting to identify matter with mere sums in the mereologist's sense, for the reasons just outlined.

Of course, if sums are object-like, and one has reason to believe that the only objects are structured ones, then one would have reason to reject Summativity and UFM which lead to the posit of unstructured mere sums.

The sum theorist must contend that there are no portions of heterogeneous stuff-kinds which are identical with mere sums, if they wish to avoid stuff-stuff coincidence (see section 2.1 of the main entry for the terminological definitions).