Sentence examples for merely a special from inspiring English sources
This usage is a generalization of what the Greek philosopher Aristotle called the syllogism, but a syllogism is now recognized as merely a special case of a deduction.
Is science merely a special case or does Daubert-type gatekeeping also apply to experts in such fields as economics and psychiatry?
The English conservative writer Roger Scruton has described the controversies over usage as merely a special case of the debate between conservative and liberal views of politics.
I served as an expert witness for the library association in its suit, on the basis of my background designing automatic text classification systems, of which porn filters are merely a special case.
It has seldom been noted, however, that the swerve is merely a special case a transposition into atomistic terms of Aristotle's theory of accidents (i.e., of properties that are not essential to the substances in which they occur), inasmuch as an accident, too, as Aristotle himself had stated (Metaphysics I 3), is without a cause.
"Matt Chatham was merely a special teams guy, but he came in when we had some injuries and did a great job, and I think that he set the standard for guys that when you get in there, we still expect you do just like the guy before".
Merely having a special game won't do.
It is interesting to note in this context that according to a recent article by Chern (1996), virtually all of the important theorems pertaining to Riemannian geometry have been extended to the setting of general Finsler metrics, and that Riemannian geometry, therefore, should be regarded merely as a special case of Finsler geometry.
Now advocating the use of a universally hated drug merely earns you a special daytime Radio 1 edit.
But on Friday morning, when 5 Live went straight to David Cameron's speech and Radio 4 stuck with Woman's Hour, merely bringing us a "special" edition of The Media Show, it was all over.
The demand for the literal, too, seems overwrought; a leading character with two heads became, in Adams's hands, a sustained joke about split personality, whereas here he's merely a job for special effects.
