His lawyer, Lawrence J. Fredella, said that he was merely "in training that night" and that Detective Anderson had led the operation.
The group that hosted the event insisted that the governor was merely "animated," as in, "that guy is falling down animated".
They argue that since scientists find ways of choosing between empirically equivalent rivals, philosophers ought not to make too much of merely in-principle possibilities that are irrelevant to scientific practice (see Laudan and Leplin 1991, 1993, and Kukla 1998).
When today's audiences seek it out, just to laugh at it, they're not merely indulging in that most dishonest form of nostalgia, the arrogance of the present.
According to Maclean, the measures of "plague police establishments"—impounding cargo and ships' crews, erecting cordons sanitaires, and "shutting up" victims of contagious disease in their houses were not merely absurd, in that they were founded upon erroneous knowledge, or simply an inconvenient restriction of the liberties of the individual.
These two may well not deserve gold medals; they merely remembered, in that adagio, to dance.
The relation between a name ß and what it stands for is (merely) linguistic in that it is acceptable to specify what ß stands for with the phrase 'the referent/denotation of ß'.
Given that the reward participants received in this study was merely artificial in that they were reflected by the gain in chocolate bars summed up on an account, feedback processing might consist of more abstract, higher-level cognitions.
Epistemic malevolence doesn't consist merely in denying that we've achieved intellectual goods such as knowledge.
