Sentence examples for merely relatively from inspiring English sources

While acknowledging that the true Protagorean relativist can never be argued out of his position, Husserl holds that we 'normally disposed' people can nevertheless see what is wrong with the Protagorean viewpoint: the same sentence cannot be both true and false, and the Protagorean thesis, 'truth is relative', cannot itself be merely relatively true.

The postulation of force makes genuine motion possible; it does not tell us which bodies are genuinely in motion and which are moved merely relatively.

The top three seeds were in control of this region, and the only matchup worth really paying attention to is the showdown between the genocidal but relatively weak Kim Jong-un and the merely empire-minded but powerful Vladimir Putin.

Racism played a part: those who would suffer, said the British embassy, were merely "a relatively small number of very primitive people", occupying what a White House adviser dismissed as "a few thousand miles of cannibal land".

It remains to be seen, too, whether the scheme can work effectively not merely for relatively compact central Helsinki, but in the lower-density municipalities of Espoo and Vantaa as well.

Traders buying the puts are perhaps also long the stock and merely purchasing relatively cheap downside protection to protect the value of underlying positions.

In contrast, merely the relatively small frequency of patients with redundant prescriptions is further reduced during inpatient treatment.

Or is the club merely protecting its relatively inexpensive business assets while it can?

But the two candidates have a complicated relationship, one that can't be explained merely by their relatively minor policy differences.

Instead, we merely identify the relatively minuscule but still appalling amount of the budget that is actually wasted.

I was prepared to highlight the fact that most liberal/left commentaries are merely pointing out relatively objective realities.