Sentence examples for numerical doctrines from inspiring English sources
Priority monism, Priority pluralism, and Priority nihilism are so far characterized as strictly numerical doctrines, concerning the number of basic concreta (one, many, or none).
3. the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group.
The doctrine's ostensible numerical solidity, historians agree, was wholly illusory – Trenchard was, according to Malcolm Cooper, 'master of the wholly unfounded statistic', his declaration resting on what Titmuss dismissed as 'instinctive opinion' (Biddle, 1995: n. 6 and n. 50).
The writers in this tradition are called neo-Pythagoreans, since they viewed themselves as continuing the Pythagorean school of the 5th century bc, and, in the spirit of ancient Pythagoreanism, they tied their numerical interests to a philosophical theory that was an amalgam of Platonic metaphysical and theological doctrines.
Its doctrines seem unexceptional.
After that, the doctrines diverge.
"I deplore doctrines," Kennan said.
Plenty of religions have curious doctrines.
That is the numerical equivalent of 24/7.
Those calculations are purely numerical.
