Sentence examples for obscure notion from inspiring English sources

Having implies this possession because "having always implies an obscure notion of assimilation" (Marcel 1949, p. 83).

The notion of intension was intended to be an explicatum of Frege's "obscure" notion of sense: two expressions have the same intension if and only if they have the same extension in every possible world or, in Carnap's terminology, in every state description (i.e., in every maximal consistent set of atomic sentences and negations of atomic sentences).

And the lullaby dreaminess of Sunday Morning, with its chiming celesta, nearly obscures the notion that it's about the paranoia that follows a night of chemically-induced escapism.

Moreover, the rise of the "anti-Washington" mood among conservatives over the last four decades has obscured the notion that greater local authority and representation for D.C. residents is simpatico with one of the most fundamental principles of the American right -- namely, the idea that local government is more effective than federal control.

"Merit pay," a once-obscure free-market notion of handing cash bonuses to the best teachers, has lately become a litmus test for seriousness about improving schools.

While El Chapo is widely described as the cartel's leader, that notion obscures the fact that Sinaloa operates more like a federation with multiple leaders who form something analogous to a board of directors.

But the notion of obscure judges — charged with ruling objectively on crucial, complicated points of law — being showered with millions from lawyers, litigants and other special interests who have cases before them is worse.

The most common complaint, however, is that the notion is either obscure, or, more strongly, incoherent or cognitively meaningless.