Sentence examples for on its conformity from inspiring English sources

As Rosier puts it, "The correctness of a statement does not depend solely on its conformity with the rules of grammar but equally on its adequateness with its signifying intention.

The main rationale expressed by receptive respondents is that the legitimacy of a method depends on its capacity to adequately respond to a research question and not on its conformity to the experimental canon.

In what he described, in the preface to the second edition (1787) of the Critique of Pure Reason, as his "Copernican" revolution, he proposed that knowledge should not depend on the conformity of a judgment to an object in experience; rather, the existence of an object in experience should depend on its conformity to human knowledge.

For part of Chomsky's view has to do with the modularity of the natural language faculty: whether a sentence is grammatical or not depends not on its relation to our thought and communicative projects, but entirely on its conformity with the internal principles of that specific faculty.

Those who judge the morality of an action on the basis of its known or expected consequences are consequentialist; those who judge the morality of an action on the basis of its conformity to certain kinds of laws, prohibitions, or positive commandments are deontologists.

The language is fortunate that no linguistic politburo has ever arisen to bully English-speakers and impose its conformity on us all.Matt Simon BostonSIR – Amending English will be welcomed by children who cannot cope with the spelling of, for example, "cycle", which sounds different when in "bicycle".

The movie is, of course, an attack on America — its innocence, its conformity, its savagery — though von Trier is interested not in the life of this country (he's never been here) but in the ways he can exploit European disdain for it.

Costa Mesa doesn't need lockstep conformity on its council; we need reasoned debate and willingness to consider multiple viewpoints.

Brooks put the blame for Twain's failure to develop on the thinness of American life, its cult of worldly success, its hearty insistence on conformity, and its — odd note now — "woman-centered" cult of literature.

But the institution of Remembrance, its insistence on unthinking conformity and its vain performance of remembering, is not about respect.

India's democracy imposes no narrow conformities on its citizens.