Sentence examples for ordinary claimed from inspiring English sources

To Nehru India was "an ancient palimpsest on which layer upon layer of thought and reverie had been inscribed, and yet no succeeding layer had completely hidden what had been written previously".Almost at once, though, the sordid and the ordinary claimed their places.

And, of course, campus tribunals judge students not only for politically incorrect actions, but sometimes for more ordinary claimed infractions, and in such cases the lack of fair procedures likewise is felt.

To historians and journalists who are keen to have the Court's papers saved and unsealed, advocates of judicial secrecy insist that the ordinary claims of history and of public interest do not apply to the papers of U.S. Supreme Court Justices; the only claim on the Justices is justice itself.

For the old-fashioned expressivist, then, many of our apparently sincere ordinary claims will have to be rejected.

Similarly, an ordinary claim of the form 'it is necessary that p' can be analyzed as: p obtains at every possible world.

At a minimum it is a stance about whether people are right in their ordinary claims to know, which is not quite the same as whether they are right in their ordinary utterances of the form 'I know that p'".

This seemed to open the way for a thoroughgoing empiricism in which the logical and mathematical fit in with the ordinary claims of physics and biology in a harmonious way.

For the deflationist, truth has no nature beyond what is captured in ordinary claims such as that 'snow is white' is true just in case snow is white.

To suppose that requires assuming that knowledge sentences do not have context-sensitive contents—hence that skeptic's denials are true at the expense of the truth of our ordinary claims to know.

Austin thinks that his objections to the accounts on which he focuses provide partial support to the view that our ordinary claims about what we can do are incompatible with determinism.

For instance, Lynch suggests that for ordinary claims about material objects, truth might be realized by a correspondence property (which he links to representational views), while for moral claims truth might be manifest by an assertibility property along more anti-realist lines.