Sentence examples for ordinary instance from inspiring English sources

Yet the settling of the Quraysh at Mecca was no ordinary instance of sedentarization.

Recently, the debate about the differences between delusion and self-deception has centred on whether delusions (just like ordinary instances of self-deception) are explicable from a folk-psychological point of view (Bortolotti and Mameli 2012; Murphy 2012, 2013).

Regular memory, then, would just be a subset of q-memory (applying to ordinary instances when I was the person to whom the remembered experience occurred), and q-memory could be the relevant relation incorporated into the theory of identity in a way that avoids Butler's objection.

To use a trivial sort of example, consider the sentence (M) The number of Martian moons is 2. According to Yablo, typical utterances of sentences like (M) are analogous to ordinary instances of figurative speech, e.g., sentences like (A) The average mum has 2.4 children.

Such readings, alas, have to employ the concept of "power" rather elastically, since the conglomeration of traits of higher human beings noted above don't seem to be, in any ordinary sense, instances of "power" or its manifestation.

So we say that the set A has measure μ(A) in much the same way as we say that a certain collection of points of ordinary space (for instance the ones that lie on the inside of a bottle) have a certain volume (for instance one litre).

In an ordinary brain, for instance, there are about 20bn neurons and each one makes on average 10,000 connections.