Sentence examples for ordinary instances of from inspiring English sources

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).

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.

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

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.

To the Editor: Read the newspaper and you will see many instances of ordinary citizens going to jail when they break the law, while the elites face a mere slap on the wrist.

Read the newspaper and you will see many instances of ordinary citizens going to jail when they break the law, while the elites face a mere slap on the wrist.

"All contacted electors offered up reasons for their movements that provided no evidence of systematic fraud, rather instances of ordinary movement, including but not limited to: moving to undertake employment, moving to undertake study, carer duties, owning multiple properties, and moving between rental properties," the submission said.

This is a conception of good argument which can be applied to many instances of ordinary argument, but there are many situations in which the success and failure of arguments may be measured in other ways.

The ordinary throughout is presented as instances of paradise just about to be reached.

Claude Lanzmann's "Shoah" (recently reissued on DVD by the Criterion Collection) is a notable and still notably rare attempt to explore genocide not only as a historical cataclysm but also as a result of innumerable instances of actual, ordinary behavior.

He commented that such instances of the ordinary being made scary made Doctor Who unique.