Sentence examples for own except that from inspiring English sources

Putnam's landmark article "The Meaning of 'Meaning'" (1975: 215 271) introduced the Twin Earth thought experiment, which postulates a world just like our own except that H2O is replaced by a qualitatively similar substance XYZ with different chemical composition.

This model is therefore, comparable to our own except that anti-NMDAR antibodies binding to the GluN1 subunit cause seizures and affect imbalance rather than cognitive disorders in mice.

The other family — three members in all — mirrored our own, except that their single offspring was a girl and they were, on the whole, more ample; by contrast, my entire family weighed three hundred pounds.

We realize with some alarm that Chalmers's world is not that far removed from our own, except that in Chalmers's case the technological excess has caused a mysterious disease.

I find nothing abhorrent about this fact on its own, except that game developers rarely commit to bringing out the truly nasty, gut-wrenching effects of such violence on both the body and the mind.

Taking place in the not-too-distant future, Jonze gives us a reality much like our own, except that in this alternate universe robots are integrated into everyday society.

As one arrived, he said, in amazement, "Looks like 'A League of Their Own.' " Except that Madonna was a no-show this time.

Obama talked about strengthening the opposition and said, "We stand with people who fight for their own freedom" — except that, in Syria, we are not quite sure who those people are.

Although different preference models may have very different properties, they all describe the objective importance or priority in their own ways, except that utility functions sort the importance of solutions rather than objectives.

Rocks don't just move around on their own, except for at that one place in Death Valley.

Cameron is having his own Big Man moment — except that, in sticking it to the French and the Germans, he may have thrown his own country under the train.