Sentence examples for perhaps ad hoc from inspiring English sources

It can probably be regarded as just a special case of the well known Duhem-Quine underdetermination of theory by evidence: many philosophers of science hold that any theory can be made to fit any evidence provided one is allowed freely to supplement the theory with arbitrary (and perhaps ad hoc, complex, and implausible) auxiliary hypotheses, which is essentially what Anderson was doing.

Even so, one might worry that this view is uninformative and perhaps ad hoc.

These findings reflect the importance and perhaps ad hoc nature of specific genomic combinations and their interactions during allopolyploidization.

CarPlay so far works only via wired connection, but a wireless version (likely using Bluetooth or perhaps ad-hoc Wi-Fi, depending on whether it needs to beam only data or video assets, too) has been discussed since the feature's launch, and was previously reported by automakers using CarPlay and Apple representatives as in the works for a future update.

Most church Web sites have a simple design, perhaps reflecting the ad hoc nature of their creation, which is usually by one or two volunteers, the survey found.

Perhaps indicating how ad hoc the military administration of the country remains after a full year, one activist, Lilian Wagdy, recorded an interesting moment of dialogue between one of the protesters and a military police officer during the rally.

Perhaps the only upside to the ad hoc way the postal plebiscite has been organised is that the whole thing will be over relatively quickly.

James D Williams Lead science tutor University of Sussex In Mr Gove's new model, a few "outstanding" schools may well dominate the system, collecting public money and (perhaps) purchasing some services from universities on an ad hoc basis.

Information visualisation design is generally ad hoc using trial and error, and perhaps prior visualisation experiments.

Called Musicians for Peace, the ad hoc group plans to participate in and perhaps even stage events in New York and Boston.

I thought perhaps he would resent the intrusion (he'd been my ad hoc mentor, after all, and I didn't want to appear uppity).