(More precisely, the sentence, 'If anyone is richer than everyone else alive, then Bill Gates is richer than everyone else alive' has this feature).
You won't be able to say precisely where sentences come from — there is no where there — but you'll know how to wait patiently as they emerge and untangle themselves.
As the investigation leads to Oliver's ex-wife and his girlfriend, Marlow begins to transgress the ethical boundaries of his profession, but Kostova's precisely constructed sentences give an air of detachment to what should be passionate love stories.
Aside from a taxing a reader's patience, this shaggy-dog style is thrown into unflattering contrast by Dybek's colloquial yet precisely built sentences: "It took a conscious effort to inhale its sharpness, yet instead of cursing the cold, I had a thought that maybe the purpose of winter was to make you realize with every breath that you were alive and wanted to stay that way".
And it is precisely counting sentences like these that renders Popper's account, in terms of all true and false consequences, susceptible to the Tichý-Miller argument.
But the metaphysical problem for arithmetic has a clear and correct solution: the truths of first-order arithmetic are precisely the sentences that are true in all arithmetic models.
Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly wrote: "...Fey delivers such blow darts – poison filled jokes written in long, precisely parsed sentences unprecedented in Update history – with such a bright, sunny countenance makes her all the more devilishly delightful".
Long before the debate with Hilbert, Frege already held that logical rigor requires the use of formal systems of deduction, "formal" in the sense that all thoughts are expressed via precisely-determined sentences, and that all inference-rules and axioms are presented syntactically.
It does not follow, however, that every offence that falls into the category should attract precisely the same sentence or that the tariff should never be questioned.
Fourteen years is precisely the same sentence now being served in the US by Jeff Skilling, the former Enron CEO who committed one of the biggest frauds in corporate history.
