Sentence examples for principles derive from from inspiring English sources

In the Treatise, Hume says that geometry is not quite as certain as arithmetic and algebra, because its original principles derive from sensation, and about sensation there can never be absolute certainty.

In a contribution to the inarguably cool e-zine Fifteen Credibility Street (masthead legend: "Our aesthetic principles derive from the avant-garde theory of The Anti-Naturals"), Dr Shortell argues that, while on the personal level religion might just be a matter of bad taste, it does much harm publicly because it is impossible to have religion without fanaticism.

In fact, infinite individual causal principles derive from one and the same divine idea, formally distinct from each other.

The connection has been taken by most scholars to mean that African moral values and principles derive from religion, implying that African morality is, thus, a religious morality (Opoku, 1978: 152), Danquah (1944: 3), Sarpong (1972: 41), Busia (1967: 16), Parrinder (1969: 28 9), Idowu (1962: 146).

Most interviewees made relatively equal references to most (if not all) of the five identified principles, suggesting that these principles derive from a general set of values that permeate through the traditional community.

Someone wanted to present "Native American peace principles" derived from the Iroquois Confederacy.

Rather, what made the decision important was how the court actually applied the principles derived from those precedents.

The practice is based on principles derived from the Bible, developed in the Talmud and codified in Jewish law.

But it supplements that with a vast array of other systems, many of which work on entirely different principles (derived from symbolic logic).

For the commercial use of such information, he has proposed a set of principles derived from English common law to guarantee that people have ownership rights to data about their behavior.

Among the first people de Rothschild consulted about Plastiki, in May, 2007, was Michael Pawlyn, an environmental architect at a London firm called Exploration, which constructs buildings according to cradle-to-cradle philosophies and "biomimetic" principles, derived from nature.