Sentence examples for problem of definitions from inspiring English sources

Then there is the problem of definitions.

They also became bogged down in the problem of definitions.

Kevin Hassett, of the American Enterprise Institute, a free-market think-tank, reckons the return should fall fast enough as wealth builds that the share of income that goes to the owners of capital should not rise (as Mr Piketty suggests it does).This disagreement is partly a problem of definitions.

There is again a problem of definitions, and results could receive different explanation, but the above could well lead to a loss of reliability in diagnosis, because in the core of this disorder is the assessment of the inner experience and not of externally observed behavior, which is much easier.

(What is the ratio of rock masterworks to rock dross?) But such approaches come up against the problem of definition.

Deciding the extent to which there has actually been any secularization of myth involves a problem of definition.

To resolve the problem of definition, scholars of comparative mysticism have opted for inclusive approaches that discuss religious uses of alternate states of consciousness without further qualifications.

He also suggested that this problem of definition had limited the interpretation of our trial of treatments for chronic fatigue syndrome, published recently in The Lancet.

The conflict presents a problem of definition: as long as there are bands of violent Islamic radicals anywhere in the world who find it attractive to call themselves Al Qaeda, a formal state of war may exist between Al Qaeda and America.

IBM's problems in the 1980s did not stem from caring too much about shareholder value (it was fixated by "tolerant" ideas like lifetime employment).This is arguably just a problem of definition.

If pacifism is defined as a commitment to nonviolence, we encounter the same problem of definition.