Sentence examples for proves upon from inspiring English sources

Since philosophy's aim is truth and much of what appears to us proves upon analysis to be correct, phainomena provide both an impetus to philosophize and a check on some of its more extravagant impulses.

Irving Copi's Introduction to Logic an influential text book from the mid-twentieth century defines a fallacy as "a form of argument that seems to be correct but which proves, upon examination, not to be so".

For him faith is, as Keats said of philosophy, something "proved upon our pulses".

Many senior members of the traditional Republican party proved upon examination not substantially different.

To everyone's relief, Don Cheadle proved upon arrival to be in favour of keeping the vibe calm.

He's seeing a penumbra of particles and antiparticles from the quantum vacuum that prove, upon close inspection, to be strings, tubes, cones and manifolds: an opening display of Einsteinian wisdom.

After publishing two best-selling memoirs, "A Million Little Pieces" and "My Friend Leonard," which proved upon examination to be insufficiently factual, James Frey has brought forth a novel, "Bright Shiny Morning," whose greatest problem (though not its only one) is that it's insufficiently fictional.

Here he argued that "guerrillamen, when captured in fair fight and open warfare, should be treated as the regular partisan is, until special crimes, such as murder, or the killing of prisoners, or the sacking of places, are proved upon them".