Sentence examples for rigid statements from inspiring English sources

GP 21, Patient 19 (past depression on antidepressant) Despite this, others used much more rigid statements, often to deny a psychological component, for instance "You don't imagine kidney stones".

As the Delphi progressed, however, it became apparent that any rigid statements about the need for culturally appropriate professional help were not going to be endorsed, because they alone precluded the right of the person receiving care to seek help that is close to their home and community, and which suits their individual needs.

The Netherlands was also the site of the international Synod of Dort (1619) that presented an especially rigid statement of Calvinism against Arminianism (a view that asserted the compatibility of God's sovereignty and humanity's free will).

Although the preceding paragraphs represent a brief outline of composers' attitudes toward harmony and tonality from the late Middle Ages to the 20th century, there is the danger that the broad outlines may be taken as a rigid statement of standard practices by composers at any period in musical history.

Further discussion of modal fallacies and non-rigid statements appears in Brogaard and Salerno (2008) and Kennedy (2013).

In addition, before they make rigid categorical moral statements that once again help elect presidents who are all too willing to plunge the nation into war, the bishops might reflect on their past history regarding pronouncements on nonnegotiable moral issues.

A rigid structure: The statement needs to be clear, but your personality should still shine through.

"Flexible, then rigid on command.

Typically, fans of rigid application rewrite identity statements to have this form: 'Anything is (a) P if and only if it is (a) P′'.

As Hughes says, the position "that proper names are rigid, and that identity statements involving only proper names are accordingly necessarily true or necessarily false," is "as close to uncontroversial as any interesting views in analytic philosophy" (2004, p. vii).

Kripke's arguments were very persuasive, but there are examples that suggest that his conclusion is too sweeping – that even identity statements containing rigid designators can be, in a sense, contingent.