Sentence examples for self-undermining from inspiring English sources

The "Ashes" here is John Ashbery, but O'Hara delights in the self-undermining pun.

His persona, from the start, was that of a self-undermining cheat.

Alvin Plantinga makes a philosophical assault on Darwinism, claiming that it is self-undermining.

Atkinson's general rule is that things seem to get better with repetition, but this, her self-undermining novel seems to warn us, is a comfort that is by no means guaranteed, either.

There's no smug postmodern self-undermining (otherwise known as irony) here: the mythic arises seamlessly from the quotidian; telepathy or saintly intercessions are simply accepted - as they often are in Ethiopian life.

There is a sense in which failure is baked into the very idea of utopia; the goal of a perfect world — a holiday from history — is intrinsically self-undermining.

It is possible to retain the intuitive idea that the weakness of psychological connections between the two selves undermines the authority of the earlier self over the current self without accepting the metaphysical view that the earlier and current self are numerically distinct entities.

Call the conjunction of these requirements "the non-self-undermining constraint" (Bealer 1992; Pust 2001; but see Silva forthcoming).

As we have seen (§3.4.2), critics will claim that the argument relies on a questionable normative premise and violates the non-self-undermining constraint.

Even if there were sufficient intuitive support for [P1], defending this argument by such means would contravene both strands of the non-self-undermining constraint (Pust 2001).

Additionally, it seems clear that an argument for [P1] will require evidential reliance on epistemic intuitions and so contravene the non-self-undermining requirement.