Sentence examples for some sort of principle from inspiring English sources

A seafood sausage came perilously close to smelling like cat food, while the Mandler's Mix, which combines four different sausages in one roughly chopped serving, would seem to violate some sort of principle that prohibits turning sausage into more sausage.

As Stephanie, 29, from the US, said: "Don't get a tattoo and expect validation from everyone around you: some people (like my family) hate tattoos on some sort of principle, some of your friends might not like a style that you like and some people are just haters.

(As did Heinrich Boltzmann, Peirce came to hold that in the place of the principle of universal causation, some sort of principle involving objective "chance," that is to say objective randomness, is needed as an objective feature of the physical world).

I wouldn't run around pretending that you stood up for some sort of principle, if I were you.

What unifies Bayesian epistemology is a conviction that conditionalizing (perhaps of a generalized sort) is rationally required in some important contexts — that is, that some sort of conditionalization principle is an important principle governing rational changes in degrees of belief.

He's being a good dad to Jessica and some sort of reality principle to Joey.

It could be that some sort of complexifying principle operates in nature, serving to drive a chaotic mix of chemicals on a fast track to a primitive microbe.

To get to conclusions about epistemology, some sort of linking principle is needed.

If he presupposes some sort of cumulativity principle (i.e., that the better theory says everything true about observables that the worse one did plus a little bit more) then his theory is historically implausible.

The argument seems to be that if attraction (as some sort of active principle or force) were to be inherent in bodies, then bodies would always move, and yet bodies always moving is contrary to our experience of the physical world.

As Frege's remarks suggest, one way to underpin an argument against the use of enumerative induction in mathematics is via some sort of non-uniformity principle: in the absence of proof, we should not expect numbers (in general) to share any interesting properties.