Sentence examples for speculative character from inspiring English sources

When scientists lose sight of the speculative character of their own inquiries, it becomes just that much easier for the on-looking public do so as well.

"The genius of England is universally admitted to be of an eminently enterprising and speculative character," maintained Once a Week magazine, a popular Victorian rag.

Powell's work, and the treatises of English and American writers that were to follow, possessed, in the words of Simpson, an abstact and speculative character evolved outside the courtroom, a feature lacking in the legal literature of an earlier period.

If not proved, or if they are of such remote and speculative character that they cannot be legally proved, the party is confined to his loss of actual outlay and expense.

Many prominent members of Darwin's immediate intellectual circle Adam Sedgwick, William Whewell, Richard Owen, and Thomas Huxley— had previously been highly critical of Chambers's Vestiges in the 1840s for its speculative character and its scientific incompetence.

However, as was common, he kept his "ontological" beliefs separate from his statement of the principles of thermodynamics because he didn't wish to (in his words) "taint" the latter with the speculative character of the former.[1] A treatment of thermodynamics naturally begins with the statements it takes to be laws of nature.

Finally, other factors of a non-speculative character also had an impact on natural philosophy: technological innovations such as printing, the telescope and the microscope, geographical discoveries, and developments within the universities themselves, such as the institution of botanical gardens.

4 The Court concluded that the claimed immunity would do no more than relieve the taxpayers from the duty of financial support to the national government in order to secure to the state a theoretical advantage, speculative in character and measurement and too unsubstantial to form the basis of an implied constitutional immunity from taxation.

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