Sentence examples similar to speculative foundation from inspiring English sources

This is especially true in his case, because he is not popularising accepted theories of physics; he is putting forward a speculative new foundation for the whole of theoretical physics that challenges much accepted wisdom.

The company said the claim was speculative and without foundation.

It is a "speculative" award, the foundation emphasizes, awarded purely in the hope that a fellow's great work will continue with the boost from this windfall.

Without any firmer foundation than speculative, self-interested theories about what hurts their ability to get elected, Canada's political class has a vested interest in minimizing the political activism of others.

A vigorously speculative rethinking of the foundations of Hegel's Wissenschaft der Logik (1812; Science of Logic) was engaged in by the major liberal Italian philosopher Bertrando Spaventa and his associates.

Many examples of medieval disputation are rooted in religious discourse and monastic pedagogy: Augustine's inner spiritual dialogues and Anselm of Bec's use of rational investigation in speculative theology laid the foundations for the medieval contemplative world.

In a speculative vein (though not without foundation) one must wonder what the mysterious woman's fortunes in Northern Africa would have been had her name been mentioned in the text.

Speculative applications have increased, and foundations are having to deal with growing numbers of incorrectly filled-in forms.

What you are really looking for are performance indicators (so you could identify some of the company's needs) or a job specification because these would provide the foundation for a great speculative application.

Their legitimism, or support for legitimate sovereignty, was expressed in the quest for a foundation, dialectical as well as speculative, for American democracy and in a dialectical interpretation of the history of the United States.

"We want to lay the foundations of entrepreneurial capitalism, not speculative capitalism".