Sentence examples for statement whose from inspiring English sources

A performative contradiction is a statement whose effect goes against its intended meaning.

Its Foreign Ministry quickly issued a statement whose curt terms departed from its usually cautious and opaque language.

For Mr. Picard, poutine is a cultural statement whose time has come for the proud people of Quebec.

Niels Bohr, the Danish physicist and philosopher-king of quantum theory, once said that a great truth is a statement whose opposite is also a great truth.

Four years later, he made a statement whose message was, at the time, rare for the left, not to mention the broader culture.

"This is a dire state of affairs," Mr. Miller said in a statement, whose tone recalled warnings that Gazprom had issued before shutting off gas to Ukraine in energy embargoes in 2006 and 2009.

Analytic-synthetic distinction, In both logic and epistemology, the distinction (derived from Immanuel Kant) between statements whose predicate is included in the subject (analytic statements) and statements whose predicate is not included in the subject (synthetic statements).

The statements, whose authenticity is disputed by Mrs Devi, are dated April 2000 – two years before she claims the medal was stolen in a burglary.

Some philosophers prefer to define as analytic all statements whose denial would be self-contradictory, and to define the term synthetic as meaning "not analytic".

In the first place, Quine rejected the distinction between "analytic" statements, whose truth or falsity depends upon the meaning of the terms involved (e.g., "All bachelors are unmarried"), and "synthetic" statements, whose truth or falsity is a matter of empirical and observable fact (e.g., "It is raining here now").

To make things interesting, Shtulman gave the students statements that were both intuitively and factually true ("The moon revolves around the Earth") and statements whose scientific truth contradicts our intuitions ("The Earth revolves around the sun").