Sentence examples for textual grounds from inspiring English sources

Some scholars are arguing for a pre-Confucius date for Laozi on various textual grounds (especially poetic structure).

Patricia Kitcher (2011: 115 18) argues against the single premise about self-consciousness interpretation on historical and textual grounds.

It is not clear, however, that there are adequate textual grounds for saying where Nietzsche stands on this question.

To begin, given the extensive ambiguities of the language of the chapter, neither approach can be ruled out on narrowly textual grounds.

Spade [1980] likewise argued in greater detail, on both theoretical and textual grounds, that there is no synonymy or equivocation in mental language.

As to textual grounds, Wang and Dai argued that Zhu was so enamored of his metaphysics of pattern and qi that he constantly read them into the classical texts.

Each trio of plays comprises a kind of trilogy, unrelated by characters but sharing common textual ground.

The italicised words have no textual basis.

He put the textual background in the foreground.

It is easy, of course, to applaud the decision if you believe, as many people do, that Yoo's muscular interpretation of presidential power is warranted on either textual or political grounds.

Distancing himself considerably from the orthodox position, Jinsai offered a series of arguments seeking to prove, on textual and philosophical grounds, that the Great Learning was not a Confucian text.