Sentence examples for the mere concept from inspiring English sources

The mere concept of mixing philanthropy with profit infuriates many environmental activists.

But for many, the mere concept of keeping children entertained on the road has proven too good to pass up.

Whatever the cause, there is something about the mere concept of "normal" that has become faintly hilarious.

I pointed out to him that in his earlier philosophical work he argued that the mere concept of God was incoherent, so if he was now a theist, he must reject huge chunks of his old philosophy.

The mere concept of recording news on paper is treated as a quaint novelty: You can cut it up and make your own headlines, for example, because it's an actual physical object.

When I asked about Gary Habermas, who told me that he and Flew had been friends for 22 years and exchanged "dozens" of letters, Flew said, "He and I met at a debate, I think". I pointed out to him that in his earlier philosophical work he argued that the mere concept of God was incoherent, so if he was now a theist, he must reject huge chunks of his old philosophy.

And while the show was filled with beautiful yachts that took years to build (and I'll be covering those too in the coming days), I'm compelled to write about this mere concept that I hope will be built one day because it's so distinctive.

It's important to note, once again, that this is just concept footage; Foxwell manually aligned the images with the digital panoramas, which themselves were hand-scanned and very limited in scope; he connects the digital realms he captured with using hyperlapse footage, which helps SiteSeer transcend the label of mere concept video into something of a standalone short film.

However, the meaning of this term ranges from a real object in the external world referred to by the word to a mere concept of an object which may or may not correspond to anything in the external world.

Cf. J. Seifert, "Si Deus est Deus, Deus est" 218, for whom the argument takes its "starting point in the objective essence and not in a mere concept of God".

It is true that such a concept remains abstract (the essence contained in the concept is not beheld by the knowing subject), but the 'theologian' passes from the concept to affirm subsistent Being, which is therefore no longer a mere concept, but something which must exist in itself.