Sentence examples for topical rules from inspiring English sources

Against Boethius, Abelard maintained that topical rules were only needed for incomplete entailment, and in particular are not required to validate the classical moods of the categorical and hypothetical syllogism mentioned in the preceding paragraph.

It is fair to say that approach 3 became predominant in the 14th century, the golden age of medieval theories of consequence; but the earlier Boethian view that all valid arguments (including syllogistic arguments) are valid in virtue of topical rules can also be seen as belonging to category 3.

Its unpredictable temperament and trickery are symbols of, among other topical scourges, despotic rule.

The conclusion, 'Socrates is risible → Socrates is an animal', is arrived at via topical reasoning, not by formal rules of inference.

Perhaps the themes of self-rule and justice are particularly topical at the moment; perhaps the word is finally out that there's a whole lot more to this score than the first 10 minutes.

Nevertheless, other factors such as fibrotic tissue-remodelling after surgical excision, the influence of co-medications as topical steroids or other causes cannot be ruled out and may have a significant influence.

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Houellebecq's topical new novel Soumission (Submission), which imagines France being ruled by a radical Muslim president after France and Europe "submit" to Islam, came out on Wednesday.

"We have a rule on the show never to do any topical humor," Mr. Rosenthal said.

As a result, today in Georgia, which was once under Soviet rule, bandages saturated with bacteriophages against staphylococcus are commercially available as topical treatments for wounds and burns.

The possibility of a mixed infection (Bacterial: Herpetic infection) cannot be ruled out entirely in this case since the patient had received topical antibiotics elsewhere before presenting to us.