Sentence examples for useless concept from inspiring English sources

If we are not to discard fairness as a useless concept, we must sharpen its definition.

"The public interest" is a useless concept, he says, because "there is nothing which is best literally for the whole people".

A then-new paper by Mr Fama and a colleague had been used by commentators to argue that beta should be discarded as a useless concept in valuing assets.

A few weeks back, we shared a video by Swedish Design agency Ocean Observations which demonstrated a rather clever (but arguably useless) concept: Exposé for the iPhone homescreen.

Some evil-skeptics argue that we should abandon the concept of evil because it lacks explanatory power and therefore is a useless concept (see, e.g., Clendinnen 1999, 79 113; Cole 2006).

She argued that dignity is a "useless concept in medical ethics and can be eliminated without any loss of content".

However, the authors adopted artificial and useless concepts on the so-called FC-spaces.

However, the authors of [45] adopted artificial and useless concepts like compact closure, compact interior, transfer compactly open, compactly local intersection property, generalized R-KKM map, etc. due to Ding.

Dijkgraaf wrote the introduction to the new edition of Flexner's essay, but since Inauguration Day the concept of useless knowledge had begun to seem a little quaint.

So again, the concept is useless for all practical purposes.

A different tack is to deny that a concept is useless if there is no effective empirical decision procedure for ascertaining whether it applies.