Sentence examples for vacuous claim from inspiring English sources

It was a vacuous claim, he says.

Unlike unlimited pancomputationalism, limited pancomputationalism does not turn the claim that something is computational into a vacuous claim.

"This closure exposes the government's vacuous claim that the private sector will compensate for its brutal cuts," Unite's national officer, Linda McCulloch said.

If Ms. Murphy and others want to justify eating other animals they ought to come straight about what we know about the emotional lives of other animals from detailed comparative scientific research, and not make thoroughly vacuous claims to support their meal plans.

Anthony H. Cordesman and Khalid R. al-Rodhan of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington called the new Iranian claims "little more than vacuous political posturing" meant to promote Iranian nationalism and a global sense of atomic inevitability.

At long last, and buoyed by the outpouring of support from people around the world, she could express the emotions she'd kept in check for 30 years, the better to convince the scientific establishment that she was a serious researcher generating valid and groundbreaking data (some had called her claims about animal minds "vacuous").

The idea was to refute Soviet claims that America was culturally vacuous.

Davidson (1984) claims that reference is a theoretically vacuous notion: it is of absolutely no use in a semantic theory.

But if nothing is known about the generating relation that produces the structure, then the claim that there exists such a structure is vacuous, Newman claimed.

On December 13th, Patricia Hewitt echoed that rhetoric when she said the reform programme of the next 24 months would safeguard the NHS for the next 20 years.Unlike Mr Blair's vacuous slogan, there was some substance to the health secretary's claim.

If unlimited pancomputationalism is correct, then the claim that a system S performs a certain computation becomes trivially true and vacuous or nearly so; it fails to distinguish S from anything else (or perhaps from anything else with the same inputs and outputs).