Sentence examples for vacuous principles from inspiring English sources
And he's anti-war," another guy announces, as though this isn't exactly what Corbyn's critics accuse him of: being incapable of making difficult decisions, preferring to wring his hands on the sidelines with his splendidly vacuous principles.
Most official guidelines and policy statements, even fuller than usual of vacuous general principles, aren't of much help in figuring how to do any of this.
It would perhaps be easier to criticise his list of principles for being vacuous than to denounce it as a neoliberal screed.
Some treatments of logic rule out vacuous binding and double binding as a matter of syntax.
The analysis of motivation is itself a large field of study, and it has proved to be more profitable to concentrate on the specific explanation of individual cases of changes in behaviour rather than to search for broad explanatory principles that end up being nearly vacuous.
The truth predicate has to satisfy certain principles; otherwise the global reflection principle would be vacuous.
Logicians, however, say that universal explanations are vacuous, since nothing could happen that would show that the explanatory principle was inapplicable.
This circular-sounding argument -- that the universe we inhabit is fine-tuned for human biology because otherwise we would not be here to see it -- is known as the Anthropic Principle and is reviled by many cosmologists as a piece of vacuous sophistry.
