Sentence examples for vacuous since from inspiring English sources
Logicians, however, say that universal explanations are vacuous, since nothing could happen that would show that the explanatory principle was inapplicable.
Shooting is then vacuous since the pistol is unloaded, so finally, after shooting, Fred remains alive and the pistol remains unloaded.
"The request for comments is a bit vacuous, since there is not yet any specification of what [the] input is needed for," reads one public comment posted on DBI's blog item announcing the hiatus.
The court's position is vacuous posturing, since alternatives to fossil fuels are not yet available at scale for heat and transport, or for electricity production on demand.
(By contrast, the corresponding decision problem in first-order logic with function symbols is known to be solvable (Maslov 1967).) Since irrelevant or vacuous quantifiers can always be introduced, this shows that the only solvable classes of wffs of T in prenex normal form defined solely by the structure of the prefix are those in which no existential quantifiers occur.
And yet, here we are with the bold claim that it's the biggest "ever", ie "since we imported this shallow and vacuous marketing gimmick about two seconds ago".
Huxtable referred to this first plan as "a heart-chilling cliché of standard towers in a non-environment of vacuous spaces, a familiar formalism grown weary and stale since the nineteen-thirties, when it was hot from Le Corbusier".
In linear logic, this implication is equivalent to its contrapositive form: the type ¬β ⊸ ¬α can be lead to interpreting the same function as a process that transforms a demand for a value of type β into a demand for a value of type α (notice that this does not happen with functions of intuitionistic type since, for example, input argument may be vacuous) [Curien 2003].
The Telegraph argues that since "we live in an age of aggressive, vacuous self-promotion" this has helped produce a kind of entrepreneur who is far more media figure than credible business person.
