Sentence examples for vague sentence from inspiring English sources

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President Obama gave immigration reform only one vague sentence in his State of the Union address.

Siri Hustvedt Because I have never been to Hay-on-Wye, my anticipation of the festival is made of meagre stuff: a vague sentence and an odd photograph.

On October 12th, in the Speech from the Throne that formally opened the new session of Parliament, the government set out its resolve in a single, vague sentence, saying that "the principle of clarity will be respected".But how this principle will be defined is no clearer than before.

A three-valued assignment a into {T, I, F} may assign a truth-value gap (or rather the value I) to the vague sentence 'Picasso's Guernica is beautiful'.

Although Darwin had first worked out many of his views on human evolution in the early "M" and "N" Notebooks of 1838 40, his conclusions were kept quietly in the background while the debates over his general theory were taking place and Darwin's own views on human evolution remained unclear, with only one vague sentence on the issue in the Origin itself.

If taking out a line ruins the flow than replace it with a vague sentence such that doesn't mean much, but sounds like it could mean everything.

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"There is no 'royal we,' and no convoluted, vague sentences".

Things you should probably keep to yourself: Vague sentences that are a rehash of things we know already dressed as quotes ("Public procurement is important because it impacts services delivery").

Vague sentences resist mixed interpretations.

In fact, as with paradoxical sentences, some vague sentences involving borderline cases will furnish examples of true contradictions, dialethias.

As Wittgenstein was later to realize, the case of intuitively senseful, yet vague sentences plausibly constitutes a counterexample (cf. PI Section 99).

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