Sentences with phrase «in vacuo»

To suggest, however, that an individual personality could be discussed in vacuo would be to fall prey to what Whitehead described as the «fallacy of misplaced concreteness» (SMW 75).

This discussion has considered the projectile in vacuo.

Briefly considered, the mathematical aspects of the problem are as follows: If an aeroplane, moving horizontally in vacuo, with a velocity of, say, 20 meters per second, should release a projectile at a point, A, Fig. 2, the projectile would take a parabolical path whose form and equation would be determined entirely by the height of the aeroplane and its speed with respect to the surface of the earth.

There is nothing wrong per se with budget deficits viewed in vacuo.