Sentences with phrase «never predicated»

That's because Facebook's success was never predicated on the rational benefits of its gargantuan social network; it was always about how Facebook makes you feel.

While he does have a lot of miles on his legs, his game was never predicated on speed, so I'm confident he can adapt as he ages.

(ii) The acceptance of Aristotle's definition of a primary substance, as always a subject and never a predicate.

Not exact matches

Only entity in this secondary sense is predicated, and then only of «Entity» in the primary sense (never vice-versa).

As literacy rates rise, a clash with established structures of authority — structures predicated on the illiteracy of the masses — is never far away.

We can never look directly at them, for they are bodiless and featureless and footless, but we grasp all other things by their means, and in handling the real world we should be stricken with helplessness in just so far forth as we might lose these mental objects, these adjectives and adverbs and predicates and heads of classification and conception.

Their religious freedom was never in doubt, thus, their campaign was predicated on a lie.

But he never confused this logical notion of identity («things are identical» when every predicate is true of both or false of both» [3.398]-RRB- with the notion of individual identity through time, which is at issue here.

The audience is never in any doubt that they are witnessing a feature predicated on that premise, with each element crafted to accentuate the seeming insanity of ordinary folk procuring such an extraordinary setting.

«Information» was predicated on the idea that people were living in a new age, in which communication technologies connected them as never before and deluged them with images.

My point is that the «defeat of objecthood» — and therefore the achievement of abstraction, which is the same as the achievement of pictorial quality — is never secure but always unstable, and this instability expresses the fact that the defeat of objecthood (and therefore the achievement of abstraction) is not and can not be a quality that is predicated (once and for all) of things in the world (like color, shape, weight and so on).

Maybe not enough (to some, nothing realistic will never be enough) but next time you see a scary set of extreme predictions remember that the worst ones are predicated on a future that we have already steered away from (and which were hardly likely in the first place).

It is also predicated on assumptions, sorry but assumptions never help when your wrong.

There will never be a time when the alternatives become cost competitive with fossil fuels because their costs are predicated on fossil fuels!

His compendious memory for law never deserted him; in judgment after judgment he would refer to authorities which counsel had not produced, sometimes predicating his decision on them.