Sentences with phrase «purely as an invention»

In the 19th century, space travel existed purely as an invention of adventurous thinkers of the time.

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When one views the world with no definite theological bias one way or the other, one sees that order and disorder, as we now recognize them, are purely human inventions.
The terrible invention is the concept that there is such a thing as purely physical or biological need.
Redemption through love is the end of Wagner's mythic teaching» but as he holds the sacred to be of purely human invention, it is «redemption by our own devices and without the aid of a god.»
«Shiraga's and Motonaga's work expands our understanding of the global evolution of modernism, dispelling notions that movements such as abstract expressionism and the participatory and process - driven elements of so much contemporary practice are purely Western inventions,» said Ritter.
As a result, as I understand the appellant's contention, those calculations are not mental operations but purely mechanical ones that constitute the various steps in the process disclosed by the inventioAs a result, as I understand the appellant's contention, those calculations are not mental operations but purely mechanical ones that constitute the various steps in the process disclosed by the inventioas I understand the appellant's contention, those calculations are not mental operations but purely mechanical ones that constitute the various steps in the process disclosed by the invention.
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