Sentences with phrase «question is meaningless»

The question is meaningless without determining how much money you have invested.

Your question is meaningless as it is, because you don't tell us if you're likely to be in a higher bracket when you retire, or lower.

I think the question is meaningless because there is no standard of how «wide» or «narrow» the base of a political party must be, a practical guide to tell us (in the ideological dimension) what a «political party» is and what a «coalition» is.

This question is meaningless unless you first define The word «powerful» in the context of your question.

Perhaps the question is meaningless, because genuine future is that which is radically new, which can not be foreseen.

I get that some questions are meaningless, ridiculous, vague, unimportant and such, but then label them such.

The whole speculative thrust of these schools was, from the Buddhist point of view, misguided or unenlightened, for the very good reason that its questions were meaningless.

Until you answer it your questions are meaningless.

Not exact matches

But here's an interesting question for you: Is social media really that meaningless a distraction?

Questions about purpose become meaningless since there is no longer an intelligence or guiding hand giving inherent meaning to anything that occurs in nature.

Not content merely to question the legitimacy of particular rulings, theorists like Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. and Robert Lee Hale pointed to the example of the lottery and liquor decisions to argue that traditional legal categories like «commerce,» «due process,» «police power,» or «public» were essentially meaningless.

Lots of meaningless words intended to maintain the status quo and avoid the hard questions, such as «where's the evidence for your delusions?»

Asking «why» about some things is a meaningless question.

We can declare all other questions meaningless on the grounds that they can not be settled by empirical evidence.

Moreover, if all the formal possibilities are not controlled, we not only run the risk of fallaciously inferring the truth of one view from the difficulties of some only of its possible rivals, hut also we run the risk of trying to answer a perhaps meaningless question, namely, Which of two falsehoods (or absurdities) is more false?

as an actual scientist, it's more important to ask «how things work» than to ask empty meaningless questions like «why are we here» or «what happens when we die».

But questions of this kind appear to the great German scholar to be both irrelevant and meaningless.

The words used in traditional forms have become meaningless and have no performative value, or, if they have, it is open to question whether the evidence for their effectiveness can be found in church attendance or some kind of social action.

0f course, one could take the middle ground which may be the position of objective relativism and say that the question whether the past changes is a meaningless question because we have no way of verifying the proposition.

In my opinion, if a question doesn't directly better somebody's life in a significant way, it's meaningless.

So my question is this: How does that logic not make our understandings of right and wrong completely arbitrary and meaningless?

It is notable that no biological science has been able to express itself apart from phraseology which is meaningless unless it refers to ideals proper to the organism in question.

Griffin's official (i.e., fully explicit) answer to this question is that Premise X is meaningless.

I think your question precisely contains the answer of why I fail to see that everything is meaningless because that meaning «is diminished or non existant in the future.»

If every consequence of action were intrinsically equal in value, or equally lacking in value, or if the question of better and worse were simply a matter of whim, moral responsibility would be meaningless.

Thus it is meaningless to ask the question: What is a physical system such as a nebula, an atom or a solar system for?

If no one can prove god, then all the following issues, questions, and assertions you wish to consider are meaningless..

One senses that many of these other philosophers have not known what to make of this strange character who asked all the questions they held to be irrelevant or meaningless and believed many things they thought absurd.

It is a meaningless, unanswerable question, an argument about possibility and potential, and a crown that can only really be awarded in retrospect».

Pretty meaningless assessment, other than begging the question if that's what it takes why haven't Stoke won the PL several times?

The question of whether the labor should have been induced suddenly seemed meaningless, and I forgot about it — until about a year later.

Tangentially, your question doesn't seem to make any effort to establish why conservatism would in any way be opposed to transhumanism (unless you mistake conservatism for Genesis literalism), which makes it somewhat meaningless in another dimension

Added to the fact that it is a highly loaded question (even someone massively anti-NHS will struggle to disagree with «Whatever problems the NHS may have, its commitment to free treatment for everyone means it is still one of our great national symbols») and the poll is pretty much meaningless now.

Which is a very interesting question because it's so meaningless and stupid, and yet the fact that identical twins had an 80 percent correlation coefficient on that, even though they'd been separated at birth, I find fascinating.

A debate rages on whether President Reagan did or didn't have Alzheimer's disease during his time in office.With what we have learned in the last decade about the disease, the question is relatively meaningless, except perhaps to score political points.The simple answer: of course he did.The newest technology — consisting of imaging and spinal taps — shows that the disease process begins its relentless course as many as 15 years before a firm diagnosis.

The world inside those walls was chaos, and what I learned there is that the question of who's «right» about where the voices come from is beyond meaningless.

He finds his life is empty and meaningless, but he doesn't really know why, nor does the film honestly answer that question.

Many of the questions are worded so badly that the results are rather meaningless.

«There's no question that Elizabeth Natale has captured the mood among classroom teachers who are caught in the straitjacket of the Common Core and the entire regimen that evaluates teachers on the basis of their students» scores on virtually meaningless standardized exams,» said author Jonathan Kozol, who wrote the classic «Death at an Early Age» about his first year teaching in Boston.

An individual suffering from existential depression questions the meaning of life and often feels it is meaningless.

«The right of libraries to communicate, by dedicated terminals, the works they hold in their collections would risk being rendered largely meaningless, or indeed ineffective, if they did not have an ancillary right to digitize the works in question,» the court said.

Could there be more meaningless questions to analyze?

Now your question is added to my haunting burdens... are you truly roleplaying if the game offers you no choice or if the choice is essentially meaningless?

Such a statement is meaningless, however, unless the question of why those materials became signifiers for an entire generation is considered.

«In a world saturated with spectacle and the kind of augmented reality made possible through the digital, Irwin's work, by contrast, raises critical questions about the fundamental nature of how and what we perceive and the value of «looking at and seeing all of those things that have been going on all along but previously have been too incidental or meaningless to really enter into our visual structure, our picture of the world.

The big questions, such as the end of painting with the birth of photography, or the polarization between abstraction and representation, are just meaningless in the world of Postmodern thought.

If you can not answer those questions I would suggest that you are indulging in meaningless hand - waving.

But in that case, the concept is meaningless as a moral criterion: it leaves open the question of what is the good of individual men and how does one determine it?

But the 25 percent «mandate» was so meaningless it begged the question of why it existed in the first place.

Thus tolerance for Risk is meaningless in such questions; Uncertainty removes all sense of Risk entirely, no cost / benefit formulation, no statistical distribution containing a mean, no Risk preference can be expressed.