Sentences with phrase «vacuous definition»

Fighting what he sees as the vacuous definition of marriage as a purely private relationship of love, Blankenhorn urges readers to work toward resurrecting marriage as a public institution designed to uphold what he believes is the birthright of every child — to have a mother and a father.

Mr. Marr cites the Randian definition of «altruism» in the abstract, but it is an absolutely vacuous definition.

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Unfortunately, this interpretation would yield a vacuous infallibility for CE, since it would be a matter of definition that under it the subject's perceptions in the mode of CE would be of (ale the actual causes operating on it.

My position is that you are a vacuous puppet - brained moron who is too fucking stupid to even understand the most basic of definitions involved here.

Definitions have become vacuous.

At the same time, the notion that truth means «correspondence with reality» is vacuous, for truth does not submit to intentional definition or informative equivalents.

The legal definition of «reasonable wear and tear» is basically vacuous and don't provide much meaningful guidance.