Inexact Sentence Examples

It is therefore inexact to count him among the regicides, as was done by the royalists after 1815.

The identical relation between the ideas of space and time and the impressions corresponding to them apparently leads him to regard judgments of continuous and discrete quantity as standing on the same footing, while the ideal character of the data gives a certain colour to his inexact statements regarding the extent and truth of the judgments founded on them.

His chronology is, for a contemporary, inexact; and he occasionally inserts duplicate versions of the same incident in different places.

Excellent as a statement of the aim and method of Isocrates, and tolerable as a statement of those of Gorgias, these phrases are inexact if applied to Protagoras, who, making " civic virtue " his aim, regarded statesmanship and administration as parts of " civic virtue ", and consequently assigned to oratory no more than a subordinate place in his programme, while to the eristics - whose existence is attested not only by Plato, but also by Isocrates and Aristotle - and to Socrates - whom Grote himself accounts a sophist - the description is plainly and palpably inappropriate.

With this use of the word, philologically inexact, but historically quite defensible, may be compared the use of the word English, which is not exactly the language of the Angles, or of the word French, which is not exactly the language of the Franks.

A not uncommon definition of ethics as the " science of conduct " is inexact for various reasons.

He announced the existence of hydrogen, among other elements, in the sun's atmosphere in 1862, and in 1868 published his great map of the normal solar spectrum which long remained authoritative in questions of wave-length, although his measurements were inexact to the extent of one part in 7000 or 8000 owing to the metre which he used as his standard having been slightly too short.

The actual strengths of the two Turkish armies, owing to inexact and defective returns, cannot be stated.

Forchhammer, however, pointed out that this method gave inexact and variable results, as in the act of.

Laplace's calculations, it is true, were inexact.

The relationship between modern and old hundreds is very inexact; modern hundreds have little use today.

Custom and language were both somewhat inexact in their reflection of the accepted border of the duchy.

Where there seem to be allusions to the scriptures, they are often inexact.

Therefore practical knowledge, because it deals with particulars, admits of only inexact knowledge.

Joule afterwards proved (see below) that Mayer's assumption was in accordance with fact, so that his method was a sound one as far as experiment was concerned; and it was only on account of the values of the specific heats of air at constant pressure and at constant volume employed by him being very inexact that the value of the mechanical equivalent of heat obtained by Mayer was very far from the truth.

In early inquiries a great point was made of the prevention of putrefaction, and work was done in the way of finding how much of an agent must be added to a given solution, in order that the bacteria accidentally present might not develop. But for various reasons this was an inexact method, and to-day an antiseptic is judged by its effects on pure cultures of definite pathogenic microbes, and on their vegetative and spore forms. Their standardization has been effected in many instances, and a water solution of carbolic acid of a certain fixed 'strength is now taken as the standard with which other antiseptics are compared.

The Ada sincera Martyrum by Ruinart was replaced by the thoroughly uncritical and inexact Actes des martyrs of Gueranger.

Determining investment property mortgage rates is an inexact science, as mortgage rates often fluctuate and dozens of mitigating factors can positively or negatively affect the interest rate.

Swan's measurements, which had misled Bent into accepting a chronology based on a supposed orientation of the "temple," had been shown to be inexact.

Also, since all operations are performed with finite precision, the results are of limited precision and necessarily inexact.