Sentence examples for merely from high-quality English sources.

• Goldman views anarchist violence as merely reactive.

• Seven years later the answer is in: it is merely really, really hard.

• In some countries the term commercial transactions is merely descriptive.

• I sometimes have the feeling that her entire life was merely a continuation of her mother’s, much as the course of a ball on the billiard table is merely the continuation of the player’s arm movement.

• The merely useful object is thus in itself nothing whole or complete.

• We have explored sufficient conditions for treating another merely as a means.

• By its form this states a merely necessary conditon for being a thing of sort “F”.

• This account takes quite literally “merely” in “treating others merely as means”.

Use merely in a sentence.

• On one “rough definition”, we use another merely as a means if we both use the other and regard him

• Whether Bastiat was a great economist or merely a great communicator of economic truths has been much debated.

• Anderson's central idea is that the (alleged) contradictions of Christian doctrine will turn out to be merely apparent.

• It involves a “distinctive quality” (p. 55) which emerges, rather than merely being resultant, from the neural process (p. 14).

• But given Anselm’s merely theoretical starting point, that severance was not merely to be expected; it was almost…

• But he does not identify his merely possible states of affairs and merely possible worlds with actually existing entities.

• They might defend the view that while it is always wrong pro tanto to treat another merely as a means, doing so is sometimes morally permissible, all things considered.

• These objections aim to prove the impossibility that the world is merely apparent by arguing that the elements of ordinary experience behave in ways that what is merely apparent does not.

merely sentence examples

• Austin's point seems to be that, just as a church can merely look like a barn without there being anything that is a barn, the table that we see in Hume's example may merely seem to get smaller, without there being anything that actually gets smaller.

• According to the Unequal Interests Model, the difference in moral status between paradigmatic persons and merely sentient animals consists in the fact that paradigmatic person have interests of significantly greater weight than the interests of merely sentient animals.

• On this topic, for those who have taken the vow, a universal characteristic of downfalls will be stated, so that whenever they perceive anything that has that characteristic, they should abandon it, and so that they will not become confused by merely apparent downfalls, or things that merely appear not to be downfalls.

• If these principles are merely reasonable, but not presented as true, then why should individuals accord these principles priority in their decisions about how to behave, particularly when these principles come into conflict with religious or other requirements that individuals believe to be true, and not merely reasonable (Raz 1990, 23)?