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in a frivolously trivial manner
trivially motivated requests -
with little effort
we can prove trivially that this theorem is false
How To Use trivially In A Sentence
- This is unsatisfying in many respects, for, as should be clear at this point, we often need to nontrivially reason about theories which Impossible Worlds
- For the first time since Wednesday, I'm actually feeling nontrivially better. LinuxChix aggregator
- It's most effective used as a road map of the recent past, or more trivially, a window on what happened the year you were born.
- You can trivially renormalise to whatever period you choose. WordPress.com News
- In many cases, patients will not be asked for consent for their data to be shared, because it will be "anonymised", a process which deletes certain information with the aim of making individuals unidentifiable. letter to the British Medical Journal, Dr Ian Brown of the Oxford Internet Institute said that NHS rules mean such unwitting participants in research can be "trivially" re-identified. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
- A strict order is one that is irreflexive and transitive; such an order is also trivially antisymmetric.
- More generally: I want to say that it is indeed a legitimate kind of argument to argue that a theory XY looks good because it creates a picture that is nontrivially consistent with a lot of data we know while being a simple enough theory. NAS Panel Report « Climate Audit
- This would be trivially true if, as some maintain, the nonoccurrence of something intrinsically either good or bad entails the occurrence of something intrinsically neutral. Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Value
- One of the reasons Pittsburgh is nontrivially broken is that when it was a significantly bigger & younger city it accrued a large amount of pension obligations. Matthew Yglesias » The Other Public Sector Pension Problem
- a friend of mine pointed me to this article and said that a political science class that he was in in the 60s did an exercise to demonstrate to the students exactly this sort of bias in themselves, which was nontrivially disconcerting especially for those like Marxists who flatter themselves that their world views are based on constant challenging of their own thesis… Partisan Thinkers Don’t Use Reasoning