On this path they first arrived at quite special principles, and then at more general ones.
He says that because we seek to subsume every truth known to us under a more general truth, as far as this process can be carried, this is nothing else than the pursuit of the unconditioned, which we already presuppose.
Thus it is fundamentally false that our search for higher grounds of knowledge, more general truths, springs from the presupposition of an object unconditioned in its being, or has anything whatever in common with this.
To take a more general point: what interest had primitive theology in dating back the Messiahship of Jesus to the time of His earthly ministry?
Much, however, in this First Report is naturally of a more general character.
General Thompson, for the most part, subordinated the question of the day to one of a more general character, viz.
Perhaps this is in many cases a more general, at least more insurmountable, strangeness than that afforded by differences and incomprehensibilities.
The former conception serves a mainly philosophical purpose, and is designed, principally, to exhibit space as an instance of a more general conception.
In summing up the distinctive argument of this Section, we may give it a more general form, and discuss the conditions of measurement in any continuous manifold, i.
But the existence of variations is not only of interest for the problem of the origin of species; it has also a more general interest.
Thirdly, lies are divided in a more general way, with respect to their relation to some end, whether or not this increase or diminish their gravity: and in this way the division comprises eight kinds, as stated in the Second Objection.
Now the same actions are considered by the king, but under a more general aspect, as by his subjects who obey: since many obey one king in various departments.
The second reason is, in order that the knowledge of God may be more general.
Pride is in the irascible, not only as a part of the sensitive appetite, but also as having a more general signification, as stated above.
Since 1850, however, the practice of setting out single plants has become more general.
This was done under a more general act of 1827, by which the President was authorized to take proper measures to preserve the live oak timber growing on the federal lands.
Did he, then, either contribute to the proof of a general law or discover further characteristics of things already known in a more general way?
Before passing on, we may notice two objections of a more general character, that are often made to the Jewish miracles.
Before concluding this chapter, we must notice four arguments of a more general character; all of which are undisputed, and all of which are distinctly in favour of the Jewish Religion.
It was ostensibly appropriated to a more general purpose, but the intent was well understood.
A more general plan is to bleach the citrate of lime by covering it with a weak solution of chloride of lime, exposing it in shallow vessels to the sun's rays, and rewashing it before decomposing it with sulphuric acid.
The word confection has a more general application, and implies any sweetmeat or composition in which sugar is the principal ingredient.
They who have a more general knowledge of languages, could produce, I make no doubt, many other and equally striking examples.
So that poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general, as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions, than the other art.
It remains now to describe other forms which are of more general application.
More general in its appeal still is the argument from the affections, which has been beautifully developed in Tennyson's In Memoriam.
We have adopted the original or the official name according to which of the two has come into the more general use in Western books.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "more general" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
