Yet invention in the fine arts and in the sciences is only a special case, and possibly not the principal one.
The need of innovating is only a special case, rare in the lower races, frequent in the higher.
Obsession is only a special case of psychic disintegration, a kind of doubling of consciousness.
Inspiration" signifies unconscious imagination, and is only a special case of it.
It would be easy to elaborate the points in which morals, laws, and economic values are alike, and to show in detail that the theory of economic value is merely a special case of the general theory of social value.
The present chapter is concerned with the general theory of value, while the rest of the book will consider the numerous peculiarities and complications which make money a special case.
A council or conference, as of physicians, held to consider a special case, or of lawyers restained in a cause.
Four harmonic points are for him a special case of six points in involution when two of the three pairs coincide giving double points.
These fundamental forms are the material which we intend to use in building up a general theory which will be found to include ordinary geometry as a special case.
It might be thought that drawing a line through a given point parallel to a given line was only a special case of drawing a line joining two points.
It seems to me, on the contrary, that he would not smile disdainfully if he were invited to observe a special case that is worthy to attract the attention and to seriously occupy the mind of a Lombroso.
The question as to whether there be such a common consent in a special case, is not a question of theory, but of fact only.
If three straight lines are proportional the rectangle contained by the extremes is equal to the square on the mean; and conversely, is only a special case of 16.
The reason was, she thought, that she did not need to explain to him that she was not a tragic exception, a special case.
The first thing each of them wanted to explain was that she--like Lydia--was a special case.
The old practice of appeal by way of special case as in appeals from justices has been abolished, and the present procedure is by notice of motion (R.
The law of effect is a statement of fact, but the question is whether it is an ultimate fact, or whether it can be explained as a special case of the law of exercise.
Of the two facts which, taken together, yield an inferred fact, one is often a general rule or principle, and the inference then consists in seeing how the general rule applies to a special case.
The final step in this reduction was to show that association by similarity was a special case of association by contiguity.
Only we called social consanguinity a special case of kinship, where the collective ideas on procreation play the essential rôle.
Diminishing returns of indirect agents is a special case of the universal law of the diminishing utility of goods.
This is but a special case of the monopoly principle; the government by law artificially limits the supply of goods offered by its citizens.
A sound theory of paper money makes it a special case of monopoly value.
The division of the ovum constitutes a special case of cell division, and it is important to determine to what extent the phenomena of ordinary cell division are related to those which take place in the division of the ovum.
It not only simplifies the next one here given, but teachers can at once deduce the latter from it as a special case by asking to what it reduces if a second angle of one triangle is also equal to a second angle of the other triangle.
The common chord of two intersecting circles is a special case of their radical axis, and tangents to the circles from any point on the radical axis are equal.
This, like the preceding proposition, is a special case under a later theorem.
The simpler figures often deceive a pupil into feeling that he has a proof, when in reality he has one only for a special case.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "special case" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
