vacuous
She looked down vacuously at the blank page of paper in her journal.
"Yes, I was beautiful, wasn't I?" she said vacuously.
It has been vacuously argued in the past that human mortality is the final taboo.

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Examples of vacuously

vacuously
The initial state of this automaton is the empty set of states, which is vacuously conflict-free and a downset, and hence a configuration.
The vowel coalescence shown in (3d) may vacuously be assumed to have occurred in (3b, c) as well.
For 2) we obtain that q - and q -> since n the conditions are vacuously satisfied.
The cases for reductions to wrong are vacuously true; we treat only one of them, as an example.
We show that any relator that has membership is strong, and that much of the tedious conditions involved in reasoning about strength are vacuously satisfied.
Furthermore, because its input-output correspondence relation is undefined, o vacuously satisfies all faithfulness constraints.
First observe that if n 5, then the statement is vacuously true.
We find this fact quite remarkable, as it shows that all conditions regarding strong functors in the literature are vacuously satisfied.
If she has no such belief about what she would do, then both counter factuals are vacuously true.
At antiproper intersection-types the first claim is vacuously true; the second claim is a consequence of the induction hypothesis since each conjunct of is antiproper.
This condition guards against languages with no functions, and hence that would vacuously satisfy the second and third conditions.
Indeed, if d f(d), then the claim holds vacuously.
A predicate at stratum 0 is extensional, and the statement is vacuously true.
As such, it vacuously satisfies all constraints on foot structure.
But, more importantly, it is not tr ue that dispositional counter factuals with impossible antecedents are vacuously true if "vacuously true" means tr ue in a technical, unmeaningful sense.
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