vacuously

adv — 2 senses

vacuously

adv

Etymology From vacuous + -ly.

1

In a vacuous manner, lacking thought.

  • Here, in distress that was consternation, and in fear that was panic, excitedly bobbed up and down a cowboy in bearskin chaps, vacuously repeating the exclamation, "Oh God! Oh God!" […]1915, Jack London, The Little Lady of the Big House:
  • He scowled vacuously, keeping at bay a horrible enlightenment on the mechanism of effort, which must drive into being a resistance equal to itself.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 211:
2

Human sciences, Logic, Mathematics, Philosophy, Sciences Because of being a vacuous truth.

  • The statement is vacuously true because P is false and P implies Q.

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