Sentence examples for As purposive from inspiring English sources

Though it is directed toward other human beings, it is as purposive as the domestication of those wolf descendants that became familiar household pets.

April 14, 1886 West Newton, Massachusetts November 19 , 1959Berkeley, California Edward C. Tolman, in full Edward Chace Tolman (born April 14 , 1886 West Newton, Massachusetts, U.S. died November 19 , 1959 Berkeley, California) American psychologist who developed a system of psychology known as purposive, or molar, behaviourism, which attempts to explore the entire action of the total organism.

Self-serving attributional tendencies in annual report narratives are generally construed as purposive impression management behaviour.

The language and behaviour of participants were interpreted as purposive and situated actions which reveal perceptions, beliefs and values.

In the Introduction to the Historical Sciences Dilthey had conceived the psychic nexus, cultural system and the external organization of society as purposive systems.

Reflecting judgment makes this assumption through its principle to regard nature as purposive for our understanding, which leads us to treat nature as if its empirical laws were designed to be understood by us (5:180–181).

Third, Kant argues that reflecting judgment enables us to regard living organisms as objectively purposive, but only as a regulative principle that compensates for our inability to understand them mechanistically, which reflects the limitations of our cognitive faculties rather than any intrinsic teleology in nature.

As Rosenau describes the contribution of such a network, 'Here governance is conceived as systems of rule, as the purposive activities of any collectivity that sustain mechanisms designed to insure its safety, prosperity, coherence, stability and continuance' [[ 38]: 171].

Motivation is not seen as a mechanical or innate set of processes but as a purposive and persistent set of behaviours based on the information available.

The subject must appear as potentially universal, and the objective must show itself as a purposive order, responding to the subject's striving for rational freedom.

With respect to the latter argument, Simmons takes labor not to be a substance that is literally "mixed" but rather as a purposive activity aimed at satisfying needs and conveniences of life.