Sentence examples for a kind of ability from inspiring English sources
"When I was growing up in Texas," he said, "I saw the life of becoming a writer-slash-editor as something that wrapped up a kind of ability to be stylish on the page with an ability to be stylish in life".
Resilience is a kind of ability to resist risks, absorb the damage of risk events, and recover to normal operation situation, which presents high importance for the risk reduction.
Rather, knowledge or understanding is explained as a kind of ability or know-how: the ability to use 'the knowing' to "sort" things, which is to distinguish them into kinds and apply the appropriate names to them.
(In Hetherington 2011 he argues that we have no reason to suppose that at least some kinds of knowledge-how, including the kind on offer here, might not be a kind of ability (2011, 73).) Adams (2009) suggests that the results from cognitive psychology that present difficulties for intellectualism also undermine Hetherington's radical anti-intellectualism.
Indeed, at one point (in Book 2) Xunzi tells us that drawing distinctions correctly is what is called knowledge.[15] This takes knowledge to be a kind of ability rather than a sort of representation of facts, and it should come as no surprise that Xunzi did not explain cognitive errors by appealing to mistakes of representation.
But that issue may not be so crucial here, because even if Hetherington's account won't get us all the way to the claim that knowledge-that is a kind of knowledge-how, it will get us all the way to the claim that knowledge-that is a kind of ability, rather than an intellectual relation to a proposition, and this may be close enough.
This freedom is a kind of power produced by the ability to persuade others to do one's bidding; "rhetoric is a producer of persuasion.
To have that ability represented a kind of power to Trav: he would have won a victory over himself.
He has a kind of Mediterranean ability to love and to be open".
Those features, which gave Tiktaalik a kind of crawling ability, earned it the "fishapod" nickname -- a cross between a fish and tetrapod, or four-legged animal.
