Sentence examples for a mere understanding of from inspiring English sources

As society comes to terms with the scientific consensus on climate change, climate scientists are being called on to go beyond a mere understanding of the phenomenon, says climatologist Gregg Garfin, deputy director for science translation and outreach at the Institute of the Environment at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

Wherever the evidential support relations are more complex, mere understanding of the propositional content of the justifiers will not suffice to issue in justification for a resulting belief.

Neither Bonjour nor Bealer are in fact particularly concerned to defend the analytic by such claims, but their recourse to mere understanding of propositional content is certainly what many defenders of the analytic have had in mind.

Kenyan authorities told Sengwer leaders that the framework was "a mere memorandum of understanding" and not a binding agreement, according to a complaint filed by advocates for the Sengwer with the World Bank's Inspection Panel, which reviews grievances about loans to government projects.

As well, one may now have direct introspective knowledge that one has an intuition that p while one has no such direct introspective knowledge regarding one's dispositions, especially one's non-activated dispositions, to believe on the basis of mere understanding.

They insisited on more than mere understanding & in doing so restored breath to a country that seemed close to extinction.

After all, Webster asked, "what do men gain by elective governments, if fools and knaves have the same chance to obtain the highest offices, as honest men?" Jefferson, who considered Webster "a mere pedagogue, of very limited understanding," never replied to his letter, and Webster added the slight to his list of grievances.

Rather, it must either be grounded completely a priori in the understanding or be entirely abandoned as a mere phantom of the brain.

Those affected lose their right to individualized treatment and understanding, as technical systems treat people as a mere collection of data points.

1. To this, we should add that the distinction between shared activity and a mere aggregate of individual acts is significant also for our understanding of failures of agency.

Students preferred class activities that closely resembled their future professional duties, and evaluation methods that reflect their level of understanding of public health issues instead of being a mere test of memory.