Sentence examples for accept a notion from inspiring English sources

In the five centuries since Copernicus demolished the ancient vision of a geocentric universe, most of us have come to accept a notion of the earth as a moving cog in a clockwork cosmos.

Suppose one accepts a notion of epistemic justification with internalist resonances saying that a factor J is relevant to s's epistemic justification only if s is able to conclude, by reflection alone, whether J is or is not realised.

His other reaction to the Davidsonian programme, which accepted a notion of logical form for natural language sentences specified in the complex formulae of predicate logic, was that there is no requirement to map ordinary language onto artificial logical structures, nor does that capture ordinary meaning anyway.

Taken together, the letters from families struggling through the Great Depression create a larger story of a city and a nation struggling to accept a new notion: that without help, they might not survive, no matter how hard they worked.

On the one hand, Lawrence Becker (2005) suggests that even selfish, hard-bargaining contractarians (his "tough crowd") would accept an expansive notion of "reciprocity," one that would ensure adequate provision for people with disabilities in the scheme of social cooperation they adopt.

By October, it was on the brink of collapse, and had to accept a most unpalatable notion: a takeover by Dynegy, a smaller energy-trading rival based down the road in Houston.The biggest crack in the façade came with the release of third-quarter results in mid-October that showed a $1 billion write-off on broadband, water and other bad investments.

"Animal rights makes sense only if you accept a very broad notion of human rights". Francione says that in Brooklyn recently he encountered a youth handing out PETA literature.

But by countenancing jointly financed bank recapitalisation, Mrs Merkel has accepted a broader notion of risk-sharing.

Instead, authorities accepted a romantic notion that client ownership would create grassroots accountability, but this actually created a governance void.

This solution is based on a set of axioms that have become widely accepted, portraying a notion of fairness (cf. [19]).

Now the author reminds herself that on day she will accept an abstract--notion of--a funeral and make no complaints.