Sentence examples for accepting something as from inspiring English sources

However, though in general Boyle argues that accepting something as a miracle presupposes God's existence, and so miracles are to be used to institute the correct religion rather than to ground its metaphysical basis, he does sometimes urge an argument from miracles which will yield not merely the correctness of Christianity, but the acceptability of religious belief as such.

If that community accepted something as art, whatever its form, then it was art.

Silicon Valley economists obsess over how the numbers they use are collected, and would not accept something as old-hat as GDP (see article).

Many of these appeared on a blog registered to Mr. Garrido, and dotted with references to governmental mind control and something he called "cultural trance," whereby "large bodies of people have accepted something as truth".

It's one thing to accept something as true, however, and another to show it and analyze it.

When we deny the existence of something, e.g., the existence of extraterrestrial life, we still accept something as true, Frege would say, namely the negative thought that there are no extraterrestrials.

How do you accept something as a fact?

To believe, is to accept something as truth and right now, Santa is your truth.

(Psychologists call this a source monitoring failure: once you accept something as true, it's efficient to remember the information and forget the source).

She calls attention to the composer Charles Hubert H. Parry, whose 1911 essay "The Meaning of Ugliness" asserts that "Every advance in Art has been made by accepting something which has been condemned as ugly by recognized artistic authorities".

With the egotism and political naivety of many artists, he simply could not accept that something as trivial as a world war could interrupt his career.