Sentence examples for alien external from inspiring English sources

Feuerbach criticized Leibniz, however, for not having derived the unity or harmony of the monads from the nature of the monads themselves, and for appealing instead to a theological representation of God as an alien, external power who achieves this harmonization miraculously, and hence, inexplicably.

In our study, item 58 coded for bodily experiences of alien (external) control.

To illustrate, voice-hearers often acknowledge that their voices do not fulfil all the "4 A's" that characterise real voices [i.e., alien (external agent), acoustic, autonomous (cannot be controlled), authentic; Moritz & Laroi, 2008].

Is it not the task of the novelist to convey this varying, this unknown and uncircumscribed spirit, whatever aberration or complexity it may display, with as little mixture of the alien and external as possible?

But Fichte's solution still suffers from an inadequacy in that he conceives of the constitutive activity still as the act of an individual subject confronted with an external, alien reality (1923a: 124).

"Alien, brown-skinned external enemy zealots seek to destroy us because they hate our freedoms, and through torture and a militaristic response, we can stop them and preserve our way of life".

Each sample was normalized for cDNA conversion efficiency using the external "alien control".

Instead of over-evaluations of and reactions to indifferent, alien features of the external world, eupatheia are cognitively appropriate (and active) judgments directed at the things that are truly important to the good life, particularly at other rational beings.

....But it strikes me that...surrender of the notion of the real external world, alien as it seems to everyday thinking, is absolutely essential.

But a more careful consideration ...[leads to the conclusion] that surrender of the notion of the real external world, alien as it seems to everyday thinking, is absolutely essential".

"From previous projects, I've become invested in this idea that technology is simply people it's external and alien to what we conventionally view as human, but it is a distinctly human product and we invest so much of ourselves into its production and use," Stearns explains.