Sentence examples for appealing to ideas from inspiring English sources

For in veridical perception the principle of intentionality could be preserved without appealing to ideas.

Pauline Hanson has made a career out of ignoring truths about the world we live in and appealing to fictional ideas that foreign culture is responsible for today's violence.

Perhaps Sorensen could accommodate this thought by appealing to his idea that the objective difficulty of an action modifies the contributions of Effort Exerted and Effort Required to the action's moral worth (see his complication A above).

Hume accounts for memory by appealing to an idea that is qualitatively similar to, but less forceful and vivacious than a previous idea.

By appealing to an idea of "aspiration" and by deluding voters about pay distribution, they induce people to vote against their own interests.

Carnap sought to explain these appearances by appealing to the idea that accepting an analytic sentence goes with speaking the language, and to the Principle of Tolerance.

Recently some incompatibilists have responded to the "determined or random" dilemma in a different way: by appealing to the idea of probabilistic causation (Kane 1996).

In order to bring some semblance of manageability to the computation of intrinsic value, this is precisely what some writers, by appealing to the idea of "basic" intrinsic value, have tried to do.

The Garden of Forking Paths argument (van Inwagen 1993, Fischer 1994, Ekstrom 2000) begins by appealing to the idea that whenever we make a choice we are doing (or think we are doing) something like what a traveler does when faced with a choice between different roads.

Of course, Trump is far from the first Republican politician to galvanize voters by appealing to the idea of white identity.

Appealing to the idea that speech acts are 'merely' verbal and not non-verbal, physical actions is not sufficient.