Sentence examples for as it posits from inspiring English sources

As it posits itself, so it is; and as it is, so it posits itself".

But some critics worry that promoting sunless tans and glows as healthy, stylish and natural perpetuates the tan — whether cosmetic induced or sun-induced— as a beauty ideal, even as it posits pale skin as unhealthy, dull, unnatural and even passé.

This is problematic insofar as it posits fundamental entanglement relations relating entities that (by the lights of the pluralist) are nonfundamental.

He attacks as inappropriate the analogies with light or the sun, and argues that the theory of the agent and material intellects is incompatible with the simplicity of the soul, as it posits these intellects as two distinct parts of the soul, one active and one receptive.

The I must posit itself in order to be an I at all; but it can posit itself only insofar as it posits itself as limited (and hence divided against itself, inasmuch as it also posits itself as unlimited or "absolute").

The reflexive mode has revealed the methods of moviemaking, even as it posited the makers themselves as elusive demiurges, magicians who showed how their tricks were done even while bewildering and beguiling spectators with the doing of them.

As such, it posits that narrative reliability is a false construct, something we hide behind because it's simpler and escapist.

Although this interpretation of Kuhn paints him as a rationalist, it posits a form of rationalism that rejects two claims that many rationalists had thought essential to their enterprise: (i) that rationality is a rule-governed process, and (ii) that scientific progress is cumulative.

Through the case study of recent work by the art collective Department of Play, it illustrates the rationale for engaging public imagination specifically via play as world-building; and it posits the potential implications and limits of such activity as an intervention into city planning processes.

Traditional gender ideologies have contributed to the double burden because it posits women as caretakers, men as providers, and each gender occupying their own sphere of influence.

Saliently, Caldwell (6: 160) and others have also critiqued Omran's models for failing to recognize 'the global nature and historical sequence of the mortality transition as it spread', positing instead that each society exhibits its own particular model.