Sentence examples for be capable of reflecting from inspiring English sources

In refining and defending this conception, Mele argues that an autonomous agent must be capable of reflecting critically upon her desires, and of altering them in light of this reflection.

For any student to really grasp a text like The Owl and the Pussycat, for example, they must be capable of reflecting on the historical context in which Edward Lear was writing, as well as the meaning of money, marriage, travel and so on.

In his view, a creature must be capable of reflecting upon, thinking about, and hence conceptualizing its own mental states if those mental states are to be states of which the creature is aware (Carruthers 1996, 155, 157).

But regardless of how one answers that question, it is widely accepted that potentially blameworthy agents must be capable of reflecting upon, reasoning about, and executing a decision about how to behave.

The highly reflective and extremely directional screen behind the actors was capable of reflecting light from the projected image one hundred times more efficiently than did the foreground subject.

At the same time, each person is capable of reflecting on his or her own action.

"Rats are capable of reflecting on their internal mental states," Crystal concludes.

The presented elements are capable of reflecting true normal rotation as well as desirable membrane and bending behaviour.

And what our reflected affections take as their objects are the affections of creatures like us who are capable of reflecting on their affections ("Inquiry" 174).

These studies indicate that EMR signal is capable of reflecting the stress (load) state, deformation and fracture strength, and internal stress state of coal rock mass.

Though being capable of reflecting the spatial temporal heterogeneity of precipitation process over basin, TRMM rainfall products have relatively low precipitation accuracy.