Sentence examples for by positing some fixed from inspiring English sources

Religion, writes Scheler, tends to conceal this openness by positing some fixed or secure notion of God (GW IX, 69).

Aristotle opens the first book of the Nicomachean Ethics by positing some one supreme good as the aim of human actions, investigations, and crafts (1094a).

It turns out that for some physical processes, the only way to get empirically adequate conservation principles is by positing that some hidden particles have gone undetected.

An empiricist seeks to explain these facts by positing a stable internal psychological state something like an internal reference-fixing template that guides your verdicts no matter what the actual world turns out to be like.

An empiricist explains this common knowledge by positing implicit conventions that require everyone to associate the very same reference-fixing template with a given word (Jackson 1998b; Lewis 1969).

We first generalized this observation by positing that overexpression or ectopic expression of certain genes greatly reduces some detrimental drug effects on the growth of particular cancer cell lines.

In the 1990s some creationists advocated the teaching of a doctrine known as "intelligent design," according to which the diversity and complexity of living things is impossible to explain except by positing the existence of an intelligent creator.

"Hard" Brexit posits some EU relationship along Canadian lines.

It also posits that genetic effects fixed by selection will, at first, be large and then be reduced in a geometric sequence as a population nears optimal fitness.

The "single point of entry" approach to financial institution bankruptcy posits that fixing the holding company's balance sheet — by canceling debt, and thus rebalancing the balance sheet — would stabilize the entire corporate group.

Some are fixed point, some floating.