Sentence examples for canonical statements from inspiring English sources

And, in one of the canonical statements on translation, W. H. Auden, who knew no Greek, found in Cavafy "a tone of voice, a personal speech" that defied every poet's assumption that what essentially distinguished prose and poetry is "that prose can be translated into another tongue but poetry cannot".

Such claims may be more easily reconcilable with certain canonical statements of functionalism (such as Lewis 1980) than with others (such as Putnam 1975).

Here is one of his canonical statements, using human moral virtues as an example (from Chapter 4 of Descent of Man).

There is no one canonical statement of the doctrine but there is a core set of principles that appears, with minor variations, in countless books and articles that discuss the ethics of war in general or the morality of certain wars in particular.

The canonical statement of this notion of legitimate authority is provided by Joseph Raz.

A canonical statement of this is found in Peirce's classic paper 'The Fixation of Belief'.

The canonical statement of the distinction is in Chomsky 1986, Ch. 2 (see also his 1988; 1995; 2000).

A canonical statement of this view was presented by a thinker commonly regarded as having a grimly realistic view of human beings, the 17th Century philosopher Thomas Hobbes.

But the canonical statement and defence of both modal realism and counterpart theory is in On the Plurality of Worlds (1986a), the book that grew out of his 1984 John Locke lectures.

The most succinct and canonical cinematic statement of this myth comes in "Annie Hall," in which Los Angeles is a land of vacuous operators looking for money to turn concepts into ideas and Manhattan is a place where there's always a long line to see "The Sorrow and the Pity," and always a movie house where it's playing.

This speech simply operates as a kind of canonical, authoritative statement.