Sentence examples for characterizing the world from inspiring English sources

But the property of "being a witch according to a belief system T" is not a kind of witch, but a kind of content (the content of belief system T):  it's a way of characterizing what belief system T says, not a way of characterizing the world.

And whereas scientists find the techniques of mathematical description very helpful in characterizing the world, they themselves cannot start from assumptions.

A different, but complementary, objection regards the risk that the values and assumptions of RRI can reproduce the dominant structural inequalities characterizing the world stage when this approach is cast against a global perspective (Macnaghten et al. 2014, 195).

There are too many silly errors of fact, and it is frustrating to read a provocative statement characterizing the World Trade Center cleanup without a source citation.

It may do so with utmost honesty and care, but science's products are at best images of real things, and much work has to be done to make the representations look as if they are the right ways of characterizing the world".

To scholars it's known as "the mixed economy", the combination of dynamic free markets, effective government, and a strong labor movement that characterizes the world's most prosperous nations.

They all hope to sign deals, find local partners, sell their wares or just soak up the contradictions that characterize the world's largest democracy, a singular melding of chaos and opportunity.

If we say it is the world of matter, or the world of atoms, we are left behind by modern physics, which characterizes the world in far more abstract terms.

Our waitress responded to my timid questions about the oysters with a pseudopopulist arrogance that implied I was both hopelessly out of touch with the everyday experience of fishermen and boat owners, and too much a rube to comprehend the subtle distinctions of taste and class that characterized the world of the fancy shellfish.

The flood of information through various computer networks such as the internet characterizes the world situation in which we live.

Critical philosophy of history thus refers to the position that characterizes the world we know and in which we act as a product of human activity and mind.