Sentence examples for classical accounts from inspiring English sources

The ways medieval writers praise Giotto echo classical accounts of the extreme naturalism of ancient artists.

In Incidental Archaeologists, Bonnie Effros examines the archaeological contributions of nineteenth-century French military officers, who, raised on classical accounts of warfare and often trained as cartographers, developed an interest in the Roman remains they encountered when commissioned in the colony of Algeria.

In this sense, the classical accounts of "epistemological" reduction are ontological, or at least include an ontological element.

Another way of developing a more adequate account of impossible fictions is to stay classical but supplement the theory of Lewis 1979 with impossible worlds (classical accounts of impossible worlds include Nolan 1997b and Zalta 1997, among others).

Classical accounts of this state depict individual humans as frustrated in their most basic needs and desires, and as incapable of the refinement needed to develop their distinctive faculties and exercise their freedom.

This is a problem because it is not at all evident how epistemic justification should be understood, and classical accounts of that notion have turned out to be severely problematic.

Between the Finnish symphonies, Frank Peter Zimmermann gave a beautifully poised, neatly dexterous and classical account of Barber's Violin Concerto.

The book, a prose translation of Lucretius' two-thousand-year-old poem "On the Nature of Things" ("De Rerum Natura"), was marked down to ten cents, and I bought it as much for the cover as for the classical account of the material universe.

January 9, 1886 Lincoln, Nebraska April 23 , 1959Seattle, Washington Edwin Ray Guthrie, (born January 9, 1886, Lincoln, Neb., U.S. died April 23 , 1959 Seattle, Wash . American psychologist who played a major role in the development of the contiguity theory of learning, a classical account of how learning takes place.

The classical account of the analog-digital distinction is found in Nelson Goodman's Languages of Art (1976).

On the classical account, information is represented by strings of symbols, just as we represent data in computer memory or on pieces of paper.