Sentence examples for common tenets from inspiring English sources

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One of the common tenets of ancient philosophy which was abandoned in the period beginning with Descartes is that a person "could not have access to the truth" without undertaking a process of self-purification that would render him "susceptible to knowing the truth" (Foucault 1997, 278 279).

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"These are common religious tenets," he said.

The immunity of grand jurors, an almost equally venerable common-law tenet, see Floyd v. Barker, supra, also has been adopted in this country.

Dr. Pearce owns 250,042 shares of Tenet common stock, or less than one-tenth of 1percentt of the shares outstanding, and his other nominees own no Tenet shares, the company said.

A basic tenet common to many studies of driver performance is the Yerkes-Dodson Law, a theory developed in the early 20th century that says human operators fail when there is too little to do and when there is too much to do.

A second difficulty is that a 'NHS friendly' model seriously challenges the holistic tenet common to so many complementary therapies.

And like Beauchamp and Childress, Gert does not found the tenets of common morality upon any of the usual moral theories, about which he tends to be fairly dismissive.

The new perception of war as revelation transformed not only the experience and culture of war, but also war politics, the status of the common soldiers, and the tenets of military theory.

"Things are what they are," he was fond of saying, paraphrasing Bishop Joseph Butler, "why should we wish to deceive ourselves?" He regarded the essentially religious belief that we could forgo our freedom now for some future society - Marxism was his particular bugbear - as ludicrous and against all the tenets of common sense.

The cast and crew have probably been in precisely this sort of denial for every picture they have ever worked on - and somehow the movies get made, when every tenet of common sense and financial logic declares that they can't, like the principles of aerodynamics that prove that a bumble-bee can't fly.

Reid does not believe, however, that every feature of ordinary language is indicative of some important tenet of common sense (EIP 1.1, 26 27).

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