Sentence examples for complexes of ideas from inspiring English sources

Fragmentary evidence found exclusively in folklore indicates only two complexes of ideas with any certainty: the first concerns the structure of the world, the second the enmity between Saule ("Sun") and Mēness (Latvian; Lithuanian Mėnulis; "Moon").

Within this complex of ideas, other themes are interwoven.

In "Reading in the Brain," he adopts the rhetoric of innateness, a complex of ideas developed by Noam Chomsky 50 years ago and popularized by evolutionary psychologists like Steven Pinker.

Yet, because of the highly original nature of Kepler's discoveries, it requires an act of intellectual empathy for moderns to understand how such lasting results could have evolved from such an apparently unlikely complex of ideas.

But a sense of decency is also at play in the decision against showing such images a whole complex of ideas about good taste and sensationalism, and the impulse neither to overstimulate nor inure viewers with the horror of graphic violence.

The first theoretician of the Vienna school of ethnology, Fritz Graebner, attempted to explain the forms of both individual totemism and group totemism and designated them as a moderately creedal or semireligious complex of ideas according to which individual members or subgroups of a society are thought to be in an especially close (but not cultic) relationship to natural objects.

But a sense of decency is also at play in the decision against showing such images — a whole complex of ideas about good taste and sensationalism, and the impulse neither to overstimulate nor inure viewers with the horror of graphic violence.

Capitalism is a complex of ideas and practices in tension with each other.

What the general word signifies is the complex of ideas we have decided are parts of the idea of that sort of thing.

Modern frequentism arose as a complex of ideas in the nineteenth century, perhaps evolving only in the twentieth century into a full-fledged conception of probability (Gillies 2000, 88 113).

Dawkins's meme refers to any cultural entity that an observer might consider a replicator of a certain idea or complex of ideas.