Sentence examples for confusing notion from inspiring English sources

This was a confusing notion at the time.

Your well-being concerns how well your life goes for you, and we can allow that my well-being depends on yours without introducing the confusing notion that my well-being is constituted by yours.

She has a confused notion of something that she calls "capitalism," and which is somehow held uniquely responsible for the oppression of animals, including dogs.

This year, if it hasn't involved tongues, twerks and a confused notion of female empowerment, it hasn't cut the award-show mustard.

Epicureans had a slippery, perhaps confused notion of gods who were composed of a different, thinner type of matter from all other entities in the universe, and lived "between the worlds", affecting nothing but dreams and the imagination.

In boxing, professionalism is a confused notion.

The notion of an external reason is, basically, a confused notion.

Moral duties concern one's treatment of others, and so a moral duty to oneself is a confused notion.

One way of making the separateness of these two distinctions especially vivid is to note that someone might embrace the former distinction and admit that there are both kinds of reasons, but reject the very notion of a "reason for something to happen" as resting on an obscure, confused notion of a reason that can float free of all possible agents.

It is easy to confuse the notion of an essential property a property that a thing that could not lack with the notion of a property that a thing could not lose, so it is worth taking a minute to reflect on the difference.

Many people confuse the notion of a lesbian icon with a women in the public eye who some women fancy.