Sentence examples for constructive account from inspiring English sources

But what's it got to do with acting?" Opportunity knocked when he landed a role in Family Affairs, where he met Anna Acton, now his girlfriend and partner in a new venture devised to turn the actors' lot to constructive account.

Having cleared the way for his constructive account, Hume is ready to do just that.

As well as treating the pragmatist maxim as part of a constructive account of the norms that govern inquiry, Peirce, like James, gave it a negative role.

Hume calls his constructive account of causal inference a "sceptical solution" to the "sceptical doubts" he raised in the critical phase of his argument.

He brings to any issue in philosophy not a constructive account, but an approach, a set of convictions, something akin to ethical principles.

The "top-down" approach to Leibowitz's theology taken so far places extreme limits on what one can say or know about God but does not yield a constructive account of the nature of Jewish faith.

There are, in addition, other philosophical accounts of religion that view it as non-cognitive and then move in directions influenced by Kant's more constructive accounts of religion that reference the validity and significance of religious concepts to symbolic or aesthetic meaning.

A fair portion of the constructive empiricist's account of scientific explanation is thus devoted to an explication of the contextual dependence of explanation.

One reason the constructive empiricist's account of acceptance is important is that it allows us to make sense of scientific anti-realists such as constructive empiricists (of the scientific agnostic variety) talking as if a particular theory is true.

The constructive empiricist can account for this behavior, without attributing full belief in the theory to the scientists, by describing the scientists as merely accepting, without fully believing, the theories they develop (van Fraassen 1980, 81 82).

Insofar as the empirical adequacy of a theory amounts to the embeddability of observable phenomena within substructures of the theory's models, the constructive empiricist's account of empirical adequacy rests heavily on the distinction between what is observable and what is not.