Sentence examples for contingent experience from inspiring English sources

"Hiroshima Mon Amour," "The Misfits," and "La Vérité" failed the first test by moralizing and pathologizing what happened onscreen; certain clued-in viewers were supposed to feel virtuous for watching those films, she thought, which was a contrived and contingent experience.

Leibniz argues that rationality must involve more than induction from contingent experience.

This form of "looking backward" from the realm of contingent experience to a philosophical set of entities that necessarily existed, whether Materialistic or Idealistic, was contrasted by James with the pragmatic approach which looked to future experience.

Conceiving of tension as a diagnostic category, rather than an experience encompassing both a biological reality and a culturally contingent experience, reduces its meaning significantly [ 32].

These idols are due to the preconditioned system of every individual, comprising education, custom, or accidental or contingent experiences.

Instead, men and women drew on a variety of often local and contingent experiences in concluding that they had an increased, shared capacity to improve the lives of their children.

"Original" means that it is not contingent on experience, while "always" refers to the mirror's ceaseless activity of mirroring.

These dialectical presumptions include the attempt to infer from the contingent (within experience) to some cause lying outside the world of sense altogether, an effort involving a transcendental misapplication of the categories.

Thus, as not all infants in the Contingent condition experienced a strong contingency between performed and observed stepping actions, averaging the activation of infants who experienced relatively weak and relatively strong visuomotor contingency may have lowered the overall activation in this condition.

To investigate the effects of motor and contingent visuomotor experience, we carried out two types of analyses: group analyses comparing sensorimotor alpha suppression in the three experimental conditions, and regression analyses investigating the relationship between motor experience and the strength of the visuomotor contingency experienced during training and sensorimotor alpha suppression.

The results suggest that children's learning from a screen can be improved by contingent, interactive experiences with media.