Sentence examples for distinctive account from inspiring English sources

As such, Ockham does not attack haecceities, though in so far as Scotus's account of haecceities requires both his distinctive account of the divisibility of a nature, and the formal distinction between nature and haecceity, Ockham's attacks will harm Scotus's haecceities too.

Mr. Orth also gave a distinctive account of the Beethoven.

These criticisms notwithstanding, Hedgehogs is to be credited for inviting liberal egalitarians to develop a distinctive account of ethical and moral responsibility that is responsive to contemporary conservative claims that liberals do not take responsibility seriously.

First, it concentrates on the School's distinctive account of human becoming.

Constructivists have not offered a distinctive account of the meaning and logical behavior of moral and normative terms and concepts.

This picture informs his distinctive account of society and history, moreover, according to which unintended consequences tend to be more important than intended ones and the course of history is correspondingly unknowable in advance.

She was looking for "distinctive accounts of survival and resilience that illustrate refugees' predicaments" when she saw a report of Zamel's story.

3. ALPHA AND OMEGA -- Sony Classical's reissue of the pianist Glenn Gould's two recordings of Bach's "Goldberg Variationss offers an astonishing artist in distinctive accounts of his signature work at the beginning and end of his career (1955 and 1981).

Locke offers distinctive accounts of action and forbearance, of will and willing, of voluntary (as opposed to involuntary) actions and forbearances, and of freedom (as opposed to necessity).

Of course, the notion of cost existed prior to the development of distinctive accounting technologies (such as standard, batch, and process costing systems) to find out what costs 'really' were.

Intelligent Virtue presents a distinctive new account of virtue and happiness as central ethical ideas.