As Moore saw things, to make a moral claim is to express a distinctive belief (that might be true or false) about how things are.
With these advancements, and guided by the distinctive belief in education as a process of "ennobling and enabling" young women and men to build whole and meaningful lives, Yeshiva has emerged as North America's Torah-informed university.
Alexander [19] argued that religions are cultural inventions which function to extend nations, suggesting that the unit of a 'nation' is an emergent property of unifying and distinctive belief systems.
They function to define the distinctive beliefs of opposing or uniting groups within a given religion or to formulate doctrines appropriate to new circumstances, and are chiefly a Christian phenomenon during the period from the Reformation to the present.
"Part of the struggle is that Mormons have very distinctive beliefs and behaviors — avoiding alcohol and coffee, the high level of church participation and a theology that puts us on the outs with some of mainstream Christianity," said Quin Monson, an associate professor of political science at the university.
At worst, questioning one's own assumptions might be understood as caving to modernism itself, which in its pursuit of progress seeks utopian ideals that are counter to the certainties of one's own fundamentalist distinctive beliefs, which are reified, or thingified, as part of the natural order.
That we take whole architectural objects to be (or to be represented as) systems or system-like suggests how architectural beliefs are distinctive among beliefs about artworks.
Sinic culture seeped deeply into society, but it shaped the aristocracy and mandarinal families more than it did the peasantry, which preserved distinctive customs, beliefs, vocabulary, lifeways, and gender relations.
He also started to write about distinctive Bahá'í beliefs and practices.
Andy Egan (2001) explains similar phenomena in terms of what he calls 'bimagination', a mental state that has some of the distinctive features of belief and some of imagination: bimagination is both action-guiding (and hence belief-like) and inferentially highly circumscribed (and hence imagination-like).
Of all of his management notions, perhaps the most distinctive is his belief that harmony is often overvalued in the workplace — that it can stifle honest critique and encourage polite praise for flawed ideas.
