Sentence examples for distinctive claim from inspiring English sources

The use of the word "gospel" refers to the fragment's most distinctive claim that Jesus was married.

Indeed, Clarke's most distinctive claim is that Descartes's account of the mind as an immaterial substance — his famous "dualism" of the mental and the physical, sometimes known as the doctrine of "the ghost in the machine" — is at best a provisional theory, aimed at providing support for the Catholic doctrine of the immortality of the soul, and sits uneasily with many other things that he wrote.

This essay is important as a reference point because it illustrates forcefully the most important and distinctive claim of phenomenology vis-à-vis technology.

In contrast, then, to arguments (such as those offered by many proponents of Nyāya) to the effect that memory presupposes an enduring subject, Kumārila's distinctive claim is that in the always first-personally indexed content of mnemonic experience we really "encounter" the referent of the first-person pronoun.

"Obviously there comes a time in the life in every nation, John F Kennedy and LBJ certainly found themselves at such a moment, when the distinctive claims of certain groups in society have to be recognised for what they are.

It makes a number of related distinctive claims within that approach.

The main article recounts the principal and distinctive claims of Aristotle's psychology, avoiding so far as possible exegetical controversy and critical commentary.

If there are minimal and nonminimal readings of all the distinctive claims that can be used to distinguish cognitivism from non-cognitivism, we may lose are grip on the distinction between the positions (Dreier, 2004b).

But religious communities, like many groups and associations, also make distinctive claims that help provide a sense of meaning and purpose in the lives of their followers.

Further, and more importantly, McDowell's distinctive uncodifiability claim, which rests on this view of rationality, looks to be too general to underwrite a specific thesis like mental anomalism.

John Whittingdale said he hoped Charlotte Moore and BBC director general Tony Hall would take seriously a 242-page government-commissioned report that suggested BBC1 had become less distinctive and claimd that making the corporation's sevices less populist could benefit commercial rivals by more than £100m.