As we saw, Kant's conception of the mind is functionalist to understand the mind, we must study what it does and can do, its functions and the doctrine that function does not dictate form is at the heart of contemporary functionalism.
Thus, functionalist architectural doctrine places function or utility at the heart of the architectural enterprise, with other aspects of architecture subordinate thereto.
For shock doctrine to function, one has to leave a majority with something to lose.
The doctrine also functions as a measure for judging someone's overall psychological strength and mental health, since Nietzsche believed that the doctrine of eternal recurrence was the hardest world-view to affirm.
But then, retreating somewhat from this bizarre and unwarranted conclusion, Wittgenstein wished to exclude certain functions, particularly functions on propositions or related entities, from the doctrine; these favoured functions he calls 'operators' (5.251).
First Amendment doctrine was mostly a function of ad hoc decision-making as the Court grappled with the issues posed by Communist Party advocacy and association.
A third function of doctrine is polemical: the defense of the faith against misinterpretation and error, within or without a religious tradition.
With its insistence on freedom of conscience and on the sovereignty of the people (souveraineté populaire), the revolutionary doctrine had no other function than to destroy the Ancien Régime (founded on papal authority and monarchy by divine right).
The "intellectual content", according to Ownby, refers to the value of Falun Dafa doctrine in describing the "functioning of the moral and physical universe".
Since his fall from office in May, the armed forces have been thrown on to the defensive.Many Indonesians are now demanding an end to the doctrine of dwifungsi, or dual function, under which the armed forces are responsible for defending the country both from external enemies and from internal threats.
