Sentence examples for everyday concept from inspiring English sources

For most people in the US, Wall Street is not an everyday concept.

As an analysis of the everyday concept of a right, Mill's assertion would be weak.

This biological notion of altruism is not identical to the everyday concept.

To emphasize the point, consider the everyday concept of a soul, understood something that is present in conscious beings and survives death.

Gilbert proposes that "our everyday concept of a social convention is that of a jointly accepted principle of action, a group fiat with respect to how one is to act in certain situations" (p. 377).

Taking their point of departure from what science tells us about the world rather than from our everyday concept of a 'process', philosophers interested in analysing causal processes have tended to see the chief task to be to distinguish causal processes such as atoms decaying and billiard balls moving across the table from pseudo processes such as moving shadows and spots of light.

High and low levels of feeding motivation are the objective counterparts of the everyday concepts of hunger and satiety.

But the words commonly used here and in nearby quilombos for such everyday concepts as house, spoon, straw and grandparents are derived from West African languages like Yoruba.

What is required in philosophy is a certain capacity for thinking about everyday concepts in abstraction from their everyday context, an ability distinct from the mathematical skill essential for being a good physicist.

The classical concepts are merely a refinement of everyday concepts of position and action in space and time.

Research design consisted of two independent parallel series of studies with different psychodiagnostic tools, participants and research objectives (everyday concepts "Soil" and "Illness" and scientific concept "Substance").