Sentence examples for expound a theory from inspiring English sources

This led him to expound a theory of the Chinese origin of Western knowledge.

Thus, the attitudes of those scholars who, during the 19th and early 20th centuries, wished to expound a theory of architecture that was neither a philosophy of art nor a history of architecture tended to become highly personal, if not idiosyncratic.

This experience has prompted some analysts to expound a theory of Thai exceptionalism, in which somehow the country's fraught politics leave the economy unscathed.

Late in life, Töpffer produced an essay expounding a theory of the doodle, and demonstrating that, to a viewer, even an approximately drawn face seems to possess character.

They were given an extra morning to air their views and expounded a theory of the history of science that Bernal made his credo.

One of the most important works that he published during his lifetime was a verse dialogue on aesthetics, Promethidion (1851), which expounded a theory of the social and moral function of art anticipating that of John Ruskin.

If it all sounds a bit Y2K, the Joke are actually expounding a theory that suggests our technological society is precariously balanced on the cusp of a disastrous loss of the power which drives the modern world.

In his dialogue the Phaedo, Plato expounded a theory of literally innate ideas; humans, for example, have a conception of exact Equality, which, since it could not have been supplied by the senses, must have been acquired by the soul before it was embodied (see also reincarnation).

English historian Geoffrey Elton called this Act an "essential ingredient" of the "Tudor revolution" in that it expounded a theory of national sovereignty.

Like The Federalist Papers, Unger's articles quite explicitly and systematically expound a general social theory in the course of addressing current political issues and events.

Seneca does not write as a philosopher who creates or expounds a philosophical theory from the ground up.