Sentence examples for familiar understanding from inspiring English sources

Our best hopes of progress, however, remain deceptively familiar: understanding ourselves better; asking what aims may serve not only our survival, but also our thriving; and striving to build systems that serve rather than subvert these.

This can be understood as the familiar understanding of substance as a primary existent noted above.

With appropriate support, students can provide sufficient explanations of carbon-transforming processes, but they are also likely to revert back to their everyday or familiar understanding of a concept and disregard the new information (Howe, 1996).

And between countless phone interviews with old heads like Mala and young guns like Jacques Greene for The Pittsburgh City Paper, Pittsburgh's local alt-weekly, backstage and after party access gleaned from covering shows for Resident Advisor and festivals like Detroit's Movement, I've gotten an all-too-familiar understanding of the old "sexism in DJ culture" debate.

The most familiar such understandings are instrumentalist understandings that view claims about reasons for action as claims about what would conduce to the satisfaction of an agent's desires and preferences.

"We're familiar with understanding cities through maps and skylines," says Rhys-Taylor.

Cultural conditions thus seem closer to our experience and to our familiar self-understanding than do the electrochemical workings of our brain, much less our dependence on quantum-mechanical states of physical systems to which we may belong.

Sources of isolation and loneliness included social isolation experienced as a solitary carer without meaningful family and social relationships; loss of familiar cultural understandings and family values; and emotional isolators expressed in response to the physical and emotional role commitment and other constraints.

Creative acts do build on prior social and over-time understandings; people less familiar with common understandings are limited in their potential to make productive use of them.

But Barthes's tone was unique: a detached theoretical rigor that came out in aphorisms, the best of which made it seem as if you were understanding familiar things (the luxuriousness of foam, the significance of a monk's haircut) for the very first time.

Perhaps the most familiar way of understanding control in the responsibility literature is in terms of a psychological mechanism that would allow an agent to act differently than she otherwise would act when there is sufficient reason to do so (Fischer & Ravizza 2000).