Sentence examples for former notions from inspiring English sources

For example, one might think that at least one of the former two notions is more fundamental that the latter notion, or that the latter notion is misguided in some way that at least one of the former notions isn't.

Luckily, disproving the former notion was relatively easy; disproving the latter took rather longer.

The former notion is because a starlet who goes to the Oscars or Baftas invariably wants pictures of herself at the event to be printed and circulated in magazines for all time, and without her ever looking dated in her garments.

Under the former notion, the scaffolding is plainly different.

It is the former notion with which FA analysis is primarily concerned.

They have the notion of a meaningful utterance before generating the notion of a meaningful thought, modeled on the former notion.

For the former notion, researchers have argued that two-tier items involve related but distinct traits: for the first tier, knowing the correct answer; for the second tier, reasoning using this knowledge (Johnson and Tymms 2011; Treagust 1988).

The difference between Increment and Repetition lies in that the former notion emphasizes the quantity of the object whereas the latter says nothing or does not care about the quantity of the object.

The first is Michael Behe's (2006) "irreducible complexity," a concept not original to him, and the second is William Dembski's (1998) "complex specified information," essentially an attempt to attach probabilities to the former notion.

Though semantic transparency and intrinsic intentionality have some affinities, they should not be simply equated, since it may be possible to accommodate the former notion within a more externalist account of content and meaning.

He seeks to undermine the former notion by pointing out that confrontations between cultures with strongly held opinions which are each believed by members of the cultures in question to be objectively true can turn out in different ways.