Sentence examples for forms of descriptions from inspiring English sources
These characterizations of pragmatism in terms of anti-foundationalism (PMN), of anti-representationalism (ORT), of anti-essentialism (TP) are explicitly parasitic on constructive efforts in epistemology and metaphysics, and are intended to high-light the various ways that these efforts remain under the spell of a Platonic faith in ideal concepts and mandatory forms of descriptions.
Furthermore, although there may be no bedrock language of uncontaminated observation to which they can retreat, they have available to them forms of description that presuppose only shared commonsense ideas about objects in the vicinity.
That there are no inescapable forms of description is a thought which permeates Rorty's work from the 1960s right through his later therapeutic articulations of pragmatism.
Some teleonaturalists seek to reduce teleological language to forms of description and explanation that are found in other parts of science.
In Europe during the 15th to 17th centuries, many treatises on dance were written in the form of descriptions often accompanied by illustrations.
Darden and Maull did not offer a general account of interfield theories, but Bechtel presciently suggested that such theories often take the form of descriptions of mechanisms (Bechtel 1988: 101 102).
These hypotheses often take the form of descriptions of mechanisms, where mechanisms are understood as systems of causally interacting entities that produce certain regularities (Wimsatt 1974; Machamer, Darden and Craver 2000; Glennan 2005; Bechtel 2006; Craver 2007).
Files put on the network are associated with a "key", usually some form of description of the content that is encoded for security reasons.
Although this form of description would require some development and adaptation, it would provide an insight into the aspirations of the proposed designs, something rarely "felt" in the master plans, policies and manifestos written in a mixture of academese and legalese.
(The form of description — whether mental or physical — is thus irrelevant to the fact that a particular causal relation obtains).
