Joachim formulated a view of successive past and future persecutions of the Christian church that inspired him to propose the appearance of a succession of "antichrists" (e.g., Nero, Muhammad, and Saladin) before the arrival of the great Antichrist.
In the process he formulated a view of creativity as a system comprising (1) the creative individual, (2) the domain (the class of knowledge or activity that makes up a culture or any area of specialization, such as figure skating, chess, or singing), and (3) the particular field of practice.
Graham proposed looking at the text's seemingly conflicting thoughts as analogous to the "inner dialogue" of a reflective thinker who formulates a view, considers then rejects it.
He formulates a view according to which (to put matters roughly) to say that a state of affairs is intrinsically good or bad is to say that it is possible that its goodness or badness constitutes all the goodness or badness that there is in the world (Chisholm 1978).
Formulating a view on the relative merits of aromatase inhibitors (AIs) and tamoxifen requires an examination of the available evidence regarding four major issues – efficacy, toxicity, tolerability/quality of life and cost.
"The reason we haven't got to a position in parliament of being able to formulate a clear view," she said, "is because of the way that the prime minister has handled this whole negotiation.
Government, whether Labour or Conservative, needs to formulate a clear view on which industries are considered strategic.
Gould (1989 p. 283) formulated a similar view on historical explanations in his book Wonderful Life.
Thus Poincaré formulates a new view of geometric theories, that geometry does not express true or false propositions and that there are no special objects which geometry studies.
Second, it aims to identify some of the main theoretical options that natural law theorists face in formulating a precise view within the constraints set by these defining features and some of the difficulties for each of these options.
