Sentence examples for foundational status from inspiring English sources

Which beliefs have this special, foundational status?

Nelson uses Quine's arguments against the independently foundational status of observation statements as the basis for what she calls a feminist empiricism.

Both the foundational status and the inevitability of sexual difference became a key point of contention between sexual difference theorists and the post-structuralist theorists influenced by Foucault and Derrida.

Even though toposes appeared in the 1960's, in the context of algebraic geometry, again from the mind of Grothendieck, it was certainly Lawvere and Tierney's (1972) elementary axiomatization of a topos which gave impetus to its attaining foundational status.

In contrast to earlier methodological formulations within bioethics that gave foundational status to, say, moral principles or intuitions about paradigm cases, reflective equilibrium finds justification through the coherence of all these elements, each of which impinges on all the others in a multi-directional dialectic.

This line of argument warrants our attention because it invokes a value that clearly has the same kind of foundational status that autonomy has in our constitutional moral order.

He distinguished macroscopic coincidences in the field of our sense experience, to which he does accord a privileged and foundational epistemic status, from the microscopic point coincidences that define an ontology of spacetime manifold points.

Consequently, a mixture of the above two approaches can constitute the foundational theory of status discordance.

But the movement understood itself as engaged in a struggle for something more foundational: for citizenship, the status from which freedom and equal rights flowed.

Both philosophers and biologists have contributed to an ongoing foundational discussion of the status of this mode of description in biology.

For Cassirer, these more primitive manifestations of "symbolic meaning" now have an independent status and foundational role that is quite incompatible with both Marburg neo-Kantianism and Kant's original philosophical conception.