Sentence examples for functionalist assumption from inspiring English sources

Jahoda's theory was criticized for its functionalist assumption.

Spinoza likewise disputes Malebranche's functionalist assumption that the communication of the passions tends to promote civil society.

Gerald Weber, an Oliver Sacks-like neurologist from New York who arrives to examine Mark, stands for the flexible middle position, in which neurology and literature can coexist: "The rapid convergence of neuroscience around certain functionalist assumptions was beginning to alienate Weber".

For one thing, it is unclear what exactly grounds the monism of functionalism in Anomalous Monism, the monism is derived in an a priori fashion from Davidson's three principles, but it often seems to be simply an assumption within the functionalist framework (Fodor 1974, but again, see Lewis 1966).

Functionalists, by contrast, do not make such an assumption.

There are many different formalist and functionalist frameworks that propose theories for describing syntactic structures, based on different assumptions about what language is and how it should be described.

In Britain in particular social anthropologists came to regard themselves as comparative sociologists, but the assumption persisted that anthropologists were primarily concerned with "primitive" peoples, and in practice evolutionary ways of thinking may often be discerned below the surface of functionalist argument that represents itself as ahistorical.

He called himself a "functionalist tempered by frivolity".

Functionalist simplicity was combined with sculpturally expressive form.

Politics is its own functionalist faith, a powerfully coercive one.

Theoretically, the dichotomy was resolved by Modernism's functionalist aesthetic.