Sentence examples for generic notions from inspiring English sources

Though the Stoics, philosophers of ancient Greece, had recognized only 4 "most generic" notions, Aristotle's 10 categories were treated throughout the Middle Ages as though they were definitive.

We're sold generic notions about Bonaparte – a classic romantic antihero exiled from love, a gambler – but nothing that truly hits bottom in this treatment.

It doesn't much matter, because she's not interested in the specifics of child development, nor in how children may actually think while they are children, but rather in generic notions of childhood and nature: those that conform to a prelapsarian vision of what she calls the "childscape".

I was 41…" That means he's eight years younger than I am, which may explain why his interpretations of facial hair tend toward generic notions of it as "a symbol of youthful rebellion," "the perfect retro-sportsman accessory," "freedom, the open road, 'Easy Rider,' " and other "rogue connotations".

This is not to say that they could be reidentified under the purely generic notions body or physical thing, if there were no continuity of manifest properties.

Drawing on Michel Callon's generic notion of performativity, we show how accounting shapes the strategic options and the external economic conditions of the corporation.

In contrast, in this work, we utilize Bayesian inference and derive a robustified objective function for a fuzzy possibilistic clustering algorithm by assuming a generic datum model and a generic notion of cluster homogeneity.

Nonetheless, the film's allusions to American politics are light enough that its generic notion of revolution can draw in viewers anywhere, can be yoked to any outrage in destruction and fear in hiding, or, for that matter, to any resentment of authority whatsoever: President Snow may be, simply, the Man, and Katniss the icon of youth in revolt.

Trump "has credited several of his 'superior' traits to his genes or some generic notion of heredity, a pattern I find interesting," Clarkin says.

So this feature still remains a generic notion of brightness and cannot be transformed into a real metric for quantifying this dimension.

A constitutive factor of the emergence of a medieval theory of signs within the context of grammar and logic is the resumption of Augustine's practice of embedding the concept of language into the generic notion of sign.