Sentence examples for has a practical function from inspiring English sources
Beyond such philosophical propositions, and beyond the aesthetic interest, the tourbillon's eccentric placement has a practical function.
In this way, he says, art is not isolated but has a practical function in the community.
It once had a practical function as a message to shipping.
The notebooks had a practical function, as records of images published or available for sale.
These bone-fires or bonfires also had a practical function: animals had been slaughtered to provide food for winter, and the fires turned the bones into fertiliser.
Cattle horn is something that grows but it doesn't have a practical function for the animal any more; it's an excess of energy, a plus that we can utilise.
The shorts also had a practical function: for anybody who ever felt sorry for players having to wear pants in the summer, especially in the AstroTurf era, when television cameras routinely picked up waves of heat rising off the plastic, shorts were a refreshing look, even if the Chisox must have picked up a fair share of raspberries.
By contrast, constructivists think that normative concepts, which are deployed in judgments that can be true or false, have a practical function: they name solutions to practical problems, rather than represent features of reality (Korsgaard 2008, 302 ff).
The brain's "shut-down" function has a practical survival function: It means that when we are in danger our brain kicks into alarm mode which can save our life.
Colour has a practical planning function as well as an expressive quality because of the range of its reflection and its absorption of solar rays.
