Sentence examples for have often understood from inspiring English sources

Human conduct, insofar as it is rational, is generally explained with reference to ends or goals pursued or alleged to be pursued, and humans have often understood the behaviour of other things in nature on the basis of that analogy, either as of themselves pursuing ends or goals or as designed to fulfill a purpose devised by a mind that transcends nature.

It is a case in which what was said between two groups who have often not understood each other — the police and young black men (although, in this instance, two of the police are young black men) — is crucial.

In the philosophical debate, cp-laws have often been understood in the different exclusive sense.

Following their introduction of "disorganized/disoriented attachment," Main and Solomon have often been understood as assuming that their new classification (a) represents heterogeneous chaos without logic or meaningful internal differentiation, and (b) completes a four-part and exhaustive typology of infant relationships, when added to the three Ainsworth infant attachment patterns.

Marxists have often tried to understand democratization as a political accompaniment to the establishment of a capitalist economy; democracy might even fulfill certain functions for capital for example, by creating legitimacy for a certain social order or by removing certain aspects of social life from the political sphere and renaming them as private.

It may sound obvious but, in one important respect, it radically changes how morality has often been understood.

Language about a spiritual race or class of humans saved by revelation has often been understood to imply a characteristic gnostic determinism, yet this has proven to be another questionable stereotype.

It is now well accepted that physical discipline is not only less effective than other non-coercive methods, it is more harmful than has often been understood — and not just to children.

"Straw Dogs" has often been understood as an exposé of David's hypocrisy, a revelation of the beast that lurks in the heart of even the most civilized and passive modern man.

German artist Sigmar Polke's work has often been understood in terms of alchemy; the curators of a vast retrospective coming to Tate Modern next month from New York's Museum of Modern Art take the reverse view.

Much of this controversy exists only because the strict rules for causation (as opposed to correlation) have not often been applied to the understanding of acid base balance, and methods that are useful clinically have often been used to understand physiology without being subjected to appropriate scientific rigor.