Sentence examples for held doctrines from inspiring English sources

He strives for a synthesis of the skeptical interpretation of Plato, defended by the Academic skeptics Arcesilaus, Carneades and Philo, with that of Antiochus' dogmatic interpretation, according to which Plato held doctrines of his own.

Even worse, people would have to rethink long held doctrines and beliefs.

Deletion and insertion statistics both depend heavily on physical coverage, but otherwise differ dramatically, refuting a commonly held doctrine of symmetry.

In contrast, some theologians have held that doctrines including the Trinity imply not merely apparent but also real contradictions, but are nonetheless true (Rehnman 2008).

The doctrine was not newly taken up by Peirce late in the nineteenth century; indeed, he had held the doctrine for some time, and it had been the doctrine of his father Benjamin.

In the field of the philosophy of history, Collingwood famously held the doctrine of 'Re-enactment': since the subject is human beings in action, the historian cannot achieve understanding by describing what happened from an external point of view, but must elicit in the reader's own mind the thoughts that were taking place in the principal actors involved in historical events.

In a word, Aristotle is famous for having held a "doctrine of categories".

Critics have held this doctrine to be "impossible, self-contradictory, incoherent, absurd, and even unintelligible".

These philosophers are physicalists, or at least are usually classified that way, i.e., since they held the doctrine traditionally called 'materialism'materialism

Federal courts have held this "Doctrine of Espousal" to effectively supersede the Fifth Amendment prohibition against the taking of private property without due process of law or just compensation, and to be binding upon the claimants, being the sole remedy for the claimant even when the amount obtained is a fraction of the certified value.

Two questions are involved: whether the Sophists held common intellectual doctrines and whether some or all of these could actually be termed philosophical.