Sentence examples for ideological theory from inspiring English sources

But in his cool style Mr. Nagel extends his ideas about consciousness into a sweeping critique of the modern scientific worldview, which he calls a "heroic triumph of ideological theory over common sense".

It also includes an interview with Mr. Grimonprez, a brainy Belgian steeped in French ideological theory, and amusing directions to passengers of Skyjack Air about what to do in case of a skyjacking.

Senator Schumer met with Mr. Sturgell on Tuesday, and said afterward in a statement, "It boggles the mind that F.A.A. would experiment with an untested ideological theory in the country's busiest and most congested airspace".

But in considering the case of Angola and the MPLA's record of brutality, it seems to me that privileging ideological theory over people's lived experiences, which are almost always contradictory, complicated and fuzzy, is far more dangerous.

Certain groups argue that Jiang Zemin ended the CPC's formal commitment to Marxism with the introduction of the ideological theory, the Three Represents.

Such a philosophy runs the risk of becoming an ideology, and I'd spent much of my adult life shying away from abstract ideological theories that served only to obscure the reality of life as it's lived".

The limits on any such realization may prove to be not merely ideological: Critical Theory is also interested in those social facts and circumstances that constrain the realization of the ideal democracy and force us to reconsider its normative content.

Perhaps philosophers would be well advised to focus more on the metaphysical and epistemological questions raised by a theory's ideological commitments and worry less about whether these ideological commitments should be also regarded as introducing a distinctive kind of ontological commitment.

The ideological commitments of a theory are, roughly, those concepts, logical or non-logical, that are expressible within the theory.

In early iterations, Professor Sims says, the theory was "ideological and controversial".

Even Mr. Jiang's heralded ideological departure, called the theory of the three represents, got no scrutiny.