Sentence examples for important notions from inspiring English sources

The vocabulary to describe some of the most important notions is misleading.

Like so many politically important notions, the concept of "state dependence" purports to do no more than describe the way things are, but contains within it a powerful and suspect moral judgment.

But this question actually allows philosophers to zero in on important notions like moral responsibility, to tease apart the way killing someone may differ from allowing someone to die, and to understand how harm that is intended may differ from harm that was foreseen but unintended.

First recall some important notions and results.

Nonsquareness are important notions in geometry of Banach space.

In their moral theories, the ancient philosophers depended on several important notions.

The important notion of a category was introduced by Samuel Eilenberg and Saunders Mac Lane at the end of World War II.

But it does tell us that our concept of psychological privacy and one centrally important notion of personhood — that of an autonomous person — are deeply linked.

For example, the notion of searching and finding, so important in Eleusis, became an important notion in Plato's philosophy: the philosopher should never cease or relax in his quest for truth.

"What struck me when I arrived here 25 years ago," he added, "was how we have this unfashionable but critically important notion that the faculty should specify some of what everyone should know.

It is an Egyptian theurgy, of an extreme Neoplatonist," etc., etc. Calasso traces the important notion of decadence plausibly enough, although with an acute accent on the first "e," to make it more French.