Sentence examples for influential definition from inspiring English sources

One influential definition proposed by Norwegian researcher and psychologist Dan Olweus says: A person is bullied when he or she is exposed, repeatedly and over time, to negative actions on the part of one or more other persons, and he or she has difficulty defending himself or herself.

Robert Devaney's influential definition of chaos (1989) was proposed in this fashion.

Dworkin takes up the idea in his influential definition of equality.

According to an influential definition, it is about "bringing people together, helping to build links, identifying gaps and needs, and sharing ideas" (Bielak et al. 2008).

Plato's metaphysical understanding of the forms already lays the ground for Kripke's influential definition of an essence as an invariant property that can be "rigidly designated" across all possible worlds.

The first highly influential definition came from Edward Tylor (1871, 1), who opens his seminal anthropology text with the stipulation that culture is, "that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, law, morals, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society".

Two examples of historically influential definitions of art offered by great philosophers will suffice to illustrate.

However it was not until the 20th century that influential definitions of science have contrasted it against pseudoscience.

We can conclude that the various currently influential definitions of corruption, and the recent attempts to circumscribe corruption by listing paradigmatic offences, have failed.

For treatments of influential definitions of art, inseparable from the complex philosophical systems in which they occur, see, for example, the entries on 18th Century German Aesthetics, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Dewey's Aesthetics.

It is worth remembering that the focus on AI solutions goes back to 1950s; in 1956 John McCarthy offered one of the first and most influential definitions: "The study [of artificial intelligence] is to proceed on the basis of the conjecture that every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it".