Sentence examples for influential notion from inspiring English sources

He invented the influential notion of the "willing suspension of disbelief".

Mircea Eliade, a Romanian-born scholar who fostered the study of the history of religions at the University of Chicago, constructed another influential notion of the sacred.

Medical discoveries, even mistaken ones, have inspired poets and playwrights since the beginning of the written word, from the influential notion that four "humours" (choleric, melancholic, sanguine, and phlegmatic) determined character, to the more metaphorical use made of medicine by poets such as John Donne.

A contemporary parallel of Kant's conception of autonomy is John Rawls's influential notion of free and rational agents formulating principles of justice in the "original position" (Rawls 1971).

The influential 'reserve' notion holds that individual differences in brain characteristics or in the manner people process tasks allow some individuals to cope better than others with brain pathology and hence show preserved memory performance.

In Chile he co-wrote a book that became a bible of dependency theory, the hugely influential but mistaken notion that Latin America's underdevelopment was a product of its subordinate status in the world economy.

This position was largely a reflection of deism the notion, influential in England from the late 17th century until the early 1800s, that God had created the "laws" which ran the universe, but having done so did not intervene any further in the workings thereof.

They picture philanthropists shackled by timid taste and psychological need, influential citizens whose notions of cultural uplift revealed anxious disapproval of restless immigrant masses.

And Wittgenstein's (1953) influential criticisms of the notion of understanding as an 'inner process,' and of the idea of a language for private sensation divorced from public criteria, could be interpreted in ways that sever (phenomenal) consciousness from intentionality.

In the inhibition of return (IOR) literature, an influential theory related the notion of IOR with foraging in visual search [33], [34], implying that attention moves from item to item, and that IOR reduces the probability of returning to a previously inspected location.

He has also produced compilations of essays originally published in The New York Times and elsewhere on all manner of musical subjects, and his writings on early music in particular have been influential, showing that current notions of historically "authentic" performance owe as much to modernist impulses and predilections as they do to any firm understanding of ancient practice.