Sentence examples for influential tradition from inspiring English sources

An influential tradition in engineering literature has claimed that a finite number of evolutionary trends can be identified on the basis of a massive analysis of past technologies, as documented in patents.

In the case of the theory of correctness conditions for judgement and belief the argument that knowledge is of facts together with the view that, contrary to a long and influential tradition, the theory of belief and of judgement presupposes a theory of knowledge (Williamson 2000) may persuade us that facts make judgements and beliefs correct.

In the writings of the Italian Renaissance philosophers, the 15th and 16th century humanists John Colet, Erasmus of Rotterdam, and Thomas More, the 17th century Cambridge Platonists, and German idealists, especially Hegel, Plotinus' thought was the (sometimes unacknowledged) basis for opposition to the competing and increasingly influential tradition of scientific philosophy.

Uses and Gratifications (U&G) theory due to Blumler & Katz (1974) [ 11] is fast becoming an influential tradition in media research because it focuses on why people use the media rather than on the content of the media.

Slave narratives comprise one of the most influential traditions in American literature, shaping the form and themes of some of the most celebrated and controversial writing, both in fiction and in autobiography, in the history of the United States.

For other less influential traditions, see Bull and Segerberg (1984, 16).

But there is an influential philosophical tradition that denies this assumption and instead holds that all kinds of quantifiers incur ontological commitments, not just singular first-order ones.[14] The most famous exponent of this tradition is Frege, who claims that second-order quantifiers are committed to concepts, just as singular first-order quantifiers are committed to objects.

The British tradition, influential in most Commonwealth countries and former colonial territories, has emphasized the provision of noncredit courses of "liberal" studies.

To no small degree of dissatisfaction among the fashion press, Ms. Clinton's gown was not destined to be hugely influential in the tradition of bridal gowns worn by glamorous members of prominent political or royal families (i.e., Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, Bessette-Kennedy, Princess Diana, Ivanka Trump

But Mazumdar-Shaw has become wealthy — and extremely influential — by sidestepping Indian tradition.

The Husserl scholar Jan Patocka, a prominent expert in phenomenology as well as in the metaphysical tradition, was influential in the former Czechoslovakia; in Poland, Roman Ingarden represented the cause of phenomenology; and there were also important representatives in such countries as Portugal, the United Kingdom, South America, Japan, and India.