Sentence examples for known doctrine from inspiring English sources

The final objection begins by drawing attention to a little known doctrine about truth that G.E. Moore held at the beginning of the century.

Averroes' best known philosophical doctrine holds that there is only one intellect for all human beings.

It's possible that a small spark from artillery and rocket exchanges across that border might -- given the known military doctrines of the two nuclear-armed neighbors -- lead inexorably to an all-out nuclear conflagration.

General Powell was scarcely asked about when and how he would apply his military doctrine -- known as the Powell doctrine -- that calls for a clear definition of goals and overwhelming force to accomplish them.

This is not a winning strategy for Mr. Romney, whose handlers should be aware that Christian fundamentalists and evangelicals know Mormon doctrine better than most other Americans do — if only because they study Mormonism in order to rebut its claims.

Legal certainty and the orderly development of legal principles are promoted by the application of the doctrine of stare decisis, also known as the doctrine of binding precedent.

This idealistic doctrine, known misleadingly as realism, pervades all Plato's philosophy: its opposite doctrine, nominalism, declares that only particular and observed "named" data are accessible to the mind.

Otherwise, the doctrine invoked to end one horror will become known as the doctrine that gave birth to so many others.

Ricardo's law, known as the doctrine of comparative advantage, became the fountainhead of 19th-century free trade doctrine.

This doctrine, known as "mutual assured destruction," was given the appropriate acronym MAD.

In a later work, Word and Object (1960), Quine developed a doctrine known as "naturalized epistemology".