Sentence examples for merely receptive from inspiring English sources
Froebel's methods, based on Johann Pestalozzi's ideas, were rooted in the premise that man is essentially active and creative rather than merely receptive.
In a similar way, Schlegel affirms that our encounters with the world are always poetical, in the sense that they cannot be merely receptive, but also creative.
What may have provoked Valla's anger about the traditional picture is the seemingly passive role allotted to the soul in perception and knowledge: it seems to come only at the very end of a long chain of transmission, which starts with outer objects and concludes with a merely receptive tabula rasa.
(Fechner 1946, 144) While to extend such a model beyond the merely receptive to the active aspects of personhood, we might think of the way in which the agency of an organisation is exercised through the agency of its individual members.
But not everyone was receptive.
"But Mike was always receptive.
Many of the interviews were downright enlightening and honest (hats off to the author for locating receptive interviewees), while others were merely useful.
But students themselves are becoming receptive.
"But people here have been very receptive.
His books seem not merely to please but to cast a spell over readers who are receptive to them, which tends to dull their critical faculties; whereas others remain mysteriously unmoved and ask what all the fuss is about.
