Sentence examples for more primitive notion from inspiring English sources
And if its restaurant-strength, frosty competence was off-putting, I could find myself open to the overtures of a British manufacturer that offered a more primitive notion of unapologetic domesticity in something called not a stove but a cooker.
Thus 'discriminate with respect to colour' is a more primitive notion than is that of colour.
As analysis proceeds, one reaches more primitive notions, and it might be thought that the process must terminate at a stage in which the remaining vocabulary is indefinable because the entities involved are absolutely simple, and hence, cannot be construed as logical constructions built out of anything more primitive.
We shall see in 5.2.1 that it is problematic whether one can treat such a relation as more primitive than the notion of belonging to a subject.
While Salmon is entitled to take this informal approach, in this case more needs to be said about a primitive notion such as 'characteristic', at least indicating the range of its application, because the vagueness renders the account open to counter-examples.
Just as linguists have abandoned the notion of progressive evolution of languages, with some languages ranking as more primitive than others, so historians of writing have come to treat existing orthographies as appropriate to the languages they represent.
Less schooled; more primitive.
"The more primitive the better for me.
The Mahars' first efforts to protect Katie were more primitive.
It's more primitive, in a sense, like keypunches.
Indeed, it is more primitive than the original.
