Sentence examples for notion of ability from inspiring English sources

Consider for a moment how much our culture emphasizes this immutable notion of ability and personal qualities– from the personality tests in magazines that promise to tell you who you really are, to IQ tests on the internet that can quantify your intelligence, to the reliance on ability tracking throughout the educational system.

As noted earlier, this is a weakened version of that law, as here no agential notion of ability is present.

But, these compatibilists maintain, that first premise is falsified when interpreted with an uncontroversial notion of ability.

But, these compatibilists maintain, the first premise is falsified when interpreted with a milder notion of ability.

And if that is correct, then Lehrer's example succeeds as a counterexample to (CA) as a theory of our ordinary notion of ability.

But our ordinary notion of ability, that of which we are attempting to give a theory, seems to involve both psychological and non-psychological requirements.

Beliefs about the innate nature of human abilities are tools to perpetuate and magnify achievement gaps — a pretty scary thought when we consider that immutable notions of ability are so deeply embedded into our educational structures (e.g., tracking by "ability levels").

To refer to a person as "wheelchair-dependant" carries with it stable notions of ability and disability that belie the myriad possibilities of a body-wheelchair-place assemblage.

It's part of Britain's notion of its ability to punch heavier than its weight internationally, and it has been central to so many calculations.

Pop stars have long been estranged from any notion of musical ability (Britney Spears, anyone?); but, the real tragedy is that this new category of stars doesn't even pretend to have a talent.

Note that r = 0.5 suggests that those not tested are only at 50% risk of hypoxia (given Zs) compared to those who were tested: this is consistent with the notion of predictive ability of the clinical judgment, beyond Zs, that the hypoxia test is positive.