Sentence examples for notions of purpose from inspiring English sources

The notions of purpose or end [Zweck] and of purposiveness [Zweckmässigkeit] are defined by Kant in the "Critique of Aesthetic Judgment," in a section entitled "On Purposiveness in General" (§10).

Third, the unclarity of the connection between what a thing is and what it does leaves unresolved the degree of interdependence between substance concepts and notions of purpose and final causation.

They may be able to do all kinds of things that humans cannot, he thinks, but there is one area where we are unquestionably unique – we have notions of purposes and goals.

His last job was running Toms Shoes, which has a more altruistic notion of purpose: it gives away a pair of shoes to a poor child for every one it sells.

It introduces the notion of purpose, or aim.

I could quote many other modern scientists who reject the notion of purpose in the universe, of which life and evolution are for us a significant part.

This is much like Elman's notion of purpose and inception, and Chudnovsky's focus on language: When people understand your product in simple terms that speak to their needs, your product catches on.

The general faculty correctly rejected (89%) the notion of "purpose" and "goal toward humanity" in evolution (choice b, Fig. 8) and also the misconception that humans have evolved from chimpanzees (rejection 94%, choice c, Fig. 8) or the possibility of Lamarckian inheritance of acquired traits (rejection only 69%, choice e, Fig. 8).

This is not true, because Moritz's conception of the beauty of an individual work of art is that it is an intimation of the true and objective order of nature as a whole, while Kant's notion of purposiveness without purpose is that of a subjective state of mind in which our mental powers of imagination and understanding are in a free harmony that does not by itself represent anything at all.

Believers could scale back their conception of God's role in creation, and atheists could accept that some notions of "higher purpose" are compatible with scientific materialism.

Ryan explains how St. Augustine's "The City of God" radically revised notions of the purpose of existence.