Sentence examples for objections leveled at from inspiring English sources

While the description of behaviour as a nested hierarchy of functional categories has observational backing, Tinbergen's motivational account of it was subject to many of the same objections leveled at Lorenz's energy model.

The most familiar objection leveled at "Mass" these days is that it has dated badly, trapped in the quaint radical-chic, flower-child age that spawned it: not an especially helpful criticism.

This view, if indeed the Mohists hold it, would invite several objections commonly leveled at crude forms of utilitarianism.

So set aside the (legitimate) criticism that Bok's manner of developing regulative control falls prey to the same sorts of objections leveled against the classical compatibilist.

He also dealt with the traditional criticism of the Categories, including a comprehensive discussion of the objections leveled by the earlier interpreters of the Categories (e.g., the Stoic Athenodorus and Cornutus, and the Platonic Lucius and Nicostratus).

The principal Republican objections have been leveled at three major elements of the bill: the liquidation fund, treatment of creditors and using the F.D.I.C. to handle the winding down of such a company.

Both of these kinds of objections have been leveled at the epistemic principles strategy.

The downside is that strong modal fictionalism seems to face serious objections: see section 4. Apart from any objections that might be leveled at strong modal fictionalism, the advocate of this variety of modal fictionalism faces the challenge of stating the contents of the modal fiction without relying on modal notions in a way that would make the explanation of those modal notions circular.

Another very common objection, one that is often leveled at many forms of motor theory, has to do with the fact that even paralyzed people, with very few possibilities for action, seem capable in many cases of normal spatial perception.

One common criticism leveled at trans people is an objection to the particular way in which trans women embody their womanhood in appearance and mannerisms.

I asked about the criticisms leveled at him.