Tenure, like academic freedom, depends on a certain picture of what goes on in college and university classrooms — high-level discussions tied to cutting edge research into intellectual problems.
At the heart of Greco's view is a certain picture of knowledge that it is a kind of 'success through ability'.
The goal of such inquiry was not to arrive at a certain picture of the nature of things, but at an inevitably provisional solution to the practical and intellectual problem that sparked inquiry.
The main danger for such approaches is that in seeking to preserve and defend a certain picture of the primordial role of evaluative thought in rational action a picture critics are likely to dismiss as too rationalistic such theorists may be led to reject common phenomena which ought properly to have constrained their more abstract theories.
Survivalism, the practice of preparing for a crackup of civilization, tends to evoke a certain picture: the woodsman in the tinfoil hat, the hysteric with the hoard of beans, the religious doomsayer.
"From what people have told us," said Ms. Fleming, those forces "don't want any pictures getting out, and they want a certain picture of what's going on inside".
"The creed is a fine document in many ways," he told me, "but it reinforces a certain picture of what you're here for, and it can be very hard to break the grip of that with students".
In the seventeenth century, celestial mechanics gave philosophers a certain picture of a way the world might be: it might be a world whose future states were entirely determined by the past and the laws of nature (of which Newton's laws of motion and law of universal gravitation served as paradigms).
Yet, they are so distinguished in being pictures of a certain kind unicorn-pictures classified differently from pictures of other kind unicorn-pictures classifiedor Pickwick-pictures.
He hung negative prints of certain pictures together as a group so they seemed to form a big, lacy, openwork pattern.
