Sentence examples for of ordinary understanding from inspiring English sources

Like her enigmatic, resistant paintings, her statements are designed to express something beyond the reach of ordinary understanding, weapons in a campaign to devalue the material and elevate the abstract.

Second, the positive accounts contained in his later works, especially that of the Republic, treat happiness as a state of perfection that is hard to comprehend because it is based on metaphysical presuppositions that seem both hazy and out of the realm of ordinary understanding.

One constraint, widely accepted, is that the theory should give an adequate account of the ordinary understanding of color.

But "the virtuous agent" is just "the agent with the virtues" and it is part of our ordinary understanding of the virtue terms that each carries with it its own typical range of reasons for acting.

Then, there are other theorists, e.g., those defending a Primitivist account of color, who draw upon an account of our ordinary understanding, which does not take the form of a folk theory (see Section 6.1).

The merits of this argument are questionable; in many cases we can sensibly doubt the truth of a definition, especially where the definition makes use of discoveries that have not been part of our ordinary understanding, as is normally the case with definitions in the natural sciences.

That causal asymmetry should be explained in part by our psychological constitution, in a way analogous to our understanding of secondary qualities such as colour, is a radical reversal of our ordinary assumptions, but then our ordinary understanding of a number of apparently objective features of the world tense, absolute simultaneity have met with similarly radical challenges.

THE law often makes use of legal definitions that depart from our ordinary understanding of words," Dr. Baur said.

But the legal definitions of "independent" and "coordination" are far different from the ordinary understanding of those words.

In our ordinary understanding of Love this is where the story would end.

However, the interest theory is also misaligned with any ordinary understanding of rights.