Sentence examples for opposing representations from inspiring English sources

Previous research has found that mixed-handers more so than strong-handers can maintain multiple and oftentimes opposing representations simultaneously.

Now, as they struggle to negate each other, each of the two opposing representations is, as Herbart puts it, inhibited (gehemmt) by the other (PsW: 130; SW V: 274, f).

Two generically similar, and therefore opposed, representations will strive to fuse with one another, on account of the unity of the psyche.

The soul's unity that we encountered in 3.2 functioned as the metaphysical principle of the inhibition of opposed representations in 3.3.1 2.

So they come to rest in a state of mutual inhibition, in which neither "shines" as brightly as it would if unimpeded by the other.[20] What Herbart calls the "inhibition-sum", then, is the total of the opposed inhibitory forces, i.e., the total inhibiting exerted by the opposed representations upon each other, in a state of resting equilibrium.

He said Medway, Kent and Southend councils, the RSPB, the National Grid, Friends of North Kent Marshes and other groups had all made representations opposing the plans.

That is why the Tories (and some in Labour) opposed proportional representation in general elections, and why Labour and the Lib Dems were loth to redraw constituency boundaries.

The man in charge of the review is Justice Secretary Jack Straw, who has loathed and opposed proportional representation since he was a political advisor to Barbra Castle in the 1970s.