Sentence examples for order theorist from inspiring English sources

A study by CouponCabin confirmed birth order theorist Alfred Adler's beliefs that firstborns are likely to be power-hungry conservatives, highly responsible and organized, as they've been expected to lead by example during their formative years.

What options does a first-order theorist have to resist this conclusion?

In just about every section of this entry, we have encountered someone as interpreting the relevant philosopher as a higher-order theorist.

But note that this reply will be unavailable to any higher-order theorist who has opted to downplay the cognitive demands of the capacity for higher-order representation in response to the problem of animal consciousness.

Higher-order theorists are united in thinking that there can.

There are then two main dimensions along which higher-order theorists disagree amongst themselves.

Higher-order theorists will argue, of course, that none of these alternatives is acceptable (see, e.g., Carruthers 2000).

Higher-order theorists will allow, of course, that mental states can be targets of higher-order representation without being phenomenally conscious.

Many higher-order theorists have attempted to resist the claim that their theory has any such entailment, but with doubtful success (e.g. Gennaro 1996, 2004; Van Gulick 2006).

In response to this objection, higher-order theorists will join forces with first-order theorists and others in claiming that these objectors pitch the standards for explaining phenomenal consciousness too high (Block and Stalnaker 1999; Tye 1999; Carruthers 2000, 2005; Lycan 2001).

These higher-order theorists will allow that first-order accounts—of the sort defended by Dretske (1995) and Tye (1995), for example can already make some progress with the problem of consciousness.