Sentence examples for ordinary capacity from inspiring English sources
When you hear a politician reflexively ticking the vision box, you hear someone laying claim to an honour that can actually be conferred only by posterity, someone trying to lever a quite ordinary capacity to think about problems and their possible solutions into something far more heroic.
However, the Zhuangzi seems skeptical that we can extrapolate from this ordinary capacity to broaden our perspective to having some absolute or comprehensive insight as it were from all points of view.
The reasoning is not only irresistible, but managed in a mode so simple and clear, that its force is obvious to the most ordinary capacity.
He continues to glean insight from this idea today: "... business men and cultured scholars have found that Christian Science enhances their endurance and mental powers, enlarges their perception of character, gives them acuteness and comprehensiveness and an ability to exceed their ordinary capacity" (Science and Health, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 128).
Opponents of natural religion or theology, by contrast, deny that reason or our other ordinary capacities can justify religious beliefs.
Contemporary advocates of the importance of correctly perceiving the morally relevant facts tend to focus on facts that we can perceive using our ordinary sense faculties and our ordinary capacities of recognition, such as that this person has an infection or that this person needs my medical help.
On the one hand, on a view of character such as Aristotle's, which relies on ordinary capacities to experience the pleasures of self-expression and to respond with friendly feelings to others' efforts to help, almost everyone is capable of becoming better.
More than a walk in the woods or a jaunt through one's neighborhood, to move great distances was an arduous challenge to ordinary capacities, because a journey over considerable distances involved one's mind, body, and spirit.
What they do have is an out-of-the-ordinary capacity to care for others.
The details of Hume's "science of man" show the weakness of our ordinary cognitive capacity; at the same time it offers an argument for staying within confines of (potential) ordinary experience.
Since 1983, Sharon Tennison has worked to develop ordinary citizens' capacities to avert international crises, focusing on relations between the U.S. and Russia.
