Sentence examples for ordinary concept from inspiring English sources

You can't treat it as any ordinary concept special that you put on.

Although Hart famously criticized such "prediction theories" as not adequate to the ordinary concept of law (after all, the judge who decides whether Mr. Smith owes money to Mr. Jones is not trying to predict his own behaviour), Ross was not interested in the ordinary concept of law.

Hart, who spent his academic career at the University of Oxford, the centre of the "ordinary language" movement associated with J.L. Austin (1911 60) and Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 1951), framed his theory as an attempt to understand the ordinary concept of law the concept familiar to any citizen of an advanced modern legal system.

But this does not imply our ordinary concept of causation is mistaken.

Rather, it is thought of as a revision or reconstruction of the ordinary concept.

In other words, the ordinary concept of color is captured by that philosophical view known as 'Color Primitivism'.

This was bullshit, as box office most often buys ordinary concepts".

The ordinary concepts of decency and cruelty are somehow inverted, resulting in terror and confusion among the guards and an almost beatific calm in the ranks of the inmates.

What about the extensions of such ordinary concepts as baldness, wisdom, personhood?

One problem, then, with the narrow interpretation is its picture of (ordinary) concepts and their contents.

So much analytic metaphysics consists in "reconstructions" of our ordinary concepts; a significant amount of it is unabashedly "revisionary".