Sentence examples for ordinary notion from inspiring English sources

Plantinga points out that our ordinary notion of free will, and of personal responsibility, does not require this sort of radical autonomy.

There's a lot of technical detail, but as I see it the main point is that we see a sharp drop in measured British productivity that could be the result either of some mysterious structural shift or the much more ordinary notion that many firms have held on to "overhead" labor in the face of what they expect to be only a temporary fall in sales.

The sun is relentless but the locals make it work in their favour, air-drying steak to make carne de sol, a Cuiaban specialty, and the surrounding region is threaded with rivers teeming with local fish such as caxara, pintado, pacu and pera putanga, creatures so removed from an ordinary notion of the piscatorial life it seems pointless to offer a translation of their names.

The definition does have some consequences that do not accord with the ordinary notion.

So strictly speaking nothing corresponds to the ordinary notion of pain.

But this is not the ordinary notion of conditional probability deriving from the work of Kolmogorov.

And many of us are inclined to stick to the ordinary notions.

This type of unity is a far cry from the idea of unity inherent in our ordinary notions of character.

The same habits of mind that produce arbitrary and absurd chains of reasoning also produce the theories that splendidly annihilate our ordinary notions of time and space and logic.

Comparing one of a pair of entangled photons moving through space at around 25,000kph with another on the ground will let physicists probe what happens when quantum entanglement meets the theory of relativity, which kicks in at such speeds, upending ordinary notions of space and time.

It is now widely acknowledged that trying to characterize ordinary notions with necessary and sufficient conditions is doomed to failure.