Sentence examples for ordinary notion of 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.

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.

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.

(Paul Horwich has made a closely related proposal for the ordinary notion of truth).

Dennett also argues that the ordinary notion of pain will not survive giving up either (14) or (15).

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.

Modern versions of eliminative materialism claim that our common-sense understanding of psychological states and processes is deeply mistaken and that some or all of our ordinary notions of mental states will have no home, at any level of analysis, in a sophisticated and accurate account of the mind.

The respondents focused on Justice Gaudron's decision in Chu, in which she said: "Detention in custody in circumstances not involving some breach of the criminal law and not coming within well-accepted categories of the kind to which Brennan, Deane and Dawson JJ refer is offensive to ordinary notions of what is involved in a just society.