Sentence examples for ordinary view from inspiring English sources

The more ordinary politicians in the EU's other big countries, three of them due to go to the polls quite soon, must be grateful their voters take a more ordinary view of the Eurocracy.In this section Harsh medicine Berlusconi wins.

Rather, he attempts to show by conceptual analysis that the ordinary view, on which every agent is first inactive and then active, is too narrow.

He thereby restores a meaning to our ordinary view of value judgments as correct or incorrect, and not merely as fostering or discouraging actions and qualities that may be useful to society.

As Darwin wrote in the Origin: "On the ordinary view of the independent creation of each being, we can only say that so it is that it has so pleased the Creator to construct each animal and plant" (1859: 435).

In his Principles of Philosophy of 1644, Descartes had distinguished between the "ordinary" and the "proper" view of motion: whereas the ordinary view presents motion as a body's change of place, the philosopher knows that properly speaking, motion is a body's change of relations to the bodies that surround it (recall Descartes's plenum).

It would seem to be a matter of common sense that concepts are taught to us by our parents through our language; different cultures have different concepts (that go along with their different languages); and concepts evolve over time as a result of historical changes, science, technological advances, etc. Let's (albeit contentiously) call this the "ordinary view" of concepts and ideas.

The squareness and regularity of the outlines of the forms represented is less apparent at ordinary viewing distance.

Practices that challenge ordinary views of purity and impurity, for instance, teach that such notions are not an inherent part of the world but something imposed upon it by convention.

It attracted an audience of 4.5 million and one critic was so struck by the intimate relationship between Royalty on screen and the ordinary viewing punter - the sight of the veiled queen and the quiver of the lilies on the coffin - that he wrote of it as a "magnificent trespass".

First, his conception of happiness differs in significant ways from ordinary views.

To the extent that IIIp4 makes most of the things we intuitively consider genuine objects genuine objects, it captures ordinary views.