Sentence examples for primitive notion from inspiring English sources

But in the case of a bond, the primitive notion was different.

Some nominalists avoid imperfect-community problems by taking the naturalness of a class as a primitive notion.

"We must move away from the primitive notion of separation between church and state," Putin said in response.

Psychologists have found that at two months old, babies possess a primitive notion of objects that they expect to move as connected wholes.

At its heart is a fear and loathing of sex that originates largely from a primitive notion of women's bodies as essentially unclean.

The writer Andrew Billen, her long-time collaborator on this paper, says: "It was as if she had a very primitive notion of the soul – that you could be captured".

"Both are very strong primitive notions".

All the primitive notions of first-order logic and set theory, including truth values, connectives and quantifiers, set-membership and set-equality, are interpreted as terms.

It reflected a book-learned view of unregulated market power which failed to ring her alarm bells as Scargill's primitive notions of class struggle did, and was just as naïve.

But if we set aside the stereotypes and contemplate the consequences of these two modes of behavior on organizational life, we may discover that primitive notions of masculinity work no better in the office over the long term than they do in bed.

In these characterisations, the primitive notions include 'characteristic', but nothing precise is said about this notion.