Sentence examples for principal sense from inspiring English sources

Indeed, Mengzi (372 289 BC) sometimes even views it as the principal sense organ, responsible for selecting and interpreting the sensations transmitted to it by other sense organs (Mengzi CTP: Gaozi shang, 15).

A primate feeding on fruit must first detect them against a background of leaves; vision and olfaction are probably the principal senses employed.

The integral in (10) is to be taken in the Cauchy principal value sense.

The necessary and sufficient condition is further given for the eigenvector (root vector) system to be complete in the Cauchy principal value sense.

In order to find the expressions of coefficients arising from integrals considered in a Cauchy principal value sense, for which we apply the truncation technique, we need to mention the connection between the two systems of numbering used in this approach: the global and the local one.

(2.1) When ϕ is assumed in addition sufficiently regular, we obtain the direct representation (-Delta)^{s}phi(x)=C_{N,s} int_{{ mathbb{R}^{N}}}frac{phi (x -phi y)}{|x -phi y2s}},dy, (2.2) for a suitable constant (C_{N,s}) and the integral is understood in a principal value sense.

The S4 helix, with its array of positively charged residues (primarily arginines), is thought to be the principal voltage-sensing element.

Ontological and epistemological naturalism in the philosophy of mathematics are discussed more briefly in section 6. Methodological naturalism has three principal and related senses in the philosophy of mathematics.

Prior studies have identified a variety of K2P2.1 (TREK-1) elements that have principal roles in sensing different input types.

Indeed, the fine reception afforded to the speech in the hall was, in a sense, its principal weakness.

Strood's principal, Kim Gunn, believes the sense of achievement her students get from seeing their finished work is second to none.