Sentence examples for privileged kind from inspiring English sources

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These people are conflicted, flawed, kind of privileged, kind of happy.

It seems a very American, very privileged kind of impotence, and Lerner, I think, deliberately contrasts Adam's expensive weakness with the fervor and political ardency of the Spanish artists and poets whom he befriends, a fervor that can seem both naïve and courageous alongside Adam's aimless knowingness.

If logic is to be a distinctive discipline, the Demarcater will argue, it must concern itself not with all kinds of validity or goodness of arguments, but with a special, privileged kind: formal validity.

In crossing this threshold, one ceases to be a being of a certain morally privileged kind: for instance, one ceases to be an autonomous individual, or one turns from a person into a nonperson.

(And in relativity, in which distances, times and measures of relative motion are frame-dependent, what relations are relevant?) If not, then how is the privileged kind of motion to be understood, as relative to space itself — something physical but non-material — perhaps?

One might, of course, reject the idea that there are some metaphysically privileged kinds in the world.

On the predicative reading, knowledge is set over Forms, what is F, for any property F (or some privileged kinds of properties, e.g. incomplete properties); belief is set over what is F and not-F, the material particulars.

This first lap of the argument has the look and feel of an existence proof, and of softening up; in particular, it doesn't purport to show that the twin concepts, 'action' and 'agent,' are among these privileged kinds (Korsgaard 2009, sec. 2.1.8).

The topic of unity in the sciences includes the following questions: Is there one privileged, most basic kind of material, and if not, how are the different kinds of material in the universe related?

Despite Kant's introduction of a transcendental subject, his system remains tied to a naïve empiricist understanding of experience, of the kind privileged in the positivist scientific tradition as the encounter between a distinct subject (conceived as a cognizing consciousness receiving sensible intuitions) and object (understood as a sensation-causing thing-in-itself).