Sentence examples for putative subjects from inspiring English sources

Bent simply on its own propagation, his work consumes and diminishes the meanings of its putative subjects; even the terrific "Cubis" suffer from a sense of deflating quotation, from standard languages of formal abstraction.

Hobbes's fundamental criticism of common-law theory was that the "immemorial customs" of the community, claimed to be the foundations of law, are not always easily discernible; they may in fact be deeply controversial, and so the common law may by nature fail to offer authoritative and final views of what its putative subjects ought to do.

According to Raz, the essential role of authorities in our practical reasoning is to mediate between the putative subjects of the authority and the right reasons which apply to them in the relevant circumstances.

An authority is legitimate if and only if it helps its putative subjects to comply better with the right reasons relevant to their actions i.e., if they are more likely to act in compliance with these reasons by following the authoritative resolution than they would be if they tried to figure out and act on the reasons directly (without the mediating resolution).

(The "putative subject" of Carole Radziwill's book, by the way, is Carole Radziwill. She wrote a memoir).

Often, in his maelstroms of agitated water and inflammatory blazes of light, the putative subject is hard to locate.

It's not only appalling but ironic, since the author's marriage, according to Kantor, is the "putative subject" of the book.

Its putative subject is Bryce Canyon in Utah, but this 12-part, richly populated instrumental work was commissioned to be played at Lincoln Center, surrounded by the skyscrapers he detested.

Like Dyer, Sjöberg can't resist straying from his putative subject toward any nearby attraction, which is how, in a book about insects, we wind up learning about Ester Nordström.

Some have attempted to formulate very specific theses relating to the putative subject matter of psychology, argued that these are empirical, and offered the results as a specific version of materialism.

First was the development of the view, first articulated in ancient Greece and developed to some extent by Aquinas, that law should be understood on the model of a command, given by a superior to an inferior, the issuance of which made certain actions obligatory for the rational addressee (and putative subject).