Sentence examples for realistic conception of from inspiring English sources

If you think it counts as a surprise that Mitt Romney won Michigan by three points when polls showed a rough tie, or that Rick Santorum narrowly won Iowa when he was a couple of points back, you don't have a realistic conception of how reliable primary and caucus polling is.

But once we adopt a realistic conception of human agency, the problem evaporates.

Right at the outset of the work, Spinoza parrots Machiavelli's critique of utopian theorizing, elevating statesmen over philosophers, since only the latter begin with a realistic conception of human psychology (TP 1/1; cf. Machiavelli's Prince I.15).

The first is the "realistic conception of Being," which is defined by the conception of being as completely independent of thought, so that whatever is true of it is true quite independently of what may be thought about it.

Both of these paintings were more accurate than Dürer's woodcut, and a more realistic conception of the rhinoceros gradually started to displace Dürer's image in the public imagination.

However, although these examples can throw some light on why Hegel might think of his approach as leading to an ideal-realistic conception of reality, the idealistic aspect of his view strictly speaking has to do with his theory as to what these concepts of which every object is a realization are supposed to be.

More radical contemporary rejections of foundationalism may well involve dissatisfaction with the foundationalist's implicit commitment to a strong realistic correspondence conception of truth.

Therefore it may seem rather tempting to try to incorporate considerations on truth values into the broader context of traditional truth-theories, such as correspondence, coherence, anti-realistic, or pragmatist conceptions of truth.

"We have lost faith in any of the large available understandings of how structural change takes place in history," he noted, "and as a result, we fall back on a bastardised conception of political realism, namely that a proposal is realistic to the extent that it approaches what already exists.

Christa Maiwald's photographic portraits of toddlers holding realistic toy weapons are surprisingly disturbing, in part because the children obviously have no conception of what the toys represent.

This broader conception of citizenship is widely shared throughout Europe, and provides a starting point for a more realistic discussion of migration than simple numbers.