Sentence examples for received views of from inspiring English sources

This revisionist history contests received views of Cortés as either swashbuckling hero or bloviating villain, of the Aztecs as cannibals, and of Montezuma as a meek, mystical king who voluntarily capitulated.

Then Thomas Kuhn and Paul Feyerabend challenged received views of science and made talk of revolutionary breaks and incommensurability central to the emerging new field of history and philosophy of science.

It could be regretted that Hauser does not challenge the received view of Bacon, but in a book resting mostly on secondary sources it would be a mistake to build a theory on the mythologies that envelop this artist.

But conservatives have found a champion in Mr Windschuttle over his assertion that the received view of a blood-soaked Australian frontier is a myth "designed to create an edifice of black victimhood and white guilt".

Mr Eglin is acutely alive to the way in which the received view of Bath, as a serene and homogenous Georgian polis, works to hide the fact that for most of Nash's time the place was a construction site, squabbled over by a set of bad-tempered competing interests: builders, architects and the city corporation itself.

Rawls' discussion is in some tension with the received view of envy.

Despite these similarities, however, republican freedom is not equivalent to the received view of negative liberty as non-interference.

The received view of pitch therefore implies an error theory according to which pitch experience involves a widespread projective illusion.

The Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika view shows similarities with the received view of the emotions in Western philosophy with regard to the point that feelings are a disturbance of cognition.

By contrast, it seems fair to say that there is a philosophically established received view of the basic methodology of mathematics.

Recent scholarship has provided what the received view of Viennese neopositivism lacks: recognition and documentation of the sometimes sharply differentiated positions behind the generic surface.