Sentence examples for rejected the reality from inspiring English sources

He had agreed to the idea of the adoption, but now he rejected the reality.

Hume, in A Treatise of Human Nature (1739 40), rejected the reality of cause and effect as ordinarily conceived, arguing that belief in particular causal connections could not be justified rationally but could be explained psychologically as the product of mere "habit" and the "association of ideas".

Those who, before or shortly after Newton, rejected the reality of space, did not necessarily deny that there is a fact of the matter as to the state of true motion of any given body.

When faced with this ideological dilemma, free-market advocates often resolve the cognitive dissonance by simply rejecting the reality of climate change, rather than acknowledging that their axiom is fundamentally flawed.

Climate change illustrates this well, because despite overwhelming evidence of anthropogenic influence, there is a tendency for those with pronounced free-market views to reject the reality of global warming.

Among those things is the idea (that Smolin advances brilliantly and persuasively) that the reason physicists have come to reject the reality of time is that they have been bewitched by the beauty and success of the mathematical models they use into mistaking those models for reality.

He argues that Russell was led to this nominalism after first rejecting the reality of classes,then of propositional functions, and finally the reality of propositions.

(1975a: 9 10ff) Sakya rejects the reality of conventional truth by treating it as a projection of conventional mind it is the ignorance of ordinary beings.

A return to common and old patterns of employment cannot be the answer to these developments: Clinging to old employment structures is akin to rejecting the reality, as is forcing the "total" flexibilisation of the labour markets.

The arguments that affirm the conventional reality of the external objects are the same arguments that Bhāvavevika employed to criticise the Yogācāra arguments rejecting the reality of external objects.

Further, Bradley does uniformly reject the reality of external relations, and it is easy, though not logically inevitable, to interpret this as a commitment to the doctrine of internality.