On the one hand, he roundly rejects a view of world history "as the brutal saga of predatory imperialism, the West's invasion of the hapless non-West".
With his polarity thesis Brentano not only dismisses the Kantian tradition, he also rejects a view that Frege made popular, namely that there are no negative judgements.
The Transcendent Self falsely rejects a view of selves that Plumwood defends: human selves are emotionally interdependent, ecological, relational beings whose actualization requires a rejection of rationalism (the identification of humans with reason or rationality) and mind-body dualism.
It may be difficult, for example, to reject a view provided by parents or another authority figure because this may, in the mind of the recipient, be equivalent to rejection of that individual or institution (Demastes et al. 1995a; Woods and Scharmann 2001; Williams 2009; Wiles et al. 2011).
Mr. Assad extolled what he called the strength of Syria's society, rejecting a widespread view that the struggle in his country has become a sectarian conflict pitting his Alawite minority sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam, against an insurgency drawn largely from the Sunni majority.
Rejecting a common view that delinquency was the product of youthful irresponsibility, the authors argued instead that it was a symptom of poverty and of the lack of opportunity that poverty entailed — conditions that could be addressed through carefully designed social programs in local communities.
Ms. Kagan expressed "worry" that a majority on the court would use the case to reject a broad view of substantive due process under which the doctrine can not only be used to restrict official actions, but also to require the government to affirmatively do things.
Thus the early pramāṇavāda thinkers like Dignāga and Dharmakīrti can be considered to hold a soft form of connotationism in that they would reject a denotationist view that considers words to apply directly to actual particulars.
And so, after rejecting a number of other views of soul, Saadya describes the soul's three faculties as "the faculty of discernment, the faculty of appetite, and the faculty of courage" (147).
Similarly, rejecting a patient for his political views, inability to pay, refusal to abide by medical advice, decision to smoke (or play contact sports?), or other characteristics not protected by law would fall completely within the realm of physician discretion.
