Sentence examples for section of the discourse from inspiring English sources

Rousseau's writings on language and languages are contained in two places, the unpublished Essay on the Origin of Languages and in a section of the Discourse on the Origins of Inequality.

An account of sensible properties calls for a preliminary account of sensation (including pleasure and pain), and it is with that preliminary account that this section of the discourse concludes.

The first of the main sections of the discourse explains the existence of the universe and some of its most general features teleologically.

Reflecting on the first two sections of the Discourse, James O'Higgins notes: "A good deal of what he wrote can be interpreted as the writing of an anti-clerical protestant, insisting on private judgment for the laity.

The outline sent to Arnauld was no more than a list of the propositions that were to appear as the titles of the thirty-seven sections of the Discourse; the entire correspondence was carried out through the intermediary of Hessen-Rheinfels; and the copies of letters received by the two major correspondents were sometimes defective.

As he says in section 13 of the Discourse on Metaphysics (1686), just as "God will always do the best, … a man shall always do … that which appears to him to be the best".

Leibniz gave a brilliant argument (repeated in a number of places, for instance Section 17 of the Discourse on Metaphysics) that it was size times speed2 — so (proportional to) kinetic energy.

At the very least, Leibniz does say that there is a real difference between possession and non-possession of vis viva (e.g., in Section 18 of the Discourse) and it is a small step from there to true, privileged speed.

Approving messages have also been part of the discourse.

Land administrators are part of the discourse.

It is hard for me to fully understand the logic of the discourse in the " Dynamics and possible irreversibility of complexity" section of the Discussion.