It constantly sets in opposition biological and adoptive connections.
The methods of ethnography and cognitive psychology are frequently set in opposition to each other.
In Dilemmas (1954) Ryle analyzes propositions that appear irreconcilable, as when free will is set in opposition to the fatalistic view that future specific events are inevitable.
Set in opposition to each other by their community (Aubrey is pious, plain and family-centred, while Nadia is hedonistic, disconnected and focused on education), Nadia and Aubrey are unlikely best friends.
It was a kind of architecture they classified as the "decorated shed", a functional box with ornament applied independently of what's going on inside, which they set in opposition to the "duck", where the architecture itself is a sculptural, symbolic object – named in honour of a duck-shaped egg-stand on Long Island.
Mulhall shows that Cavell "sees the practices of ordinary language philosophy as everywhere set in opposition to [End Page 407] the skeptical impulse" (p. 186).
Both are found guilty of "the same, schematic conception of society set in opposition of majority and minority, differing only in endorsing separation of the minority from the majority… or) assimilation to it" (Council of Europe, 2008, p. 18).
However, starting with the beginning of the seventh century BC two types of discourse emerged that were set in opposition to poetry: history (as shaped by, most notably, Thucydides) and philosophy (as shaped by the peri phuseōs tradition of the sixth and fifth centuries BC).
Throughout, the motion of the moon is set in opposition to the motion of the speaker.
O'Dwyer, her 1978 co-author, because in O'Dwyer's view, Garber was dead-set in opposition to Whitehead - and O'Dwyer's view was, obviously, wrong.
"Literary" writing (choked with metaphors, abstracted from political reality, and overwritten in that peculiarly self-conscious writerly style) is set in opposition to genre writing, merely commercial writing, since part of the mystery of the guild is that it is not aiming for commercial success.
