Sentence examples for special faculty from inspiring English sources

Since Broca's claim that language is a special faculty, instantiated in a specialized neural system primarily involving the left inferior frontal gyrus and posterior temporal cortex (Broca, 1861; Dronkers et al., 2004; Vigneau et al., 2006), there has been continued and heated debate about the precise role of the left inferior frontal gyrus in language.

Although reason alone may seem to deliver knowledge of some kinds of nonempirical truths e.g., of logic and mathematics—it does not seem to deliver the truths of morality, and there appears to be no other special faculty by which such truths may be detected.

Judgment is the special faculty and province of the statesman.

Perhaps, then, we have a special faculty, distinct from the five senses, for detecting time.

Far from being a special faculty, confined to a romantic elite, creativity is a facet of normal human intelligence.

But she rejects the Platonic conception of values as "things" that can be "apprehended by some special faculty" (123).

Even Egypt's giant and crumbling state universities have launched fee-paying special faculties where curriculum and accreditation are American.In this section Après Moi, le déluge?

I was happy to see Ms. Robinson emphasize that one need not be born with special faculties to be a good wine taster.

They also draw on certain "special faculties" that the Congregation was granted in 2002 and 2003 by Pope John Paul II at the request Cardinal Ratzinger, then the congregation's prefect, that streamline some disciplinary procedures, according to a canon lawyer familiar with the norms.

Even those who take the idea or perceptual moral knowledge literally are not thereby committed to belief in such special faculties.

The special faculties required for the brain to exercise its soul's dominion are identified as the imagination (here called wahm, a term that Avicenna was to adopt and expand upon); a cogitative power (al-fikr); and memory (al-hifz).