Sentence examples for the ancient view from inspiring English sources
He affirms this point a few lines later, repeating the ancient view of number as multiples of the primordial "unity".
He further embraces the ancient view that those dicta entail a common substratum for all matter, as the composition and resolution of material things always yield matter.
Although the gender of the partner was more important than in the ancient view, the broader theological framework placed the emphasis upon a sin versus refraining-from-sin dichotomy.
(This view is reminiscent of the ancient view of natural necessity, revived by Sir Francis Bacon, that such cases are beyond human law and can only be judged by the natural law of instinct).
Our understanding of the relationship between vascular risk factors and dementia evolved from the ancient view that Alzheimer's disease arose from 'hardening of the arteries.' That idea gave way in the 1970s to a hard-won conceptual distinction between neurodegenerative dementias on the one hand and dementias from vascular causes on the other.
The ancients' views, once rediscovered, must be assessed on their merits, and when he turns to the ethical vocabulary he in fact finds them to have blundered disastrously.
Close work with observational data collected by Tycho Brahe led Kepler to abandon the universal ancient view that the orbits of the planets were circular and to recognize their elliptical nature.
After doing so in section 3.4, the final section of this article will outline a type of interpretation that takes the prevailing ancient view more seriously while responding to at least one major problem it encounters in the fragments.
The other equally ancient view, going right back into the New Testament era, is of an all-forgiving God who in the person of Jesus Christ ended the era of scapegoat sacrifice, retribution and punishment forever.
She described Chinese gardens as "cosmic diagrams, revealing a profound and ancient view of the world, and of man's place in it".
Although man tends to associate the soul with personal survival or continuity after death, there is an equally ancient view that emphasizes the continuity of life.
