Sentence examples for thin concepts from inspiring English sources

They were also reductive about the thin concepts.

First, Moore and his contemporaries took as basic only the "thin" concepts good and ought rather than "thick" moral concepts such as courage and generosity; the latter, they held, combined a thin concept with some more or less determinate descriptive content.

But there isn't much else to remember in this thin concept piece.

His is no thin concept couched in 200 pages of waffle.

If PNTR, too, had failed, foreigners might have questioned America's ability to deliver on any negotiated international commitments.Meanwhile the passage of PNTR clearly puts some flesh on the hitherto thin concept of a Clinton legacy.

Accordingly, a thick concept of luck is a more specific version of the corresponding thin concept of luck.

On the other hand, one might doubt that there really is a universally shared concept of law that is employed by practitioners in all jurisdictions or if there is one, it is doubtful that it is anything more than the sort of thin concept that one possesses in virtue of knowing what the word "law" in its juridical sense means.

Because of our thin concept of democracy -- that elected government plus a one-rule economy (highest return to existing wealth) are all we need to meet human needs.

He wrote, "Cribbing from countless adrenaline-fueled concept films, from 'Speed' to any Jason Statham movie you like, 'Getaway' … tries to ride its thin concept, hoping the fumes of constant engine revving are intoxicating".

Will it be an endless series of mega-budgeted films with digitized action, featuring paper-thin concepts and characters?

Detailed information as regards the classical thin or non-thin concepts can be found in [8].