Sentence examples for understood as mere from inspiring English sources

We need to be willing to cut our losses and accept when a research programme has not advanced, rather than grasping to explain variations that can easily be understood as mere chance.

If the history of religions does not surrender its neutrality since such a surrender would thereby reduce the discipline to anthropology in an ideological sense (e.g., religion understood as mere projection of the psyche or of societal conditions)—theology will recognize the history of religions as a science providing valuable material and as one of the sciences in the universe of sciences.

It may consist of (networks or patterns of) correlated data understood as mere differences or constraining affordances.

Rindler (for example, in 1977), agrees that there are many purported conversions that are best understood as mere transformations of one kind of energy into a different kind of energy.

Accepting the observational under-determination of motion understood as mere change of relative position, and finding absurd the consequence that there is no genuine motion in the world, Leibniz denies the premise that there is nothing more to motion than relative change of position.

In any case, in the development of Nishida's thought, "being" is thought of in terms of the objectivity of determinate things, "relative nothingness" is understood as a mere privation or simple negation of being, and an enveloping sense of "nothingness" is provisionally associated with a kind of transcendental subjectivity of consciousness or the heart-mind.

The loss to the taxpayer in terms of "negative liberty" (liberty understood as the mere absence of intentional coercion) is, so the reply continues, morally outweighed by this gain in terms of "positive liberty".

In any case, the philosophical or Romantic notion of nature as an unfathomable unity and creative force which cannot be seen nor touched, and which is obviously a direct response to some of the many questions raised by Kant's three Critiques, is not to be understood as a mere intellection, an empty chimera: Nature is the productive force pulsing in all living beings.

In this programme, the function of ecosystems is clearly understood "as something broader than mere economic value" (Leopold [1949], 223).

It is to admit that the aggregates are understood as unified through a mere conceptual construction, "person," just as the taste, touch, and smell of milk generate the conceptual construction, "milk".

It is important to note that conventional objects, such as the Eiffel Tower, tables, persons, ideas, and so on, are the same regardless of whether their existences are understood as conventionally true or mere conventions.