Sentence examples for understood as weak from inspiring English sources

This weak/strong distinction (for more on which, see Humberstone (1993)) is not usually registered in the literature, and functional completeness simpliciter is understood as weak functional completeness.

The statement may enjoy a stronger necessity, too, which would render it true in all worlds, period.[1] In this entry, "necessity" is to be understood as weak necessity (at least).

While such a broad principle is more plausible if it is understood as extremely weak, reciprocity could not do the work of justifying the costly post-trial access to trial interventions that many of its proponents expect of it.

Such a fitness reduction in progeny born to old parents has been reported for organisms ranging from bacteria [ 11] to humans [ 21] and can be understood as consequence of weak selection on old parents [ 3].

They are better understood as efforts to defend weak competitors.

The first method is a Bogoliubov or linear expansion in quantum fluctuations which can be understood as an approximation for weak nonlinearities.

A number of other characteristics of B. prionotes can be understood as secondary responses to weak serotiny.

Furthermore, this would be the meaning of being, understood as the history of interpretation (as "weak" being) instead of a grounding truth, and the hermeneutics of being would be a distorted historicism.

But those philosophers who take Quine's criterion to be compatible with an entailment approach to ontological commitment are best understood as interpreting him in the second, weaker way.

On certain assumptions (e.g. that modal operators are to be understood as quantifiers over worlds), the modal operator versions of strong and weak supervenience respectively entail the possible world versions; but not vice versa (McLaughlin 1995).

Some students of Adorno's work have argued that his account of the role of "sensuous immediacy" can be understood as an attempt to defend a "legitimate anthropomorphism" that comes close to a weak form of animism (Bernstein 2001, 196).