Sentence examples for understood in the second from inspiring English sources

Knowledge comes in through the eye, is processed in the first chamber, understood in the second (the soul) and stored by memory in the third.

But if God is understood in the second way, Ockham thinks that it cannot be shown that there is only one god.

540-576), allegedly saw the beaching of an Indian ship laden with treasures and a Buddha triad: an event understood in the second-oldest Korean historical document to mean that political authority invested in an Indian king by the Buddha was transferred onto the lord of Silla.

It was something that Ranke understood in the nineteenth century that made history different.

"Most of the tricks he had in his bag when I was with him, I never understood in the first place.

Posada understood in the first inning that Clemens was not throwing as hard as he usually does -- "He didn't have the good fastball," Posada said -- and the radar gun readings reflected this.

Arguing that religion must be understood in the first instance as deriving from rudimentary human experiences, from lived, embodied practices, S. Brent Plate asks us to put aside, for the moment, questions of belief and abstract ideas.

When I met my wife, a divorced mother of four children, in the most bizarre of circumstances (thank you, World of Warcraft), I was so infatuated I didn't even realize I was diving into a situation I'd never really understood in the first place.

In this article, Quine's criterion and quantifier criteria more generally—have always been understood in the first, stronger way.

It's a classic problem that arises whenever a new term enters the general financial lexicon without being properly understood in the first place.

In the remainder of this entry, essentialism will be understood in the first of the four ways so maximal essentialism and minimal essentialism will both be viewed as forms of essentialism.