Sentence examples for understood primarily from inspiring English sources

The scene can be understood primarily as a paean to the perfect pizza-slice crust.

After the piece is created, the space will be understood primarily as a function of the sculpture".

"Of all philosophy, logic most appealed to me," said Abelard, who by "logic" understood primarily a discipline not unlike certain 20th-century approaches, the "critical analysis of thought on the basis of linguistic expression".

Although erotic love has frequently been understood primarily as sexual desire and passion, its classical religious and philosophical meaning was the idealistic desire to acquire the highest spiritual and intellectual good.

In the West God was understood primarily in terms of one essence (the Trinity of persons being conceived as an irrational truth found in revelation); in the East the tri-personality of God was understood as the primary fact of Christian experience.

First, mechanists criticize the idea that reduction should be understood primarily as a relationship between theories.

Atlantic bluefin tuna has been the most challenging of the three bluefin species to understand, primarily due to their complex population structure, the late ages to reproduction in the western population, and logistical challenges of handling the largest of the three bluefin tuna species in captive environments.

In short, taking the logic as a category theory opens up two general lines of interpretation: should the categories be understood as primarily ontological categories, as found in Aristotle, or as primarily categories revealing the necessary structure of thought, as in Kant?

The play was written in 1604, at a time when in English society "black skin color was understood... primarily within a symbolic logic," the Shakespeare scholar Daniel Vitkus writes.

But the Founding Fathers understood happiness primarily in terms of safety and security, often alluding to the Old Testament phrase "and there shall be none to make them afraid".

These and other thinkers, she writes, understood faith primarily as a practice, rather than as a system — not as "something that people thought but something they did".