Sentence examples for upon concepts from inspiring English sources

His pragmatism focuses upon concepts, categories, and principles through which experience is interpreted.

Further Questions for Discussion: –How did archaeologists draw upon concepts developed in the Near East to form assumptions about African early life?

In the course of his argument, a similar doubt was cast upon concepts traditional not only to philosophy but also to linguistics—in particular, the concept of synonymy, or sameness of meaning.

This technique, though forbidding mathematically and time-consuming in the computer, nevertheless is potentially attractive because it depends neither upon concepts reminiscent of analogue hardware nor upon acoustical research data.

In his designs he fragmented existing architectural models in a way that drew upon concepts from philosophy and linguistics, specifically the ideas of the philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche and Jacques Derrida and the linguist Noam Chomsky.

The force-unconstrained poses are identified based upon concepts of reciprocal screws, kinematics, and elimination methods.

Instead, Ms. Warren spoke favorably about what is known as a principle-based approach to regulation that starts with broadly agreed-upon concepts like "fair treatment for consumers".

There has been so massive and calculatedly aggressive an attack on contemporary Arab and Muslim societies for their backwardness, lack of democracy, and abrogation of women's rights that we simply forget that such notions as modernity, enlightenment, and democracy are by no means simple and agreed-upon concepts that one either does or does not find like Easter eggs in the living-room.

To further improve programmes' contextual relevance, Greene et al. (2006) argue that measures and concepts such as 'gender transformative' should initially be explored through focus groups with community members and discussions with knowledge informants, and that agreed-upon concepts should be defined in questionnaires in order to improve their validity and cultural appropriateness.

Perfectionism: is there any more unfairly spat-upon concept?

By Macy Halford November 12, 2009 Perfectionism: is there any more unfairly spat-upon concept?