Furthermore, some doctrines have a very general religious basis (e.g., women should be modest) but are interpreted to require far more severe or detailed customs (e.g., women must be entirely covered whenever they are in public).
What that biology gives us is a set of very general principles on the basis of which we are able to develop one system of moral beliefs or another.
Philosophers do many, many different things, but if I just stick with moral and political philosophy, there are some very general questions about the basis of the moral life where laying it out in a reasoned way can help us.
As a very general example, on the basis of the few observations which humans had made during a cosmically brief period in a spatially tiny part of the cosmos, Newton theorized that all bits of matter at all times and in all places attracted all other bits of matter.
A very general definition of acids and basis, following both Brønsted and Lewis theories, is the starting point to introduce the concept of the acid and basic strength of surface sites.
These curves are represented as linear combinations of cubic B-spline basis functions with only very general smoothness assumptions.
We argue that evolutionary history is not only a source of uncertainty, but also provides the basis, through conserved traits, for very general explanations for biological regularities, and the prospect of unified theories of life.
The spot market concept is used as the basis for the modeling of a very general competitive market structure.
Lieutenant Adams said he would ask the department to explain the basis for the investigations, which were disclosed in very general terms during the testimony Thursday by Chief King, who directs criminal investigations into police officers.
"This is a very general mechanism for influencing what people remember and forget on the basis of whether it can be reliably predicted given the situation in which it occurs or not," Turk-Browne said.
