Sentence examples for was traditionally understood from inspiring English sources

In the 1960s Thomas Kuhn argued that discarding an old theory for a radically new one involved a complete change of framework, a "paradigm shift", that could not easily be explained by adjusting old theories in light of fresh evidence as that was traditionally understood.

Prior to the brain-death movement, death was traditionally understood along the lines of the cardiopulmonary standard: death as the irreversible cessation of cardiopulmonary function.

The theological formulations by Peter Abelard, Peter Lombard and Peter of Poitiers discussed above exemplify twelfth-century deviations from the Aristotelian thesis 'What is necessarily is when it is.' This was traditionally understood as implying the principle of the necessity of the present, which was not questioned in ancient modal theories (Knuuttila 1993, Ch. 1).

At the time, lettering was traditionally understood as being subservient to graphics ― the caption beneath the image ― but Peckolick embraced the visual nature of the letters themselves, allowing them to speak up and talk back.

While stress was traditionally understood to suppress the immune system and result in numerous pathologies [ 6, 87], more recent work suggests that acute stress can actually have salubrious consequences for the immune system, resulting in an enhanced response to pathogenic infection [ 55], whereas chronic stress suppresses the immune system with resulting changes in immunopathology [ 52, 55, 88].

Ive says it will be "a move away from what is traditionally understood as consumer electronics".

The answer to the Tata Steel sell-off is not nationalisation – at least as it is traditionally understood – but state action.

This dates back to the revolution of 1789 and is traditionally understood to be a way of controlling and disciplining the Catholic Church.

Both works draw on an intellectual French practice of pedestrian dance-theater, in which not much dance, as it is traditionally understood, occurs.

It is traditionally understood to divide the arid western half of the Great Plains from the more fertile region to the east.

Kevin James, a trombonist and composer, decided instead to write a work using some of the same principles that animate Cage's music, including randomness, humor and a mingling of music as it is traditionally understood and unalloyed noise.