Sentence examples for we ordinarily think from inspiring English sources

We ordinarily think of evolution as leading creatures out of the sea, but here the reverse happened: whales evolved from four-footed land mammals beginning some 55 million years ago, in the midst of an era of global heating.

Frank Stella's 1967 diptych pairing concentric squares — brightly colored to the left and in gray to the right — adds to the impression that seeing and hallucinating may be closer than we ordinarily think.

Poverty takes many tolls, but in the United States, one of the most tragic has been its tight link with a group of infections known as the neglected tropical diseases, which we ordinarily think of as confined to developing countries.

Mr Burgess has written a fine farrago of outrageousness, one which incidentally suggests a view of juvenile violence I can't remember having met before: that its greatest appeal is that it's a big laugh, in which what we ordinarily think of as sadism plays little part.

This essay will focus on the general forms of skepticism that question our knowledge in many, if not all, domains in which we ordinarily think knowledge is possible.

This characterization needs some narrowing down if one wants to arrive at a definition that captures the extension of what we ordinarily think counts as erotic art.

He's saying that if we try, we'll come closer to it than we might ordinarily think possible.

Second, in the S′-rule, the subject is assumed to be a second-order predicate that is applied to the denotation of the VP (a monadic predicate) to yield a sentence intension, whereas we would ordinarily think of the subject-predicate semantics as being the other way around, with the VP-denotation being applied to the subject.

Note that we would not ordinarily think of orders or questions as even apt for assessment in terms of truth and falsity: they are not truth-apt.

Since we don't ordinarily think that day is the cause of night, or vice versa, Hume must deny that the two are actually constantly conjoined, or, rather, he must insist that the constant conjunction between the two of them is not of the right sort for the relation between them to be one of causation.

Although maps may sometimes involve words or symbols, nothing linguistic seems to be essential to the nature of map-like representation: Some maps are purely pictorial or combine pictorial elements with symbolic elements, like coloration to represent altitude, that we don't ordinarily think of as linguistic.