Sentence examples for weaker views from inspiring English sources

Views counter to methodological adaptationism range from strong views that deny that adaptation is a good guiding concept to weaker views that privilege different explanations.

However, the label 'externalism' has been occasionally used for weaker views: a semantic account may be regarded as externalist if it takes semantic content to depend in one way or another on relations a computational system bears to things outside itself (Rey 2005; Borg 2012), irrespective of whether such relations affect the system's cognitive state.

Medical professionals with stronger views on the need to reform might have more enthusiastically responded to the survey, while those with weaker views might have chosen not to respond.

A weaker view of the requirements of democracy is defensible, namely that citizens must have a reasonable expectation to recognize when a policy is in their own interests.

"We are seeking to do it as quickly as we can, but I have to say to you that it will be easier to do after the election because, of course, people are being encouraged …there is a view that the Labor party will take a weaker view on border protection and all of the evidence suggests that they will and there are plenty of people who are saying to those on Manus and Nauru, 'Just wait.

This "strictness" would thus remain unexplained by the weaker view (Broome 1999).

One might instead suggest a weaker view: we have a reason to be instrumentally coherent as such.

Both the weaker view (with its more open ended reference to evidence) and the strict view (in principle confirmation) delimit meaningful discourse about the world.

Perhaps what is needed is a weaker view of the relation between health and goal-directedness, such as that offered by Whitbeck (1981, 620).

These findings support our expectations that students who viewed evolution as "strong" and well supported would be less likely to view ID as a superior alternative to evolution than those who held a "weaker" view of evolution.

A retributivist could take an even weaker view, that there is some positive value in punishing a wrongdoer for his wrongful acts, apart from any consequences that might arise from doing so.