Sentences with phrase «accepted notions»

The ethical underpinnings of Collaborative Law are founded upon the accepted notions of limited representation and informed consent.

How does this undermine accepted notions of judicial immunity?

But tribal leaders at the Rocky Boy's Reservation in northern Montana apparently went too far astray from accepted notions of fairness when they adopted an anti-defamation ordinance Feb. 7 that allowed them to seize a defamer's personal property and permanently banish the offender from the reservation.

Throughout his career, Stella has challenged the boundaries of painting and accepted notions of style.

The Group's aim is to encourage the viewer to re-consider accepted notions of truth and history.

She dismisses accepted notions of silhouette or contour instead creating unique, bold and innovative forms.

These changing exhibitions are developed specifically to suggest new perspectives on art and invite fresh questions that expand accepted notions of history.

The exhibition explores multiple themes that challenge accepted notions of belonging and identity; the everyday and the fantastical; the past and the future; the public and the private.

From Uterus Man to LuYang Delusional Mandala, to her latest work Electromagnetic Brainology, Lu Yang's refreshing sense of absurd humor challenges accepted notions of contemporary art.

My own ambition, it always seemed to me, was to push all the accepted notions over the edge — like Kline, I really did believe that making something new was a command that I had to respond to.

Drawing loosely upon the American Realist tradition, Sherald subverts the medium of portraiture to tease out unexpected narratives, welcoming viewers into a more complex debate about accepted notions of race and representation, and situating black heritage centrally in the story of American art.

Her work subverted accepted notions of gender, sexuality, social class, and ethnicity, and was prophetic in anticipating the broader cultural concerns — postcolonialism, feminism, civil rights, multiculturalism, and globalization — that reached a crescendo in the 1960s and continue to be relevant today.

A survey of Wiley's career since 2001, this exhibition features 60 paintings and sculptures (a more recent pursuit) that riff on images from the art historical canon, challenging accepted notions of race, gender and representation.

The idea of investing in real estate early, especially if you have not yet purchased your first home, goes against the accepted notions of personal finance.

Hermann Hesse, Kafka and other writers convinced him there were ways to be fantastical without conforming to the generally accepted notions of fantasy.

Applying all of this to the passenger pigeon is challenging many widely accepted notions about the bird.

It also shows that your results are important and that you are challenging accepted notions.

«Early humans and dawn of human information sharing: Team challenges accepted notions of cultural transmission.»

Some of them have very little scientific evidence to substantiate them, and several of these accepted notions have been statistically tested with startling results in Sexual Preference; Its Development in Men and Women, by Alan P. Bell et al. (Indiana University Press, 1981).

In every age, people naturally form World Pictures that are syntheses of ideas derived from various sources - prevailing scientific theories, philosophical speculation, revealed truth, widely accepted notions, and «common sense».

In the end, the information may refute or confirm historical events, chronologies, context, and even debunk some accepted notions and rituals.

Economists have long accepted the notion that inflation can stay high or low simply because of public perceptions.

It was generally accepted notion if the USA was in a recession, other parts of the world be thriving during that same period.

That is why it is a commonly accepted notion.

Judaism does not accept the notion that was cooked up, and argued about, in early Christian councils, (the «trinity»).

Orthodox Christianity would seem to Davies ample enough to support this new life, but, whether through understandable caution or unthinking fear, it has always been indisposed to accept any notion of fullness that asks us not to cut off or pluck out what we identify as evil, but rather to know it wholly — as part of life, as part of holiness, as part even of God.

I can accept the notion that a God just exist, and if those want to play on that concept we can take it even further and say why could God not have come out of a Big Bang as well.

I would accept the notion that most persons in our culture, Christian and non-Christian alike, function in their daily lives, perhaps unconsciously, on the basis of the assumed absence of God in history.

This argument presupposes a false dilemma, as I see it, that either one accepts the notion of a separate soul - substance enduring through time or else one must accept the thesis of process philosophy.

If we furthermore accept the notion that these units are internally related, in the sense that the earlier drops of consciousness enter into the consciousness of subsequent drops, it follows that these units or drops of consciousness can not know themselves.

No, sin does not exist outside of the bible, thus no non-believer is gullible enough to accept that notion.

When you accept the notion that senseless death and destruction is a fact of life that can not be attributed to any supernatural force, you are taking the right step in the direction of healing.

For someone who simply does not believe in God, proof of non-existence is irrelevant, he / she simply does not accept the notion of God.

It might appear that if we describe the Christian life as process, we should have to accept the notion of a progressive achievement.

But to accept that notion one has to discard all that Matthew says in 6:1 - 18 about rewards.

Accepting the notion that biblical narratives are the product of many layers of oral tradition, they see scripture as paradigmatic of humanity's interpretation of the experience (there is no such thing as uninterpreted experience!)

Some scientists accept the notion that experience affects body functions but try to formulate the problem in a way that does not involve conflicts with thermodynamic laws.

Yet he is realistic about the distance which many of his seminary colleagues will have to travel before they will be willing to accept his notion of «the parish as paradigm.»

It's difficult to accept the notion that the things that are most characteristic of our lives should not be most central.

He accepted the notion that very different people could coexist in one family; that they could love one another, and that they could work for a common good.

What if someone does not accept the notion of a Triune God?

@jc,»... and atheists aren't willing to accept the notion that the kind of «evidence» they are searching for may not reasonably be expected.»

That each of the religions of the world is in some sense a distinct entity is a commonly accepted notion.

Palin accepted the notion with a «laying on of hands.»

He accepts the notion that the substantial unity of the composite substance can only be explained in terms of the notions of potency and act (PN 126 - 27).

You wholeheartedly accept the notion that a super complex creator just «exists» without any explanation at all, yet, you find it unreasonable that a universe could just «exist» without having been created.

Well, no serious art historian would accept the notion that the admittedly effeminate figure to Jesus» right in Leonardo Da Vinci's Last Supper is Mary Magdalene.

If he had been intellectually honest, he would have acknowledged that Buchanan accepts the notion that free trade among all nations is a desirable goal.

To take another example, one can scarcely imagine American Indians accepting the notion that a white European United States has an a priori right to exist because «God gave the Puritans this land,» to make a «city set on a hill.»

I'll accept the notion that JaMychal Green is an interesting prospect, but there's no reliable evidence that Adams can play at this level.