Sentences with phrase «commonly accepted views»

Woelffer came of age at a time when the dreamy philosophy of Surrealism merged with the individual angst of the Abstract Expressionists as well as the distinctly modern ideas of European expatriates who came to America and transformed commonly accepted views of art.

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Preliminary questionnaires designed to gauge their significance, popularity, and influence produce inaccurate results, because respondents to these questionnaires prefer to voice «commonly accepted» points of view that may not coincide with what they believe.

I maintained that, contrary to the commonly expressed or tacitly accepted view, the era of active evolution did not end with the appearance of the human zoological type: for by virtue of his acquirement of the gift of individual reflection Man displays the extraordinary quality of being able to totalize himself collectively upon himself, thus extending on a planetary scale the fundamental vital process which causes matter, under Certain conditions, to organize itself in elements which are ever more complex physically, and psychologically ever more centrated.

Society itself closely reflected the commonly accepted Christian view of the individual man as a combination of a visible body and an invisible soul.

Jesus was Jewish in every way, but often argued for a very different interpretation and application of Scripture than what was commonly accepted as the «majority view.»

Even the commonly accepted mathematical view, developed by Georg Cantor, may not have truly placed infinity on a rigorous foundation