Sentences with phrase «narrower meaning of the term»

We will not ignore that cultural in that narrower meaning of the term, but by culture we mean something more inclusive.

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There is, however, a narrower use of the term which is related to but not identical with this inclusive meaning.

He is, rather, a very complex structured society which sustains, among many other societies, a regnant, personally ordered, subordinate society (an enduring object) which Whitehead refers to as «the soul of which Plato spoke» (Adventures of Ideas 267 — see also pp. 263 - 264 for a clear statement of the distinction between «the ordinary meaning of the term «man,» which includes the total bodily man, and the narrow sense of «man,» where «man» is considered a person in Whitehead's technical sense, i.e., as the regnant, personally ordered society which he identifies as his equivalent of Descartes» thinking substance and Plato's soul).

I agree that my definition of «myth» is open to misunderstanding, but at the same time I am convinced that it is more satisfactory than the alternative you suggest («By «mythological» we mean the presentation of unobservable realities in terms of observable phenomena») For one thing, «observable» may prove too narrow a term and «unobservable» too broad, since all spiritual attitudes are unobservable.

For example, for the frequently used word «events» (used in describing natural phenomena in space - time coordinate systems) he substituted the term «actual occasions,» which for him gave a more accurate (and richer) picture of «real» or «concrete» happenings in the natural world.11 In this regard, he avoided the use of such commonly employed metaphysical terms such as «sensation» and «perception» — derived from seventeenth and eighteenth philosophers such as Locke, Berkeley, Hume and Kant — since for him they had a narrow psychological rather than appropriate epistemological meanings.

If accountability only means increased achievement scores, and if standards only focus on the acquisition of information, then we are using a very narrow view of those terms.

Unfortunately, the two meanings of the term have become blurred, with the narrow version of character education dominating the field to the point that it is frequently mistaken for the broader concept.

The term is meant to help articulate qualities of some painting, not as a way to narrow or define our practices.

There is «damn by faint praise» and Dr. Curry is engaging in «validating by faint criticism» by ignoring politically corrupt forces and limiting the discussion to narrow topics like «The Pause» or using terms such a «advocacy» rather than spelling out exactly what kind of advocacy we all know she means.

Climate - Climate in a narrow sense is usually defined as the average weather, or more rigorously, as the statistical description in terms of the mean and variability of relevant quantities over a period of time ranging from months to thousands or millions of years.

The judge rejected HMRC's argument that the absence of a statutory mechanism for valuing shares was an indication that the term «contributions paid» should be given a narrow meaning, holding that that argument was flawed in the context of assets being transferred in satisfaction of a specified monetary amount / debt.

The narrow issue before the Supreme Court was the meaning of the term «circumstances» and whether the lost opportunity for early release and parole in pre-sentence detention can be such a circumstance, capable of justifying enhanced credit at a rate of 1.5:1