Sentences with phrase «seeming simple notions»

As for the responses, they are, by and large, useful, and tease out many of the subtleties that lie within seeming simple notions like «responsibility,» «capacity,» and «solidarity,» and «progressivity.»

On its surface, time seems a simple notion, the passing days measured in seconds, minutes and hours, but these man - made constructs are merely approximations of the earth's rotation around the sun.

Not exact matches

While the notion of relationships may seem simple, it's not.

«The notion that risk and return are related is so simple and so widely acknowledged that it hardly seems worth arguing about,» Wellington concludes.

The term «physical feeling» seems to be absent from «The Theory of Feelings» (III.1), except for one section (III.1.9), which could be a later insertion.9 Sometime during or just after writing «The Theory of Feelings» we may infer that Whitehead introduced the notion of «causal feelings» (III.2.2), which was then overruled by the more developed theory of «simple physical feelings» (III.2.1).

DE: This seems to me to be what his philosophy of organism should have gone for, and when he said he was trying to make this a bridge notion between the biological and physical sciences, I think the link is in his notion of the «non-uniform object» of which the simplest example is the wave.

The logic behind the notion was undeniably simple, but at first glance it seemed counterintuitive.

Maybe things were simpler back in the late 1980s and early»90s (which is starting to feel like a long time ago), but the notion of a Honda Civic made nicer and sportier doesn't seem so complicated, really.

There's this prevailing notion that it's simple to become a bestseller on Amazon, after all they make it so easy to publish that it seems success is inevitable, right?

At a time when technology makes anything seem possible, the two works by Janine Antoni and David Shrigley counter this notion by providing exacting instructions for folding the «simple» medium of paper that are impossible to realize (though it's fun to try!).

It's a simple notion, and it insinuates straightforward - seeming logic: prices are rising, presumably because oil is getting scarce, and if we drilled for more oil, it'd no longer be scarce!