How To Use human action In A Sentence
- Induction, a posteriori, would have brought phrenology to admit, as an innate and primitive principle of human action, a paradoxical something, which we may call perverseness, for want of a more characteristic term. The Imp of the Perverse
- A thousand generations had lived and died, an immense volume of history had been enacted, the heroes of all the ages, and almost those of our own time, had fulfilled their destinies and passed away, before it came about that a mere physical fact should fill a larger place in our lives than all examples, and that the evanescent vapor which we call steam should change daily, and effectively, the courses and modes of human action, and erect life upon another plane. Steam, Steel and Electricity
- The project has meanwhile advanced, however, and the research fellows have long since grown accustomed to speaking of technology in the sense of habitus, medium, infrastructure, and technostructures of society or human action.
- He had a powerful sense of the emptiness of his remembered landscape, animated only momentarily by human action; life becomes explicable as a diagrammatic series of gestures and relationships, "the underlying magic", as Miró described it, and he developed a way of painting that seemed to respond to those energies. Joan Miró: A life in paintings
- Hume defends the necessitarian point of view by arguing that all human actions are caused by antecedent motives.
- As species wither, the marine food chain could be disrupted; human action is needed to curtail further acidification.
- Upon which design of variety it is, that the poets never represent the same persons always victorious or prosperous or acting with the same constant tenor of virtue; — yea, even the gods themselves, when they engage in human actions, are not represented as free from passions and errors; — lest, for the want of some difficulties. and cross passages, their poems should be destitute of that briskness which is requisite to move and astonish the minds of men. Essays and Miscellanies
- Rejecting the quest for absolute certainty, it takes a meliorist attitude that human action sometimes can improve the world.
- Fortunately, I do not have to refute the labor theory of value, it's already been done, see Human Action by Mises.
- Speech, gesture, and every other form of human action are, in the long run, resolvable into muscular contraction, and muscular contraction is but a transitory change in the relative positions of the parts of a muscle.
