Tenet Definition

Tenet Sentence Examples

• Yet, in striking contrast to this orthodox tenet is his vivid conception of the weakness and misery of men, the hopelessness of the struggle with evil, whether in society or in the individual.

• He avers that this " metaphysic of experience " is not idealism, or the tenet that consciousness is the only reality.

• Immediately after the death of Huss many priests who refused to administer communion in the two kinds - now the principal tenet of the adherents of Huss - had been expelled from their parishes.

• The common tenet of the whole school is that without inference we immediately perceive the external world, at all events as a resisting something external to our organism.

• The tenet of its axial movement was held by many of his followers - in an obscure form by Philolaus of Crotona after the middle of the 5th century B.C., and more explicitly by Ecphantus and Hicetas of Syracuse (4th century B.C.), and by Heraclides of Pontus.