How do you use Contractarian in a sentence? See 3 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Contractarian in a sentence
Contractarian meaning
Relating to contractarianism
Using Contractarian
- The main meaning on this page is: Relating to contractarianism
Context around Contractarian
- Average sentence length in these examples: 32.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 0 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 3 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Contractarian
- In this selection, "contractarian" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 32.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, social, argument, basically and methodology stand out and add context to how "contractarian" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a social contractarian basically meaning and argues the contractarian argument is. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "contractarian" sits close to words such as aabc, aacr and aacsb, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with contractarian
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Hobbes was a social contractarian Basically meaning: the people of a society are prepared give up some rights to a government in order to receive social order. (27 words)
As Pateman argues: The contractarian argument is unassailable all the time it is accepted that abilities can 'acquire' an external relation to an individual, and can be treated as if they were property. (33 words)
Nevertheless, many (though not all) elements of Hobbes's political thought were unchanged between The Elements of Law and Leviathan, which demonstrates that the events of the English Civil War had little effect on his contractarian methodology. (37 words)
Nevertheless, many (though not all) elements of Hobbes's political thought were unchanged between The Elements of Law and Leviathan, which demonstrates that the events of the English Civil War had little effect on his contractarian methodology. (37 words)
As Pateman argues: The contractarian argument is unassailable all the time it is accepted that abilities can 'acquire' an external relation to an individual, and can be treated as if they were property. (33 words)
Hobbes was a social contractarian Basically meaning: the people of a society are prepared give up some rights to a government in order to receive social order. (27 words)
Example sentences (3)
As Pateman argues: The contractarian argument is unassailable all the time it is accepted that abilities can 'acquire' an external relation to an individual, and can be treated as if they were property.
Hobbes was a social contractarian Basically meaning: the people of a society are prepared give up some rights to a government in order to receive social order.
Nevertheless, many (though not all) elements of Hobbes's political thought were unchanged between The Elements of Law and Leviathan, which demonstrates that the events of the English Civil War had little effect on his contractarian methodology.