Sentences with phrase «only conceive»

Therefore, it's advantageous for men to identify female fertility through smell because women can only conceive in (roughly) the three days leading up to, and including, the day of ovulation.

Games in this genre can generally only conceive of nations or countries, those giant systems of governance that dominate our lives, as structures that produce bad byproducts at best.

Because the practice of transfusion and of organ transplantation are heavily regulated by medicine (and for good reason), a culture that considers human milk to be another regulated bodily substance can only conceive of milk sharing as an activity that occurs rarely and under medical supervision.

Believe it or not, you can ONLY conceive during your small fertile window and the actual day of ovulation.

Perhaps the defender of the doctrine, «God exists» is possible, need only conceive a set of circumstances to require Deity, while the opponent of the doctrine need only conceive a set of circumstances incompatible with divine existence, e.g., a completely evil universe.

It would be a disaster if today's European culture could only conceive freedom as absence of obligation, which would inevitably play intothe hands of fanaticism and arbitrariness.

On the one hand there are those who simply wish to make the world a comfortable dwelling - place; on the other hand, those who can only conceive of it as a machine for progress — or better, an organism that is progressing.

Owing to the disastrous confusion, more especially by Hume, of conceptual feelings with perceptual feelings, the truism that we can only conceive in terms of universals has been stretched to mean that we can only feel in terms of universals.

Just as matter is involved in determined relationships, so the intellect can only conceive of its object as involved in similarly necessary relations.

Like the other historians of his school, he can only conceive of liberalism as a stark world of possessive individuals, utterly indifferent to public things.

Quoting Whitehead, he indicates what he thinks might be the reason for this lack of understanding: «The truism that we can only conceive in terms of universals has been stretched to mean that we can only feel in terms of universals.»

That is, if we consecutively number each member of a standing class of infinite magnitude, we need only conceive of each member as awaiting a corresponding number.

In order to interpret this core - principle of revelation, we must understand its essential presupposition; namely, that events are present «in» other events - present not just abstractly (through «eternal objects»), i.e., mediated by the «general,» but as singular events that effect their further history by their unique concreteness (PR 338).12 Whitehead recognizes precisely this constellation when he says:» [T] he truism that we can only conceive in terms of universals has been stretched to mean that we can only feel in terms of universals.

Instead of trying to make Him out to be something that our / your little minds can only conceive, try reading and listening to what the God of the Bible says about His character.

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Conceived as a kind of online - only Whole Foods combined with a Costco - like warehouse club model, Green and fellow co-founder Gunnar Lovelace created the organic delivery company just two years ago.

Because our brains can conceive a future, we're wired to want to make progress toward it: our brain «tells us we will be happy only if we have some forward momentum in our lives,» Buchholtz argues.

Not only isn't there anywhere near enough bank capital in the US to supplant securitization, it is difficult to conceive that the universe of «rates» buyers will become mortgage credit buyers or move over to covered bonds (which default to the issuing bank's credit ratings), at least not at the same price levels and in the same size.

Only time and much more research in larger groups of women will determine whether the new technology will be an effective option for older women who have had trouble conceiving.

While perhaps his entrepreneurs deserve most of the credit for producing hilarious testimonials, Brad was the only VC at the event that conceived of engaging the audience with a video mashup.

Politico's Nicholas Vinocur reports, «During their discussions, an aide said that Macron had pressed the point that «we can not conceive of a trade war among allies,» and that France would only speak «in concert with Europe» on trade.

It had not occurred to me that anyone would imagine that the only alternative to a boundless confidence in reason's competency to extract moral truths from nature's evident forms, no matter what the prevailing cultural regime, is the belief that moral knowledge is the exclusive preserve of «revelation,» narrowly conceived as a body of inscrutable legislations irrupting into history from on high.

by Lori Gottlieb — a single mother who conceived her only child with donor sperm rather than miss out on motherhood as she has on marriage — is a frank and excruciatingly personal look into some of the sexual revolution's lonelier venues, including the creation of children by anonymous or absent sperm donors, the utter corrosiveness of taking a consumerist approach to romance, and the miserable effects of advancing age on one's sexual marketability.

Speaking only for myself, I believe that our time is limited — we are conceived, are born, live, and then die, and that's it.

Ramanuja was able adequately to relate the one and the many only by conceiving of brahman as essentially dynamic.

It can be plausibly argued that while it might appear that Plantinga's free - will defense is only relevant to moral evil, it actually has significant, necessary ramifications for how God's power can be conceived in relation to nature.

The suit alleges that the law gives the Ugandans standing to sue Lively for his activities, which had a crucial nexus in the U.S. and therefore come under federal courts» jurisdiction; it also charges that Lively not only advocated bad ideas in an abstract context but helped various Ugandans conceive and manage a campaign of persecution, thus involving himself in a joint criminal enterprise.

This is the only way God was conceived in Science and the Modern World.

Congregationalists conceived of their task as bringing the gospel and education to the masses; so they insisted on sending only fully educated pastors who represented not only the gospel but also the best in Christian civilization.

When God was conceived as caring only for the tribal group, only the tribal group was conceived as worth caring for, while the thought of God as the patron and lover of individuals was inevitably associated with the thought of individuals as clearly visualized centers of value.

But precisely because we are not self - contained ready - made entities which can be conceived equally well as being near to you or remote from you; precisely because in us the self - subsistent individual who is united to you grows only insofar as the union itself grows, that union whereby we are given more and more completely to you: I beg you, Lord, in the name of all that is most vital in my being, to hearken to the desire of this thing that I dare to call my soul even though I realize more and more every day how much greater it is than myself, and, to slake my thirst for life, draw me — through the successive zones of your deepest substance — into the secret recesses of your inmost heart.

The only people stupider than religious fundamentalists are secular fundamentalists who can't conceive that some scriptures were meant as metaphors.

We can only begin to imagine how its germinal idea was conceived.

But as conceived by Leibniz as a qualified substance, such perspectives are attributed to each monad internally, so that the interconnection between monads is only apparent; they are in actuality «windowless» and externally related, and in concord only by virtue of pre-established harmony.

Berger hastens to point out, however, that although secularism is our situation, this does not shed light on the truth or falsity of the supernatural per se, but only on the seeming incapacity of our contemporaries to conceive of it.

He never thought, after the Greek fashion, of soul as pure being, capable of disembodiment, but spoke, as his Jewish contemporaries did, of future life in terms of bodily resurrection, and on that basis he discussed life after death with the skeptical Sadducees, protesting only against the popular, contemporary ways of conceiving the raised body and its uses in the next world.

Not only are these ideas subjective, but as «simple,» they are conceived according to the analytic method of Descartes and Galileo, i.e., as atomic constituents externally related.

Certainly, it is really the only way most young people could possibly conceive of going to university.

Mistaken unscholarly understandings of this have sometimes been articulated as the suggestion that natural family planning is only permissible because «it doesn't work» or it's not entirely reliable, i.e. using such unreliable means implies that you must be subjectively «open» to the possibility of a child being conceived.

In Christian worship prayer is a natural accompaniment because God is conceived as a personal being, a loving Father with whom communication and response are not only a possibility but an appropriate expectation.

For that argument may perhaps amount to this, that perfection is conceivable only as the property of an existing individual, and not of merely possible individuals (whereas we may conceive the nature of Mr. Micawber, for example, as not in fact the nature of an existing man).

The answer is that our materialist is not, in truth, concieving of «thinking without an immaterial substance» but rather he conceives only of «thinking with matter present».

Perhaps God is perfect in whatever ways perfection can really be conceived; but some among the traditional theological ways of trying to conceive perfection are capable of producing only pseudo-concepts devoid of consistent meaning.

In some cases guilt adheres only to fantasized misdeeds that have been mentally conceived or imaginatively projected.

If what we are trying to understand here were only a peculiar intellectual difficulty in conceiving how time and eternity can be related, the problem would be an abstract one hardly worthy of special attention so far as the meaning of love is concerned.

We have already seen that while God is the greatest power, «that which none greater can be conceived,» God is not the only power, and that divine power always acts persuasively.

Great as is the significance of the emergence of self - conscious persons within the very fabric of the universe for any reflection on its possible meaning and purpose, this must not lead us to underplay the significance also of the rest of the universe and of all other living organisms to God as Creator — even though we are able to depict only in imagination the kind of delight that God may be conceived to have in the fecund multiplicity and variety or created forms.

Did not this realm become conceived only after the inner cosmological realm was made nearing a completion?

(When Macquarrie urged him to follow Tillich in using the philosophy of Being to reconstruct a purified theism, Bultmann could only confess: «I myself can not conceive of an ontological basis.»)

There is only one way we can legitimately conceive a set which is actually infinite to which items are being successively added.

God, if heretofore conceived as having only conceptual feelings, would then be unconscious (PR 343).