Sentences with phrase «on human knowledge»

Situated cognition: On human knowledge and computer representations.
So there is truth in the ancient texts, and those texts show that the truth evolved based on human knowledge evolving... and we know human knowledge always has it faults... but I refuse to believe more in Satan or whatever evil power makes people afraid to advance our understandings....
Atheists claim that, given the inherent limitations on human knowledge, there is no evidence supporting the existence of a god, and therefore we reject the claim that there is one.

Not exact matches

«This knowledge of human nature and its overlapping impact on trading gives them strategic advantage in building greater wealth through leverage.»
Cycorp charged itself with figuring out the tens of millions of pieces of data we rely on as humans — the knowledge that helps us understand the world — and to represent them in a formal way that machines can use to reason.
We humans do not rely on knowledge alone, but also draw upon our intuition and emotional intelligence.
On Tuesday the board issued a statement saying it had no previous knowledge of the sexual harassment and assault claims directed towards Weinstein and called his alleged conduct «antithetical to human decency.»
This theory states that a human will make decisions based on the limited knowledge they can accumulate.
Companies that are descriptively software enterprises — Google, Facebook (on whose board I serve), Twitter, Airbnb, Pinterest, and many others — have opened up human connections, access to knowledge, and new business models unforeseen before they existed.
Whether it was answers to the body and movement of water, the mechanics of the human heart and body, the motion of the planets or to discover why birds fly, or how the human eye perceives light and distant images, or why fossils are found on mountains, his quest for knowledge was extraordinary.
GET A CLUE: your «knowledge» is based on faith and the limits of human reason!
But it is reasonable to believe that an agnostic or atheist on this commentary will be reasonably fair enough to acknowledge that we are not at the apex of human knowledge, and have the humility that also acknowledge that while we all aspire to the knowledge of God, we don't have the math, language or tools to even come close to it.
He was certainly right to see the importance of human psychology, but just as he raced too quickly from the truth that knowledge rests on sensation to the conclusion that it is confined to it, so he assumed that we can only inhabit our psychology and not evaluate it.
It would be nice for her dogma - immersed professor to eventually arrive at what his student came to know so early in her life, that knowledge is gained from living life, and that knowledge can be more true right now than the human writings on the topic that only go back at most 5,000 years.
To not only claim to know there is a God but to claim you know his name and how he wants all his slave humans to behave is beyond hubris, it is self deification, claiming to know the mind of God, regardless of whether you rely on some ancient book for that knowledge or not.
It is in his Critique that he posits that a priori knowledge is possible only if the world itself depends on the way the human mind structures its experience, through insights Kant found by examining Copernican astronomy.
And while I'm grateful believers and unbelievers can agree that the taking of innocent human life is wrong, without a basis for this knowledge, this is a position can turn on a dime.
On November 29, Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone, secretary of state, wrote to Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad bin Talal of Jordan, the chief organizer of the letter of the 138, on behalf of the pope: «Common ground allows us to base dialogue on effective respect for the dignity of every human person, on objective knowledge of the religion of the other, on the sharing of religious experience, and, finally, on common commitment to promoting mutual respect and acceptance among the younger generatioOn November 29, Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone, secretary of state, wrote to Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad bin Talal of Jordan, the chief organizer of the letter of the 138, on behalf of the pope: «Common ground allows us to base dialogue on effective respect for the dignity of every human person, on objective knowledge of the religion of the other, on the sharing of religious experience, and, finally, on common commitment to promoting mutual respect and acceptance among the younger generatioon behalf of the pope: «Common ground allows us to base dialogue on effective respect for the dignity of every human person, on objective knowledge of the religion of the other, on the sharing of religious experience, and, finally, on common commitment to promoting mutual respect and acceptance among the younger generatioon effective respect for the dignity of every human person, on objective knowledge of the religion of the other, on the sharing of religious experience, and, finally, on common commitment to promoting mutual respect and acceptance among the younger generatioon objective knowledge of the religion of the other, on the sharing of religious experience, and, finally, on common commitment to promoting mutual respect and acceptance among the younger generatioon the sharing of religious experience, and, finally, on common commitment to promoting mutual respect and acceptance among the younger generatioon common commitment to promoting mutual respect and acceptance among the younger generation.
YOU:: Shld the modern world ignore the new knowledge that's available to us on the subject of human sexuality?
Shld the modern world ignore the new knowledge that's available to us on the subject of human sexuality?
The reason you can't refute my arguments is not that demons are helping me compose them, but that they are based on sound logic and knowledge of human behavior, not fairytales and wholly unprovable claims.
Faith as underlying rationality: In this view, all human knowledge and reason is seen as dependent on faith: faith in our senses, faith in our reason, faith in our memories, and faith in the accounts of events we receive from others.
Since His desire is that every single human on earth be saved and come to a full knowledge of the truth, may we pray and work to that end, trusting in His power, crying out for His grace and mercy.
Our brains no doubt work on the same patterns as other brains in nature, but the human quest for knowledge is not just bounded by the needs of survival.
Knowledge which depends on human experience and traditions related to the Prophet concerning such matters are not the basis for Islamic legislation.
kermit — Concerning the teacher analogy, if a teacher (or any other human) tells you something you don't automatically believe — you evaluate it, you run it through your own personal bs filter based on your current knowledge and experiences, etc..
Can it not be more widely recognized that we are all in the human predicament together and that the pooling of knowledge and experience might lead to considerably more light being shed on the business of living which faces every one of us.
A little knowledge of philosophy is also of help, particularly as Descartes» theories are presented as throwing doubt on the nature of human identity.
Sir Rudolf Peierls, another leading twentieth «century physicist, said, on the basis of quantum theory, «The premise that you can describe in terms of physics the whole function of a human being... including its knowledge, and its consciousness, is untenable.
In his encyclical letter on the importance of St. Thomas» work, Pope Leo also alluded to the Church's need to maintain a deep study of science: «When the Scholastics, following the teaching of the Holy Fathers, everywhere taught throughout their anthropology that the human understanding can only rise to the knowledge of immaterial things by things of sense, nothing could be more useful for the philosopher than to investigate carefully the secrets of Nature, and to be conversant, long and laboriously, with the study of physical science.»
Primary oral cultures rely on the living human memory to store knowledge in formulary expressions.
Religious people speak of God when human knowledge (perhaps simply because they are too lazy to think) come to an end, or when human resources fall — in fact it is always the deus ex machina that they bring on to the scene, either for the apparent solution of insoluble problems, or as strength in human failure — always, that is to say, exploiting human weakness or human boundaries.11
Second, if our knowledge of God is based exclusively on the history of Jesus Christ and not on pre-Christian philosophies, then the human attributes of Christ in time also tell us what God is in his very nature and being as God.
Though he denied having much knowledge of religious doctrines and affairs, he nevertheless displayed a deeply human sensitivity that made of his comic artistry something considerably more than an occasional tickle on the periphery of our existence.
To speak about God the Holy Trinity in the midst of the modern world, we have to speak also, in part at least, about human philosophical knowledge of God, about God's simplicity, eternity, immutability, infinity, and so on.
But when it came time to change his mind and lift the curse he put on all mankind because two people wanted knowledge, he required a human sacrifice, no less than his own son.
His conviction that this can be accomplished rests upon his faith in God on the one side and logical rigor on the other — his belief that his tools are indeed adequate (for humans to have the kind of knowledge humans can have); that our knowledge of God, although partial, is really knowledge of God as God is.
Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.
Humans still can not fly on their own power, but have amassed the knowledge necessary to do so with the aid of aircraft, parachutes, paragliders, etc..
The relationship of the finite creature with the supremely worshipful and unsurpassable deity is being affirmed; and along with it there is also affirmed the possibility of its becoming on occasion a matter of conscious knowledge on the part of the human, as it is always a present reality in the very nature of God himself.
But on the whole, the oldline churches supported the right of scientists to advance human knowledge even when that required revisions of Christian teaching.
Paul did not need human knowledge or wisdom, he did not even rely on his knowledge but instead fully, in faith relied on the power of the cross to change people's hearts.
I'm basing this on no more evidence than a little history, a lot of experience and an actor's knowledge of human nature.
(This analogy is essential in spite of Brunner's emphasis on the different origins and character of our knowledge of God and of other human persons.
The ancient human civilizations gradually developed by the conserving and handing on of the knowledge and practices which had proved themselves in the past.
... salvation only in Christ and that redemption is available to all ----- If it's «available to all», how do you explain the large number of human beings on earth at this very moment with no knowledge of Christ?
In biology, on the other hand, knowledge of human nature is an important explicit aim of inquiry.
The human mind is not a blank page on which the record of encounters with reality is written nor, on the other hand, is our knowledge the result of purely internal processes of rational reflection.
Jennifer Moorcroft brings her great understanding and knowledge of the spiritual life to produce a work that not only brings Therese's world closer to us, but makes us also glimpse longingly at the effects of grace on the human soul.
So I guess you would be fine with a student at a high school graduation getting up to the podium and saying «I would like to take this moment to reflect on how strength of will and character helped all of us to graduate today, and please join with me for a moment of reflection at how amazingly the human race has evolved, to this point of passing on our collective knowledge to each new class, and to hope that we add to it, for if we do not, the future may be very dim.
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