Sentences with phrase «only the certainty of»

While Rationalism accepts only the certainty of principles, maxims, and rules, Oakeshott's conservatism needs no foundational principles to anchor it.

Such a view is based on a hermeneutic of doubt, the only certainty of which becomes the unreliability of early Church interpretations of what are branded dubious events.

The Stanley Parable is the «Being John Malkovich» of video games, a complex and shapeless digital creature, that we will play over and over again, sometimes staying with raised eyebrows and a sea of questions, with the only certainty of having experienced something as much surreal as poetic.

Only the certainty of more laughs around the corner keeps viewers in their seats.

Only the certainty of craftsmanship holds the game together, a certainty that provides the keystone upon which the rest of the chaos is built.

Not exact matches

We can say with absolute certainty that the amount of available data is only going to grow, and the platforms that we use for social listening (Howard's Sprout Social among them) are only going to get more robust.

In a statement, Toshiba said Wednesday it determined that the consortium «presented the best proposal, not only in terms of valuation, but also in respect to certainty of closing, retention of employees, and maintenance of sensitive technology within Japan.»

For the site examples you used, there might have been a correlation between social signals and increased rankings, but can you tell with certainty that social signals were they the only factors out of hundreds that actually CAUSED the increased rankings?

The quarterly cash payout from dividend stocks is one of the only certainties in the stock market and have accounted for about 40 % of the long - term return on stocks.

And that's not only in the US, that's in Europe in particular, certainly in the UK, and it's difficult I think to have a certainty around it but I think our bias is that bonds are on the expensive side at the moment and we are generally in most developed markets running shy of benchmark duration positions.

As interesting a concept as NEO is, there's only one certainty in the future of NEO: no one knows exactly where it's going.

For example, if an asset's price is wildly going up and down, you might have no clue about where the price will be a half of an hour from now, but you can say with a degree of certainty that the touch price will probably touched upon, even if it is for only a very brief moment.

You can only ever produce a high level of certainty that there is not.

He knew that the world He made was in a desperate place of devastation, endless tragedy and wanton violence, in which death was the only certainty.

In science there are no absolutes, only degrees of certainty with regard to that which is known.

Since, too, they have no certainty of the doctrines they profess, they do but feel they ought to believe them, and they try to believe them, and they nurse the offspring of their reason, as a sickly child, bringing it out of doors only on fine days....

But mostly what is needed at Princeton now is a moment or two of calm, for there is a chance ¯ only a chance, and not by any means a certainty ¯ that the emails were generated by one of the recipients and the assault was self - inflicted.

So that being said, if I think someone is delusional for their certainty in god, how do you think I feel when that same individual says «and not only that, but I have this list of 10 things he doesn't want me to do, and I know what happens when I die, and I know jesus took away our sins, and I know Mary was a virgin but got pregnant anyway, and I know he turned water into wine...» and on and on ad nauseum.

The erosion of confidence in the certainty of moral knowledge has been developing for some four centuries, although it has come to widespread notice only in the past three generations.

For the sake of argument, if the article (which I didn't read) used only words that left no room for doubt (in a sense saying «We know with 100 % certainty that...), would you accept the conclusions?

Only faith derived from Christian preaching is able to deduce the certainty of God acting upon us even from those fragments, which otherwise would remain only a small part of the history of ideas, and quite a problematic part at that.&raOnly faith derived from Christian preaching is able to deduce the certainty of God acting upon us even from those fragments, which otherwise would remain only a small part of the history of ideas, and quite a problematic part at that.&raonly a small part of the history of ideas, and quite a problematic part at that.»

For it can recover its certainty only if it is prepared to think through to the bitter end the possibility of its own impossibility or superfluity.

With typical use rates like that, even if the girl was only coming to Planned Parenthood for a prescription, it was a certainty that some of her classmates who came for contraception would find themselves considering whether to return for an abortion.

Not only are the meager materials in the Gospels which deal with his earlier life obviously legendary and late, but even within the brief compass of his public career no certainty is possible as to the order of events and little as to the historicity of a great many particular events.

Whether one is speaking of a causal necessity or only of a foreknown certainty, he argued, «has not the slightest pertinence» to the issue: whether choice X could not happen (the definition of contingency)(FG 304).

The final proofs of logic and mathematics flow deductively from stated premises and achieve certainty only because they are not about the empirical world.

The final proofs of logic and mathematics flow deductively from stated premises and achieve certainty only because they are NOT about the empirical world.

In the present field of discussion the only points of certainty seem to be these: (a) both creation and redemption establish the equality of men and women before God, as both image bearers and children of God through Christ (Gen. 1:26 - 27; Gal.

The second gospel furnishes only an incomplete and at times a confused record of Jesus» ministry, but its account is sufficient to establish the main lines on which Jesus conducted the major part of his ministry with some degree of certainty.

That the Lord is nigh, that the believer is standing at the end of time and history — is only a way of expressing the ultimacy and the certainty of the truth and reality which the Christian confesses in faith.

But what critics who point to these reasons for the loss of certainty seem too often to forget is that the Church is never only a function of a culture nor ever only a supercultural community; that the problem of its ministers is always how to remain faithful servants of the Church in the midst of cultural change and yet to change culturally so as to be true to the Church's purpose in new situations.

This opinion is perverted not because there is no divine becoming in the immanence, but because only through the primal certainty of divine being can we come into contact with the mysterious meaning of divine becoming, the self - division of God in creation and His participation in the destiny of its freedom.

From a finite set of particular observations one can not derive a universal generalization with certainty (the much debated logic of induction can provide no inferential grounds for making assertions about all cases when only a particular group of cases has been examined).

Before laying out his own categoreal scheme he warns the reader that all such formal schemes are strictly speaking false, due to an irremediable partiality of formulation.36 He explains in the same context that the only» reason a categoreal scheme is even needed is to prevent philosophers from thinking too much like mathematicians regarding the clarity; completeness and certainty of their activities.37 Bergson would heartily agree.

Circumstantial evidence against the accused man must not only lead consistently, step by step, to a conclusion of his guilt; it must also «exclude to a moral certainty every other reasonable hypothesis.»

Steele, a Protestant, in a Dedication tells the Pope, that the - only difference between our two Churches in their Opinions of the Certainty of their Doctrine, is, the Romish Church is infallible, and the Church of England is never in the Wrong.

Writes Dark, «It is only when we're blessed by a feeling of finitude that we can begin to perceive the holy, that sense of a whole before which our limited understanding is dwarfed... Only a twisted, unimaginative mind - set resists awe in favor of self - satisfied certainty... More humility might characterize our talk of God if we believe that the whole truth can never be entirely ours and that our attempts to nail God down are always well - intentioned human constructs at best and idols at worst.&raonly when we're blessed by a feeling of finitude that we can begin to perceive the holy, that sense of a whole before which our limited understanding is dwarfed... Only a twisted, unimaginative mind - set resists awe in favor of self - satisfied certainty... More humility might characterize our talk of God if we believe that the whole truth can never be entirely ours and that our attempts to nail God down are always well - intentioned human constructs at best and idols at worst.&raOnly a twisted, unimaginative mind - set resists awe in favor of self - satisfied certainty... More humility might characterize our talk of God if we believe that the whole truth can never be entirely ours and that our attempts to nail God down are always well - intentioned human constructs at best and idols at worst.»

Would not of a certainty science, technology and industrialism develop, mature and so only increase in extent?

Only the human espousing it with a false sense of certainty.

If we reflect on this chain we can never point to one of its links and say with absolute certainty: this is due only to my free and responsible decision.

The Judges were only a little lower, for the spirit came powerfully upon them and they acted, so we are expected to believe, in certainty of their divine guidance.

He would only find himself in opposition to the attitude of reserve expressed in the Encyclical if he were to claim for his theory such certainty that any further right of the magisterium to speak would be absolutely excluded from the start.

This reality makes us aware that every narrow definition of Christian doctrinal certainty will finally have to be abandoned; every claim by any branch of the Christian church to be the true church or the only church will ultimately have to be sacrificed; every doctrine of infallibility — whether of the papacy, or of the Scriptures, or of any sacred tradition, or of any individual experience — will inevitably have to be forgotten.

Rollins writes, «A faith that only exist in the light of victory and certainty is one which really affirms the self while pretending to affirm Christ... Only a genuine faith can embrace doubt, for such a faith does not act because of a self - interested reason (such as fear of hell or desire for heaven) but acts simply because it must.&raonly exist in the light of victory and certainty is one which really affirms the self while pretending to affirm Christ... Only a genuine faith can embrace doubt, for such a faith does not act because of a self - interested reason (such as fear of hell or desire for heaven) but acts simply because it must.&raOnly a genuine faith can embrace doubt, for such a faith does not act because of a self - interested reason (such as fear of hell or desire for heaven) but acts simply because it must.»

The «agnostic society» is a society in which every man is his own arbiter of what is «reason» or «nature», and in which the only certainties to draw from in this unending debate are scientific, positivist, facts.

The phenomenon of relativity not only denies the absoluteness of time and space; it also undermines the certainty of our knowledge and the absoluteness of the values and purposes by which we live.

Only by a comprehension of the changes which are befalling us can we be sufficiently prepared for a new religious certainty.

This course provides clarity about the gospel.By taking this course, you will not only gain certainty of your own eternal life in Jesus Christ, but will also learn what the gospel is and how to evangelize others,

When we write about an art or skill we often write only about its technique, because this has an appearance of certainty.

Instead, faith is for him the power, in particular moments of life, to take seriously the conviction of the omnipotence of God; it is the certainty that in such particular moments God's activity is really experienced; it is the conviction that the distant God is really the God near at hand, if man will only relinquish his usual attitude and be ready to see the nearness of God.