Sentences with phrase «about a reality which»

One insight provided by Hartshorne's work on the ontological argument is that the concept of the existence of God is something akin to a regulative idea for the rational thought about reality which is attempted in Hartshorne's metaphysics.

This is not to say that nothing is known, but simply that caution must be used in talking about a reality which has only recently become the subject of scientific research.

All we see is the shadows of our own consciousness, and all we can do is to draw inferences about the reality which lies behind them and produces the effect.

Conversely, believer are doing exactly what atheist tell us we are doing by speaking to them about a reality which they can not fathom.

Not exact matches

The narrative reveals more about today's hyper - partisan discourse than about the reality of the new tax law, which is likely to affect jobs and the economy in important ways that don't fit either party's talking points.

In October, Hammond was forced to deny that he would resign as chancellor, after tensions within the cabinet arose from his repeated warnings about the «economic realities» of Brexit, which many pro-Leave ministers saw as overly pessimistic.

Rob Kardashian's family hasn't made any official comments about the reality star's July 5 social media attack of Blac Chyna, in which he shared explicit photos of his ex-fiancée with millions of followers on Instagram and Twitter.

More interesting than the headline - grabbing claim about extending life was the method of combining search engine data with wearable data to investigate the bodily impacts of augmented reality gaming, which mixes reality with computer graphics.

After reading about Tan Le, the co-founder of Emotiv, and her vision of a world in which machines respond to our mental commands using implanted sensors [«Reality Bites,» December 2008], I couldn't help thinking that this is the same kind of hype Dean Kamen engaged in when he predicted that entire cities would one day be built around the Segway.

Be it with nonsensical assertions or statements (which either have zero basis in fact or reality, or are just a one - dimensional, self - promotional view on things), or random what - about ism arguments (one response to the launch of a social enterprise incubator in Dubai was essentially, «What about Yemen?»)

The tape, in which Trump boasted about sexually assaulting women, sent the Republican Party into a panic as party leaders and donors pressured the Republican National Committee to force the former reality - TV star off the ticket.

To me, there was nothing greater that I could build than something that would change the reality in our healthcare system today, which is that when someone you love gets really, really sick, usually by the time you find that out, it's too late to be able to do something about it.

His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

An interesting news has emerged about the Google Daydream Virtual Reality platform which could have a significant impact on the future of the VR and VR headset industry.

While we do not all necessarily agree with the manner in which he dealt with the conclusion of the Hillary Clinton email investigation, we sincerely believe that his abrupt and belated termination for this conduct, occurring months later and on the heels of his public testimony about his oversight of the investigation of Russian interference with the 2016 presidential election, has the appearance — if not the reality — of interfering with that investigation.

In fact, up until very recently governance researchers have not asked any sort of questions about the extent to which the governance realities of family firms are the same or different from their counterparts.

Reality, This is precisely what Scripture reveals about Jesus: «He is the image of the invisible God, the first - born of all creation» (Colossians 1:15)... which fits nicely with what you said the Saint Ignatius of Antioch said, the bishop is typos tou Patros: he is like the living image of God the Father».

It is a reality that we must confess, but it is a reality about God and his relationship to creation, not the means by which he created the creation.

Which means we're centered on the gospel, the good news about the historical reality of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Yet we seem increasingly unable to conduct a political dialogue out of which might develop a consensus about how to respond to this reality.

If Grisez - Finnis mean to expand their influence out of that corner, they are going to have to persuade people to believe the assumptions about ultimate reality on which their enterprise rests.

Check out this link to find out about marriage to young girls claim.Very very interesting to know.I hope everyone has the patience to study history and reality of life centuries ago worldwide.This video also gives you references to online history books about facts it says.Simply, the average age of marriage was very young worldwide including church approved age of consent to marry.What Mohamed did, was very common back in the days and just to let you know, that girl was engaged to another man and then the engagement was broken due to his disbelief which tells you that that was common back in the days.Also, the age of 6 mentioned was age of engagement not age of marriage.marriage happened a few years later.

Yes — and I think there is something in our human nature that is about survival that while a good and necessary thing to have can when mixed with none of us being perfect lead us to perceptions and magical thinking which may or may not be in touch with reality.

The cosmology of a people, its common sense, is thus foundational for it, the solid ground upon which its meanings, its presumptions about reality and its sense of purpose, rest.

@ Derrick Yu, This actually may come as a shocker, but there are believers out there who still continue to ask questions about God, about the Universe, and so forth, and unlike certain atheists out there who if they can't get definite answers to just come to conclusions that can not be verified like conclude that there is no God, at least there are believers out there who at least are willing to at least be open to the possibility that there is a God, and from there they develop their faith, which even though is not a perfect knowledge, at least can help keep those minds open, unlike certain atheists who take the easy way out and convincing themselves that it is a fact that there is no God, when in reality it is not a fact at all.

Clearly, for Farrow, this - worldly understanding of time and space is at best analogically suitable for speaking about that astounding reality for which we aim.

Some Calvinist evangelicals talk about a Federal Vision in which the worldwide church of Jesus Christ is an objective spiritual reality.

That's a complicated question for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is the reality that Christians themselves disagree on exactly what constitutes «biblical principles about marriage»!

One must have felt deeply the pain of being plunged into that multiplicity which swirls about one and slips through one's fingers if one is to be worthy of experiencing the rapture that transports the soul when, through the influence of the universal Presence, it perceives that reality has become not merely transparent but solidly enduring.

Hence a whole domain of reality is closed to them, beyond all possibility of access: a domain in which we for our part can move about freely.

«The more I talk about it, the more I find that people's eyes are open to the reality — which is that over 2 million noncustodial moms are in America right now, and it is definitely increasing,» Sp «icuglia said.

The people whose interpretations of experience we are studying are not Trobiand Islanders, but Jews of the first - century Mediterranean world; to understand how they interpret their lives, we need to learn as much as possible about the properly historical realities within which they lived: the social and symbolic worlds of Roman rule, Hellenistic culture, and a variegated Judaism.

So far as I know, this is the only rigorous formal classification (which as formal and a mere classification is beyond intelligent controversy) of possible doctrines about God — except mere dichotomies (e.g., God is or is not eternal, one with all reality, etc.), which are never very helpful because only one of the two classes has positive content.

Many atheists I would say wouldn't mind the concept of a god being real and heaven etc... But we aren't willing to ignore reality to stroke a belief which is not plausible in light of evidence and what we understand already about reality.

The reality is that those really concerned about human dignity are those who are willing to place faith in moral absolutes which safeguard that dignity against the uncertainties of cultural trends.

If you think about the Song of Miriam or those dangerous songs (many of which are in the mouths of women), we are invited to join that kind of singing which is a refusal to accept the dominant definitions of reality.

But my basic convictions about them were derived not from these philosophers but partly from my being surrounded from birth with the reality in question; partly from Emerson's essays and the works of James and Royce; partly from the poems of Shelley and Wordsworth (which similarly influenced Whitehead); and most of all from my own experience, reflected upon especially during my two years in the army medical corps, when I had considerable leisure to think about life and death and other fundamental questions.

However, when it comes to the various resurrection stories it becomes difficult to make any claims about the specific nature of what actually happened.5 What is important, of course, is the reality to which these accounts bear witness.

The point on which both philosophers and scientists have differed is whether only natural science tells us about reality or whether there is a reality beyond that which science can reach.

First, though most Christians do not speak hatefully toward others or about others, the sad reality is that the media and the internet gives such examples of hate speech from Christians way more publicity than it deserves, which in turn gives the impression that this is the way all Christians are, which is not true.

It is not so common as those undertakings about which the crowd shouts and clamors, for each participant is in reality alone with himself, but yet in the highest and most inclusive sense, edification is a common human concern.

In order to speak truthfully about God's mercy, you have to know the reality of that for which he has mercy.

Further «A «process theology» that is true to Whiteheadian (and Hartshornean) insights does not provide a case for affirming certain limited affirmations about the reality of God which are then to be augmented by a distinct kind of «revelational theology.»

is simply too ingrained, too much a part of what sin is all about, for us not to feel vexed when reminders come of the opposite reality, which it is precisely the office of religion to provide: «Accordingly, it has always been the office of Religion to protest against the sophistry of Satan, and to preserve the memory of those truths which the unbelieving heart corrupts: both the freedom and the responsibility of man, the sovereignty of the Creator, the supremacy of the law of conscience as His representative within us, and the irrelevancy of external circumstances in the judgment which is ultimately to be made upon our conduct and character.»

It is the distance between the abstract concept and concrete reality, between reason which as such can grasp expressly only what is universal or the universal in the individual, and freedom which concerns and brings about the individual as such.

The new reality which broke into human experience in the person of Jesus becomes more distinct not through new conceptions about a transcendent reality, but through the growing experience of the power of that reality to bring transformation and healing in daily life.

In a letter sent to his son North on August 22, 1927, Whitehead talks about the book which would become Process and Reality: «It seems years and years since I wrote to you.

My encouragement to you is to not worry too much about which forms new followers choose to keep or cast aside, but to focus on developing the transforming life of Christ inside them (breath and reality) and let the Spirit show them how to express what's inside in a way their community can understand.

We should use the symbol God «functionally,» to refer not to any particular ideas about God «but rather to that reality whatever it might be which draws us on toward full and responsible humaneness.»

3Eslick points out that at the crucial passage in Process and Reality in which Whitehead says Descartes» concept of substance is a true derivative from Aristotle's, Whitehead refers the reader not to Aristotle's Categories but to W. D. Ross's book about Aristotle (SCCW 504).