Sentences with phrase «about the fundamental nature»

If, as Zennists claim, such endeavors lead us to learn something about the fundamental nature of our own experience, they might also lead us to learn something about the fundamental nature of God's experience.

However, if it has a truly worthwhile content, we may at least look to it for some illumination about the fundamental nature of the universe, as well as for some vision of the natural world and our relation to it that would provide good reasons why we should care for it at all.

«Because of the dearth of experimentation, theories about the fundamental nature of affection have evolved at the level of observation, intuition, and discerning guesswork, whether these have been proposed by psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, physicians, or psychoanalysts,» he noted.

As the question hints, to fully answer this we need to understand something about the fundamental nature of space - time.

An international team of astronomers has looked at something very big — a distant galaxy — to study the behavior of things very small — atoms and molecules — to gain vital clues about the fundamental nature of our entire Universe.

By the time Risk was published in 1983, cognitive psychology had achieved a degree of consensus about the fundamental nature of academic skills.

«In a world saturated with spectacle and the kind of augmented reality made possible through the digital, Irwin's work, by contrast, raises critical questions about the fundamental nature of how and what we perceive and the value of «looking at... Continued

«In a world saturated with spectacle and the kind of augmented reality made possible through the digital, Irwin's work, by contrast, raises critical questions about the fundamental nature of how and what we perceive and the value of «looking at and seeing all of those things that have been going on all along but previously have been too incidental or meaningless to really enter into our visual structure, our picture of the world.

The works in this exhibition illustrate enduring artistic concerns with the sublime, transcendence, and questions about the fundamental nature of reality.

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When boiled down to its most fundamental nature, market making is about «buying cheaply and selling dearly.»

Your are making two fundamental logical errors, while also showing that you know nothing about the nature of serving in the military

The philosophical significance of his own attitude to transgenderism seems lost on him: Transgenderism raises fundamental questions about the nature of the human person — indeed, about whether one can even speak in terms of human nature anymore in any universal, meaningful sense.

What frequently passes for modern science» with its heavy accretion of materialism and positivism» is simply wrong about nature in fundamental ways.

Despite some of his protests against the Reformed, Dawson's fundamental convictions about the social nature of the human person resonates with Abraham Kuyper's argument that the organic nature of life is the foundation of the social or ecclesial organisms that come after it.

In metaphysics, issues of realism and antirealism are relevant to Whitehead's fundamental attitude, as well as questions about the nature and identity conditions for events.

By virtue of his own research Sullivan arrived at the same fundamental vision about the nature of reality that Whitehead professed and molded it quite independently into a viable personality theory, suitable for use in psychotherapy.

In other words, is there some basic methodology for going about the process of thinking about a fundamental philosophical problem such as the nature of tyranny?

This American - centered view is peculiar, given Greider's fundamental argument about the daunting, impersonal and, now transnational nature of economic forces.

This idea was in sharp contrast with Parmenides, who suggested in his poem about nature that «being» was prior to «becoming,» and that underlying every change was some more fundamental reality that endured.

Such an account is inevitably conditioned by the historian's scale of values and by his fundamental convictions about human nature.

Everything else we worry about, shake a stick at, scold in dismay is symptomatic to our fundamental nature.

Fundamental moral commitments may be at stake, creating conflict not just about one's individual life, but about the very nature of society.

It was, more precisely, based on a thinking through — although, in a way, a distortion — of Locke's fundamental premises about human nature by Rousseau.

Looking at these passages it is clear that the authors were investigating fundamental questions about the nature of reality, and seeking for ultimate principles that would explain its existence and nature.

Similarly, Charles Birch of Sydney spoke on «Creation, Technology and Human Survival» and told the Assembly that our goal must be a just and sustainable society; and this demands a fundamental change of heart and mind about humankind's relation to nature.

In fact, «the more the elementary particle physicists tell us about the nature of the fundamental laws, the less relevance they seem to have to the very real problems of the rest of science, much less of society.»

This is the heart of what came to be known as «the social question,» which raises fundamental queries about human nature and the possibilities for pursuing life in common.

I agree without reservation to theses three through five, and I also agree with thesis six («Consideration of these goods ought to respect the conjugal nature and reproductive potential of the most fundamental sexual act») but with worries about what «most fundamental» means, and unclarity about what «conjugal nature and reproductive potential» means.

The difficulty is rooted in certain fundamental unclarities about the American political experience and the nature of the American regime, unclarities that go back to the formative period of the republic.

It later explained, «While Islam and Christianity are both monotheistic, we believe there are fundamental differences between the two faiths, including what they teach about God's revelation to humanity, the nature of God, the path to salvation, and the life of prayer.»

We've talked about the god hypothesis for a few thousand years, and it's had an effect on social dynamics but not on understanding the fundamental nature of the universe..

... Since man enjoys the capacity for a free personal choice in truth... the right to religious freedom should be viewed as innate to the fundamental dignity of every human person... all people are «impelled by nature and also bound by our moral obligation to seek the truth, especially religious truth» (Second Vatican Council, Dignitatis Humanae, 2)... let me express my sincere hope that your expertise in the fields of law, political science, sociology and economics will converge in these days to bring about fresh insights on this important question andthus bear much fruit now and into the future.

While Islam and Christianity are both monotheistic, we believe there are fundamental differences between the two faiths, including what they teach about God's revelation to humanity, the nature of God, the path to salvation, and the life of prayer.

The difference between «event» and «duration» is that the earlier Whitehead was talking about the passage of nature, which you slice into events, with the fundamental property that one event can be taken as extending over a lesser one, and so on (Fig.

These «theological» experiences of ours are bound to bring about some fundamental changes in the way we do Christian theology, understand the nature and task of the Christian church, and paractice our Christian faith in Asia.

Unless this fundamental agnosticism about human nature is effectively challenged, the momentum of the anti-life movement would appear unstoppable.

God's horrific, undeserved treatment of Job — who of course knows nothing of the wager — raises fundamental questions about the nature of God.

The assumption that Danny wouldn't even consider being the stay - at - home parent — all other things equal — captures the prevailing nature of existing norms about parenting and the need for a fundamental shift in perspective.

We are at a «constitutional moment» said White; an exceptional historical period when normal politics is superseded by the need for «We, the people» to address fundamental issues about the content and distribution of rights in society and the basic nature of government.

Unfortunately the conclusions OSC has reached about the University's use of the law firm Hogan Lovells to assist with a project relating to the Research Foundation seem to point to a fundamental misunderstanding about the nature and scope of our medical university centers.

Classification of topological quantum phases has brought about a fundamental notion of SPT phases, which are exotic states under the protection of symmetries, and greatly expand our understanding of the fundamental nature of quantum matter.

In addition to helping scientists answer fundamental questions about the nature of matter, the material is theorized to have a wide range of applications, including as a room - temperature superconductor.

The distinctive characteristics of these particles should help us find out more about a fundamental force of nature known as the strong force.

In an era of wrenching human struggle under the heels of military might and the horrors of World War I, the experimental proof of the correctness of Einstein's notion of gravity and curved space showed the world that there were fundamental truths to be learned about nature and that the human mind and spirit could rise above all.

These fundamental questions about the nature of life and our own cosmic significance are endlessly fascinating.

«With the results from the WB - 57s and complementary observations from space and other experiments on the ground we have an opportunity to answer some of the most fundamental questions about the nature of the corona.»

The understandability of the natural world is all the more impressive when one considers the fact that fundamental human assumptions about time and space — the idea that there are 60 minutes in an hour, and that a circle can be broken down into 360 degrees — come from a time with «no articulated sense of nature... no reference or word for it,» according to Francesca Rochberg, professor of Near Eastern studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

«The exciting part of this work is not just that we made hydrogels, but that we're now equipped with this powerful technique that lets us ask fundamental — and very challenging — questions about them,» says Takanari Inoue, Ph.D., an associate professor of cell biology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and senior author of the report on the research published online Nov. 6 in the journal Nature Materials.

«We're asking fundamental questions about the nature of reality, so it's understandable,» Mersini - Houghton says.

Hawking wanted to see whether quantum mechanics, which governs the behavior of atoms and fundamental particles, could provide any insight about the nature of black holes.