Sentences with phrase «abstract fact of reality»

Death was an abstract fact of reality for me, mainly a reason to pursue now what mattered most in life.

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When James characterized «reality» as made up of eaches and suches, of concrete particular facts and abstract relational concepts, he added a third element: «the whole body of other truths already in our possession» (P 96), the «ancient stock» of truths I have called our «social canon.»

Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract, be they facts or be they principles, under penalty of endless inconsistency and frustration (P96).

These particulars are very superficial and are merely the result of the fact that some very tiny aspect of reality has been abstracted and we say that that is what we have seen.

The recognition that the abstract / concrete distinction is formal suggests that the problem of the necessity of the divine reality does not lie in the fact that it implies that «an abstract part of the antecedent divine event» must necessitate and so be normative over» all subsequent divine events and therefore can not be» «contained» in any concrete divine event» (p. 60).

If talk about God is to express more than intellectually satisfying constructions, abstract ideals, and hopes, theologians will have to show in fact that Hartshorne is wrong when he says that «our knowledge of the concrete divine reality is negligibly small» (NTT 77).

In the one we have imagery, parable, and the reality of a divine - human event: in the other, the abstract concept and the truth of historical fact.

Such proclamation is not an abstracted statement of fact, but a reality declared to reshape reality now.

«That wave is receding now and leaving on the beach the debris of abstract thinking, compartmentalized knowledge, warring specialisms, fragmented facts, and a general sense of alienation between human consciousness and wider reality» (Peters 1985 p. 193).

Yet, the fact is that Whitehead is concerned with the comprehension of the relatedness to reality and the particular concretizability of the objectification which is achieved in the reflective, abstracting external perspective on events.

Speculation does not take heed of the fact that in relation to sin the ethical has its place, which employs an emphasis which is the converse of that of Speculation and accomplishes the opposite development; for the ethical does not abstract from reality but goes deeper into reality, operating essentially by the aid of the category of the individual, which is the category overlooked and despised by Speculation.

Besides our capacity for abstract thought, our mastery of fire, and our obsession with reality television, the simple fact of being bipedal has had drastic effects in our ongoing biological and social evolution.

Gorky's genius at hiding the grotesque facts of objective reality inspired his transformation into one of the 20th Century's most influential American abstract artists.

The fact is that despite a growing desire to engage with properly abstract work again, the brilliant complexities of Sculpture from the Body, and the reality that those complexities were grounded in physicality, put paid to any thoughts of a retreat to sculpture based on the modernist aesthetic decisions of Mr. C. or any other example.