Sentences with phrase «absurd through logic»

They wish to convince people that faith is absurd through logic and reason, it's their entire sales pitch, and directly attack the idea of coerced belief.

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The case is constructed through the patient logic of showing how any contrary construction would be absurd and impossible: blood is not, and can not be, water; hence, if there is no wine in the cup and only water is present, then the vital salvific symbol is absent; since wine «signifies the blood of Christ,» it follows that wine, which is testified to throughout Scripture, has to be present.

Takes a clichéd - seeming premise and carefully proceeds to turn it on its head through logic, absurd humor and the consumption of vast quantities of cigarettes.

The volume includes Carroll's novel in full, supplemented by Day's observations as he painstakingly traces the various themes — music and philosophy, mathematics and poetry — that run through Carroll's narrative, proving along the way that Alice, even as it celebrates the absurd, exhibits airtight logic.

Once you managed to wrangle the game's internal logic you could usually manage to figure out the more insane solutions Doomsday, though, steps over the line numerous times throughout it's 8 - 10 hour runtime, dropping in absurd answers to problems that nobody will feel like they solved through clever thinking.

Equally, the motif of the hare, that would occupy Flanagan for much of the rest of his career (not to mention bringing him fame and fortune), came from his perennial attentiveness to the world of literature — Jarry's logic of the absurd simply being superseded by George Ewart Evans and David Thompson's «The Leaping Hare», a book exploring the hare's mythical attributes through history.