Sentences with phrase «accept apparent contradictions»

The scientific world (of which I am a very happy and productive part) is willing to accept apparent contradictions in its theoretical framework, because the current edifice is the best set of explanations that we currently have.

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The result is a stage of transition, with apparent contradictions or anomalies in what had been formerly accepted and recognised, tensions in the dominant paradigm, and an increase in new theories and types of research with new achievements being produced within the new.

In contrast, constitutional stipulations that are substantive contradict the provision for constitutional change because they falsely assert that they must be explicitly accepted by any political participant who seeks to change them democratically The contradiction becomes fully apparent if we recognize that the argument for permitting substantive constitutional prescriptions also permits an established religion.

Thus Cyril C. Richardson has criticized the classical formulations of the Trinity as imposing an arbitrary «threeness» upon our theological thinking, and proposes instead a basic twofold distinction between God as Absolute and God as Related.1 This is for Richardson a basic paradox, an apparent self - contradiction, for if we try to bring these aspects into relationship, we compromise God's absoluteness.2 Charles Hartshorne accepts this same twofold distinction, but he removes the contradictory element by understanding it in terms of the abstract and concrete dimensions of God's nature and experience.3