Sentences with phrase «accept that notion one»

Economists have long accepted the notion that inflation can stay high or low simply because of public perceptions.

It was generally accepted notion if the USA was in a recession, other parts of the world be thriving during that same period.

In the end, the information may refute or confirm historical events, chronologies, context, and even debunk some accepted notions and rituals.

That is why it is a commonly accepted notion.

Judaism does not accept the notion that was cooked up, and argued about, in early Christian councils, (the «trinity»).

Orthodox Christianity would seem to Davies ample enough to support this new life, but, whether through understandable caution or unthinking fear, it has always been indisposed to accept any notion of fullness that asks us not to cut off or pluck out what we identify as evil, but rather to know it wholly — as part of life, as part of holiness, as part even of God.

I can accept the notion that a God just exist, and if those want to play on that concept we can take it even further and say why could God not have come out of a Big Bang as well.

I would accept the notion that most persons in our culture, Christian and non-Christian alike, function in their daily lives, perhaps unconsciously, on the basis of the assumed absence of God in history.

This argument presupposes a false dilemma, as I see it, that either one accepts the notion of a separate soul - substance enduring through time or else one must accept the thesis of process philosophy.

If we furthermore accept the notion that these units are internally related, in the sense that the earlier drops of consciousness enter into the consciousness of subsequent drops, it follows that these units or drops of consciousness can not know themselves.

No, sin does not exist outside of the bible, thus no non-believer is gullible enough to accept that notion.

When you accept the notion that senseless death and destruction is a fact of life that can not be attributed to any supernatural force, you are taking the right step in the direction of healing.

In every age, people naturally form World Pictures that are syntheses of ideas derived from various sources - prevailing scientific theories, philosophical speculation, revealed truth, widely accepted notions, and «common sense».

For someone who simply does not believe in God, proof of non-existence is irrelevant, he / she simply does not accept the notion of God.

It might appear that if we describe the Christian life as process, we should have to accept the notion of a progressive achievement.

But to accept that notion one has to discard all that Matthew says in 6:1 - 18 about rewards.

Accepting the notion that biblical narratives are the product of many layers of oral tradition, they see scripture as paradigmatic of humanity's interpretation of the experience (there is no such thing as uninterpreted experience!)

Some scientists accept the notion that experience affects body functions but try to formulate the problem in a way that does not involve conflicts with thermodynamic laws.

Some of them have very little scientific evidence to substantiate them, and several of these accepted notions have been statistically tested with startling results in Sexual Preference; Its Development in Men and Women, by Alan P. Bell et al. (Indiana University Press, 1981).

Yet he is realistic about the distance which many of his seminary colleagues will have to travel before they will be willing to accept his notion of «the parish as paradigm.»

It's difficult to accept the notion that the things that are most characteristic of our lives should not be most central.

He accepted the notion that very different people could coexist in one family; that they could love one another, and that they could work for a common good.

What if someone does not accept the notion of a Triune God?

@jc,»... and atheists aren't willing to accept the notion that the kind of «evidence» they are searching for may not reasonably be expected.»

That each of the religions of the world is in some sense a distinct entity is a commonly accepted notion.

Palin accepted the notion with a «laying on of hands.»

He accepts the notion that the substantial unity of the composite substance can only be explained in terms of the notions of potency and act (PN 126 - 27).

You wholeheartedly accept the notion that a super complex creator just «exists» without any explanation at all, yet, you find it unreasonable that a universe could just «exist» without having been created.

Well, no serious art historian would accept the notion that the admittedly effeminate figure to Jesus» right in Leonardo Da Vinci's Last Supper is Mary Magdalene.

If he had been intellectually honest, he would have acknowledged that Buchanan accepts the notion that free trade among all nations is a desirable goal.

To take another example, one can scarcely imagine American Indians accepting the notion that a white European United States has an a priori right to exist because «God gave the Puritans this land,» to make a «city set on a hill.»

I'll accept the notion that JaMychal Green is an interesting prospect, but there's no reliable evidence that Adams can play at this level.

If you can accept the notion that animals act like animals, why is accepting the notion that humans will act like humans all that difficult?

2) I actually think this is a good idea, though it does somewhat backhandedly accept the notion that the minimum wage can occasionally be bar to employment, especially for smaller companies, and the government needs to compensate accordingly.

Later that week he said his supporters «can't accept the notion that New York City will be treated like a colony that doesn't even get to decide its own future.»

Either way, it is also difficult to see the public accepting the notion of one party being permanently in government — the Liberal Democrats are currently the only viable coalition ally for both Labour and the Tories — and leaving their controversial leader in place is likely a bridge too far.

But Soyinka said: «I can not accept the notion that people have a right to kill other people because they want to assert their identity... It doesn't cost anything to recognise it.»

By Sharita Moore - Willis Recently, Mayor Bill de Blasio went in front of the Association for a Better New York and told the crowd that he doesn't «accept the notion of the good school and the bad school» in New York -LSB-...]

«Accepting the notion that breaking down complex concepts from my discipline into very simplified explanations for the understanding of the public does not «dumb down'the work, but in fact gives it greater value, as it can reach more people.»

But I accepted the notion that biological systems, and their bewilderingly complex behaviour, could ultimately be understood from more fundamental physical laws.

We commonly accept the notion that through our DNA we are destined to have particular body shapes, personalities, and diseases.

They accepted the notion that the entire observable universe — 100 billion galaxies, each stuffed with 100 billion stars, stretching out more than 10 billion light - years in all directions — was once squashed into a space far smaller than a single electron.

«Most of the time when doctors talk about inappropriate lab testing, there's a generally accepted notion that it's too many «repeat» tests being ordered,» says Arnaout.

Writing in the October issue of Current Anthropology, he and three colleagues challenge a widely accepted notion that cultural transmission goes back more than 2 million years.

«Early humans and dawn of human information sharing: Team challenges accepted notions of cultural transmission.»

People have accepted this notion when it comes to carbon dioxide or the chemicals that eat away at the ozone layer, but Jaffe is finding that they are still coming to terms with the reality that it applies to industrial pollutants in general.

It also shows that your results are important and that you are challenging accepted notions.

«Our results support the increasingly accepted notion that amyloids may not always be harmful and markers of disease, but, instead, may carry out important functions in the human body.»

Applying all of this to the passenger pigeon is challenging many widely accepted notions about the bird.

It breaks my heart that so many people just accept the notion that relationships inevitably start out hot and fizzle over time.