Sentences with word «analogical»

The alternative set of conclusions has the advantage of being in less tension with the Bible and also of not requiring the confusing doctrine of analogical discourse as a third way between the univocal and the equivocal.

By analogical reasoning from the independence and freedoms guaranteed to the media, the spirit of the Constitution obligates them when they have published a rejoinder to a previous and similar false allegation, to at least call the readers» attention to the previous rebuttal of the current falsehood being peddled against the accused.

I have proposed that the idea of models provides a new form of analogical thinking which is not dependent on the metaphysical assumptions of the scholastic doctrine of analogy.

It follows by analogical reasoning that if God gives you the grace to take off some pounds through diet and exercise, God himself is doing it.

This would be a serious weakness in Mascall's total position except for the fact that he does not believe that the reality of intelligible analogical discourse depends upon its adequate explanation.

How can there possibly be a true analogical relationship between an evolving process and an unchanging Being?

That this ability is present at 3 months of age shows that analogical processes exist prior to language learning.»

Although students may rely on analogical reasoning on a law school exam, the dominant mode of analysis on a traditional issue - spotting exam is rule - based reasoning.

You always can avail comfort, that you are not single, many other go through analogical situations and senses, it is necessary, to enable yourself to move farther and meet someone new.

The metaphorical and analogical potential of language facilitates the crystallization of social values and norms by which experience is interpreted.

The fact is that although Mascall quite explicitly affirms the purely analogical character of even causality and existence as applied to God, (Existence and Analogy, p. 87.)

The correlation here is more than merely analogical since in neither case would either type of entity exist as such were it not for this ontological dependence of the whole on its parts.

(This approach is also called analogical, as opposed to univocal or equivocal, and has a more general application: a single term [e.g., «alive»] may be predicated all along the scale of being, but only if suitable adaptations are made at each threshold.)

But if all these terms when applied to God refer ultimately to the one act that we can more accurately call existing, I am unable to see how we can regard the use of terms like these as analogical rather than simply equivocal.

But there are two fundamentally different ways of approaching such an explication, and they are correlative with the two primary ways of understanding the language in which the confessional statement is made: the univocal, which takes the language as rigidly discursive, and the imagistic, which sees it as highly analogical or symbolic.

In this context, the appeal to the Kerygma becomes an appeal to the act of faith as being a knowledge of the universal love of God, concerning which a process metaphysics may provide analogical knowledge obout.

The correlation to a Society per se is more than simply analogical in these terms since the subject - object structure of experience is generic to all things, and yet neither are a civilized society and a Society per se identical, owing to the unique type of experience manifested by human social interaction.

Models in religion are also analogical.

Innerspeaker was better, in this release everything sounds so analogical.

«We correlate ourselves in a so - called contemporary society controlled by artificial satellites, where the speed of a post-digital and new media generation dictates time and velocity, and artificially replaces the natural / analogical world.

We have pulled from Gilles Deleuze's reference to Analogical painting as reference to interpret a new generation of emerging painters who pull from representation, distorting it through a new diagram as Urban contemporary artists.

Without analogical thought, the swing from the equivocal separation of transcendence and immanence to the other pole of their univocal identity becomes inevitable.

All accept the Qur» an and the sunnah (Muhammad's example) as foundational but differ on the importance of consensus in collective scholarly reasoning (ijma) and individual analogical reasoning (qiyas).

On the contrary, we can now envision all trees as analogical actualities, as transcendent symbols that participate in the reality that they signify, as having likenesses to us despite their differences from us, and thus as linking natural things with both human and divine things — and perhaps also with things demonic.

The Catholic and analogical quality of Tolkien's and Chesterton's work is what Milbank most convincingly demonstrates.

1) It is maintained by some that the relationship was essentially analogical - sequential: that is, imperial ideology did not directly shape ideas about Christ but, by virtue of the obvious analogies between some key elements of both, it made the ideas about Christ preached by the early Christians easily comprehensible and attractive to pagans.

In difficult cases one asks not (for instance) whether the rule against murder has exceptions but whether this kind of case counts as murder - a question of analogical judgment.

This does not affect the fact that whereas metaphysical terms can be literal, Biblical terms are typically analogical.)

Hence, the proper analogical predication of love and knowledge to God does not contradict his impassibility as would be the case if predication were univocal.

Because all language involves a process of abstracting certain elements in experience out of the total complex in which they occur, it is necessarily analogical and therefore imprecise: a word never refers to an absolutely discrete entity.

RC — Gordon Gallup, Jr. «Reason in the Chimp: I. Analogical Reasoning.»

The corrective I would like to urge upon Schubert Ogden, then, is not that he abandon his method of process theology based upon analogical thinking, but that he consider some means by which he might avoid the inevitable drift of such thinking toward a closed rationalism, in which only man and his formulations speak forth.