Sentences with phrase «argument from order»

For example, Hartshorne's argument from order presupposes his psychicalism.

If not, some other argument from order may be possible, but not this one.

Perhaps the argument should instead be called the Argument from Order, as many Thomist commentators call it.

For it would seem that the arguments from order and from contingency either rest on a misunderstanding of what an explanation is, or more likely, on an arbitrary supposition that man's experience is intelligible precisely in this way.

Tellingly, Dawkins makes the same mistake as his opponents in assuming that when design loses its explanatory purchase on evolutionary biology, then all arguments from order have thereby also been automatically dispatched.

Again, arguments from order and design in nature may be an inadequate basis for a living relationship to God, but they still have a significant role.

Berger's suggestion is that we ponder what he calls «prototypical human gestures» as an appropriate place to begin our theologizing: the argument from ordering, from play, from humor, from terror and from hope.

Not exact matches

Before this starts to sound like the annual lecture from management — perhaps you're one of those corporate employees forced to sleepwalk through an intranet quiz once in a while to prove to your higher - ups that you're familiar with the company's code of conduct — consider DeMars's argument for the value of the ethical office from a personal standpoint: «In order to live happily and at peace with ourselves, we have to live in ways that are congruent with our morals,» she argues.

Another argument for holding off came from International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde, who urged more coordination among the world's leading central banks in order to ensure an orderly exit from QE.

Whitehead's argument for the existence of God, insofar as there is an argument at all, is primarily the traditional one from the order of the universe to a ground of order.

Once again they can only explain away by appeal to another principle of order: for example, the neo-Darwinian argument that life on earth only seems to be teleological «because of environmental and molecular constraints on the direction of change» (from the online Wikipedia entry for «orthogenesis»).

But St. Thomas considered these idealistic arguments illegitimate since it was a fallacy, he claimed, to make a transition from the ideal to the real order.

It can be argued... and it is an argument I listen to... that people such as monks and hermits who remove themselves from the crowd in order to explore new spiritual territory or to pray for the world are actually benefiting the human race vicariously.

People always use this argument, that order can't come from disorder.

The argument they derive from the Bible is that they are against the primordial order of things established by God in creation.

Naturalistic explanations have already been successful enough in explaining natural order to conclude with assurance that the argument from design simply does not carry much weight any more.

The aim of the event is to «provoke a challenge from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service in order to file a lawsuit and have its argument out in court.»

The facts of order from which the physico - theological argument starts are thus easily susceptible of interpretation as arbitrary human products.

An alternative formulation is that the world as a unity is explainable only by the divinely inclusive love that binds the many into a single cosmic structure; and, therefore, the world of secular experience is nonsense if God does not exist.79 Similarly, one neoclassical version of the traditional teleological argument would be that the fact that the world has any order at all is only to be explained by an eternal divine Orderer, because apart from God it is impossible to understand why chaos and anarchy are not unlimited and supreme.80

In any case, in whatever terms the argument is cast» that the trouble is the kids need some order and discipline, or need to raise their sights, or need to do something that matters, or are soft and spoiled» the notion of service is at bottom not something to be demanded from them but something to be done for them.

We must elicit from Ricoeur's writings an order of presentation not explicit there but nevertheless justified by the structure of his argument.

Madison's words were taken from a lengthy argument against a specific bill in Virginia's legislature which would have levied a tax in order to financially support the teaching of Christianity, and he argued against such a tax on the grounds that past legal support of Christianity had led to its corruption.»

It flows from his argument that the latter, non-universal, non-intelligible mode of the form mentioned by Mr Deighan must be abstracted by the «active intellect» into the former «in the mind» mode in order to be the object of our understanding (intellect).

Ruini implies that the Pope's line of argument was that this reductionism arises from an unjustified transference of scientific reductionism to philosophy - a sort of forgetfulness of what was validly and completely left out in order forexperimental methodology to progress.

For Hartshorne now, the two most important arguments are those from order and from meaning.

The Teleological argument, sometimes called the argument from Design, starts from the signs of order and purpose in the world.

The clear principles of Catholic social thought and the rationally accessible ¯ and highly persuasive ¯ lines of argument from natural - law philosophy provide better grounds for discussion of how to order our lives together.

As a result, aside from some who will use this as ammunition against Guardiola for splashing out in order to get City to the position they're currently in, it could perhaps also form part of the argument that the gulf in the Premier League comes down to the big clubs making the most of their financial muscle and causing a disparity with the rest of the league.

The former Barcelona man agreed an 18 - month contract with Manchester United earlier this year in January and has fallen down the pecking order at Old Trafford, with reports claiming he has been banned from training after having argument with manager Louis van Gaal.

This week also saw closing arguments in the corruption trial of Pedro Espada, Jr., the former state senate majority leader accused of embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from a publicly funded healthcare system in order to finance his lavish personal lifestyle.

Castorina and his attorney, Jeffrey Alfano, convinced an Appellate Division clerk and justice to leave that order in place — despite arguments from city Assistant Corporation Counsel Richard Dearing that such purges are «appropriate and lawful» for numerous agencies.

David Willetts discovered this when he was moved from his job as education spokesman for laying out the arguments of the leader's own declared position: that the party needed to move beyond support for grammar schools in order to widen opportunity in secondary education.

At 1 p.m., attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights hold press conference following Court of Appeals argument on the Bloomberg administration's request to further delay court - ordered remedies in the stop - and - frisk lawsuit; 40 Centre Street, 40 Foley Square, Manhattan.

In relation to this book, however, the most important impetus for argument about the concept of cosmopolitan citizenship stems from normative ethical and political concerns about the possible costs and benefits to political order, community, rights and participation of opting either for a cosmopolitan or a bounded citizenship ideal.

Without indicating what action he might take in the Ivy case, Soares insisted he was working to prevent a defense attorney from raising a potentially disastrous legal argument against any district attorney who might bring charges in a case that falls into what Soares characterized as the executive order's ample ambiguities.

The court gave the order to defreeze his accounts after hearing the arguments from lawyers of Opuni.

It is important to understand where hESCs come from in order to understand the ethical arguments that surround them, as well as their enormous, innate biological potential.

There was some argument when the single knockout was reported that PPL announced it in a press release in order to steal the thunder from a group in Missourri who were just about to publish in Science.

In order to hone the arguments for possible application of the discussed genomic tools, each work group narrowed its choices to one or two applications and prepared a 10 - minute «pitch» to a panel that provided viewpoints from business, philanthropy and government.

I find it amusing that «sds» who claim to have a life's purpose in keeping escorts away from being sugar babies are the first ones to lay out how they see a sb's allowance as a per meet, per week, then pro rated per hour «allowance» to build a strawman argument from made up numbers in the first place all in order to discredit women who say they turned down a lower allowance.

The arguments range from the persuasive (the standards are too prescriptive, are too broad, or divert attention from teaching of higher - order skills) to the absurd (the tests are beneath us).

You will be required to obtain consent from your governing body and consult with stakeholders before applying for an academy order, and to do so you will need to have a strong argument for why your school should convert into an academy.

While he did declare a winner in terms of who is currently doing the best job of getting the reading experience right (click HERE to read his article), he gave a very sound argument for what is lacking in digital children's reading, namely that necessary pauses that come from the page turns in order to teach children effect storytelling and dramatic effect.

A thesis or research proposal is likely to require some degree of research to gain an understanding of the subject in order to develop and base logical arguments on it, or a student may benefit from a good sample research paper to guide them.

Gouin has since ordered an immediate suspension of the ban after hearing arguments from both the Montreal SPCA and the city of Montreal.

And in addition, think about all the wasted energy the «climate community» spent mitigating the impact of «deniers,» when «skeptics» could have helped out by listening more carefully to the «climate community,» and trying to understand «the climate community's» arguments, and adding to progress on increasing our understanding of the causes of climate variability and change — rather than apologizing or ignoring the input from scientists like Fred Singer — who deliberately lifts a conditional clause from a larger sentence, divorces it completely from context, and creates a fraudulent quotation in order to deliberately deceive, or Ross McKitrick who slanders other scientists on purely speculative conclusions about their motivations, or guest - posters at WUWT who call BEST «media whores,» or the long line of denizens at Climate Etc. who falsely claim that the «climate community» ignores all uncertainties towards the goal of serving a socialist, eco-Nazi agenda to destroy capitalism.

Should I not ridicule GaryM's argument in order to prevent someone from getting enraged?

Let's just assume for the sake of argument that you're right, that the denialists, the fossil fuel lobby are trying to gin up uncertainty in order to paralyze the legislative process and to stop anything from happening in this regard.

Maybe there is a valid reason for you to advocate because of your concern about a lack of balance, but: (1), I question the criteria you are using to measure that imbalance, and (2) as you become an advocate, you drift away from the science, and you drift away from the first order priority of presenting as much information as is reasonable, objectively, before laying out the argument for your conclusions.

... that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order; that truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.