Sentences with phrase «as point of origin»

I remember reading a text of Edward Saïd (founder of the postcolonial academic field), he said that there is not a concept such as a point of origin, when one starts a research, one should subtract something from the mass and start to think about this certain subtract.

Mary Birmingham, the curator, cites Matisse as a point of origin, but also a child's paper snowflakes.

In their comparative study, called a lifecycle impact assessment, the researchers used Pennsylvania as the point of origin for both shale gas and coal, since both energy sources are abundant in the state.

Cogredience is taking a particular locus in the passage of nature as a point of origin; he calls it a «percipient event,» but it isn't necessary that percipience should mean anything like conscious perception.

This exhibition is not about Minimalism necessarily, but rather viewing the practices of Minimalist artists as points of origin...

Not exact matches

Many point to the a fifteen year - old book called The Alchemy of Growth as its origin.

As my friend Andrew Crane points out there are many dimensions along which to evaluate the ethics of any product — including not just the intrinsic properties of the product but also things like the process of production and nation of origin.

The source and present location of the saying, as part of the Little Apocalypse, and the probability that the section once circulated without reference to the belief that Jesus was the Son of Man both point toward the probable origin of this type of Christology: it originated among those for whom the vision of Daniel was the authoritative statement of eschatological doctrine.

This means not only that we are approaching the texts as fully human productions — I point out that statements of divine inspiration are statements concerning ultimate origin and authority, not method of composition - but even more that we take seriously that aspect of literature of most interest to cultural anthropologists: how it gives symbolic expression to human experience.

However, to explain the origin of DNA as the mechanism of inheritance, evolutionary theory requires that hundreds of millions of small changes must be retained for thousands upon thousands of generations without producing any survival advantage until some point in the dim and distant future when, lo and behold, they suddenly start working together.

«Abiogenesis is only one area of research which illustrates that the naturalistic origin of life hypothesis has become less and less probable as molecular biology has progressed, and is now at the point that its plausibility appears outside the realm of probability.

Thus, the point is not the non-Jewish origin of Yeshua's priesthood but its derivation from his identity as the messianic Son of David — the priestly king of Jerusalem.

Thus the philologist would ascertain the meaning of a passage of the Indian Atharva - Veda; the historian would assign it to a period in the cultural, political, and religious development of the Hindu; the psychologist would concentrate on its origin and significance as an expression of feeling and thought; and the anthropologist would deal with it from a folkloristic point of view.

«If we take Jesus of Nazareth as the starting point for Christianity, Christianity is apocalyptic in its origin.

His thoughts on the special role of agape in evolution may serve as a point of departure for developing a conceptual scheme that makes room for the origin of what is radically new in a world of regularity and order.

And he offered his thesis as a way of keeping the direction of inquiry open rather than closing it at the point at which the origin of laws are accepted as ultimately unexplained.

One point, parenthetically, confirms Whitehead's remarks about the perfection of the final generalities as his goal, and not the origin, of his metaphysics; that is, axiom v, the category of conceptual reversion, was later abolished (PR 249f.

As we will see in the next chapter, this is similar to Horace Bushnell's theory of the origin of theological words, but points to the unexpectedness of the way in which words are related.

This other aspect of evolution Teilhard de Chardin called convergence; he saw it, like divergence, as an integral part of the evolving process as it moved from the point of origin he called Alpha to the end point he called Omega.

This phenomenon of divergence functions rather like the lines of longitude on the surface of the planet, growing further apart as they move away from their point of origin at the earth's pole.

Among his strongest points is that observations that demonstrate gradual evolutionary changes in specific characteristics (beak shape of finches, color of forest moths, for instance) do not establish how gradual changes could bring about major evolutionary transitions that require concerted functioning of many specialized organs — such as the change from arboreal mammals to night - flying bats, or the origin of life.

This focal point can be conceived of as the origin of the perspective — the tip of the time - cone.

From what is a distinctly Christian point of view, the document proposes as another possibility for the origin of homosexuality «the consequences of original sin,» and «the loss of the sense of God and of man and woman.»

In the West we have, largely because of our identification of our «source» with an action of creation that established the beginning of time, viewed our origin as a point from which to progress.

= > actually, pointing out that what we know of the origin of the universe (the big bang) corresponds with the Genesis account it known as «corroboration» and is actually the exact opposite of circular reasoning.

Note that the origins of the Golden Rule pre-date Christianity by many centuries, and many of the behavior dictates of the bible such as casting out of various folk, as well as Christian god's apparent own extreme cruelty such as wiping out whole civilizations point against it.

Both in The Phenomenon of Man and in The Divine Milieu, Teilhard indicated his conviction that the «end» for which man is intended — and not only man in the racial sense but each man specifically — was a relationship with God, conceived as the Omega - point or the goal and end of the creative process as well as the transcendent origin and initiator of that process.

(Endless possibilities from the history of religions and from Jewish speculative theology have been proposed as the origin of the Son of man figure n Jewish apocalyptic, but two recent areticles have pointed strongly to Ugarit and Tyre: L. Rost, «Zur Deutung des Menschensohnes in Daniel 7», in Gott und die Götter: Festgabe für Erich Fascher [Berlin: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 1958], pp. 41 - 43 [Ugarit], and J. Morgenstern, «The «Son of Man» of Dan.

I've read material on one site (the site has 5K + pages, of which I read less than 100) that uses Velikosky as part of the starting point for a theory of the origin of the universe, and subsequently humans, that is congruent with Genesis, but also both explains and predicts things not found in that account.

Now with the new trade agreements and the fact that food will not be labeled as to its point of origin I wonder what that will do for labeling.

First, my oldest daughter was conceived there on our honeymoon... and while we're on the subject, have I ever shared with you that we almost named her «Sydney» as a nod to her point of origin?

The origins of the Duke Way can be traced back to Krzyzewski's days as a cadet at West Point.

Thus it fails to point out the existence in the Holocaust of religious intolerance and violence against persons or communities based on ethnic origin or religious belief, as the UN resolution does in third item above.

Although determining the precise source of a hack is often impossible, fingers pointed at China as the likely origin, sparking a volley of political posturing from Beijing, Silicon Valley, and Washington, D.C..

First, he points out that patients with MDD exhibit illness behavior such as loss of energy, and that inflammatory biomarkers in MDD also suggest an illness - related origin.

Circumstantial evidence strongly pointed to China as the primary origin of the mercury; the industrial processes that produce the kinds of pollutants Jaffe was seeing on Cheeka Peak should release mercury as well.

This quotation explains why Darwin did not even bother to record the island locations of the few finches he collected (and in some cases mislabeled) and why, as Sulloway has pointed out, these now famous «Darwin finches» were never specifically mentioned in On the Origin of Species.

Scientists at NJIT's Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) have captured the first high - resolution images of the flaring magnetic structures known as solar flux ropes at their point of origin in the Sun's chromosphere.

The evidence, thus far, points to an origin of REM and slow - wave sleep at least as far back as the common ancestor of reptiles, birds and mammals, which lived about 320 million years ago,» explains Laurent.

Roebroeks and Dennell point out that recent fossil finds in the nation of Georgia suggest an Asian origin as much as an African one.

Previous theories attribute South America as the origin of marsupials, but anatomical features of the Didelphodon point to marsupials originating in North America 10 — 20 million years earlier than originally thought, and later dispersing and diversifying in South America.

The city is the point of origin and namesake of Kobe beef as well as the site of one of Japans most famous hot spring resorts, Arima Onsen.

I am of mixed Slavic origin, linguist by profession and artist by vocation, adoring nice movies, music, traveling and learning new things as it makes me more open - minded and tolerant, but I have some very strong life principles that nothing will change and very conservative stand points about things...

Since then, director Mike Flanagan has become a hotter horror property, with another Netflix film, Hush, the Karen Gillan - led Oculus, and the sequel - no - one - wanted - but - actually - wasn't - bad Ouija: Origin of Evil all pointing him out as one to watch.

Feige pointed to the comic book origins as part of the reason to continue Marvel's push.

You see I want to talk about the film's structure, how its episodic and unfocused storyline actually points toward its origins as a manga, and how while having little in the way of actual plot the film uses metaphor and subplot as text rather than subtext.

As I can continue to point out, I seriously can not believe how cool Ouija: Origin of Evil looks, although I am a huge fan...

At this point, it's just talks of ideas and plans for what Tatum wants to be a solo origin film for the character - one he describes as different from most superhero movies we see.

Local rumors point to an experiment called the «The Arrowhead Project» conducted at a nearby top - secret military base, but questions as to the origins of the deadly vapor are secondary to the group's overall chances for survival.

Up to the time of Abreu's discovery, the nutmeg had arrived in Europe as if by magic — traveling from the Orient by caravan through the bazaars of Central Asia, passing through many hands, exact point of origin unknown.