Sentences with phrase «as principles explanatory»

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But evolution as a great explanatory principle grasped the imagination of the culture only through the work of Charles Darwin.

By itself this suggests a highly negative attitude toward the project of introducing God as an explanatory principle into philosophy.

Here the thinker is led to the conclusion that the only adequate explanatory principle of the creation is an energy which is patient, tender, participant, ceaselessly at work in the world, enhanced by that world's happenings as they provide new ranges of possible ways of adjustment, and moving always towards greater good in every nook and cranny.

Clearly, then, the ontological principle is meant to establish the kinds of particular causes — or, equivalently, of particular reasons or conditions — that can be given as explanatory of how and why a particular actual entity came to have the determinate characters it has.

Finally, the ontological principle establishes the sorts of particular reasons, or of particular causes, that can be given as explanatory of how and why a particular unit - product of the creative advance came to have the determinate characters that it has.

The central preoccupation of the philosopher should therefore be the discovery and accurate description of those ultimate generalities which explain all actual entities Whereas the special sciences seek to uncover the explanatory principles which govern one particular genus of entities, metaphysical inquiry seeks to uncover truly universal principles which apply to all actual entities insofar as they are actual entities.

Although Kim believes that this principle obtains more generally, his application involves causal explanations, and, in fact, he sometimes refers to it as the principle of «causal - explanatory exclusion» (SM 291).

Let us take as our point of departure the formulation of the ontological principle to the effect that «every explanatory fact refers to the decision and to the efficacity of an actual thing.»

If we adopt the latter position, as I believe we should, then we must ask whether in the case of temporal occasions as well the ontological principle allows that their own decisions can be explanatory of conceptual prehensions not derived from physical prehensions.

Theistic imagery can «suggest patterns and unity in the totality of things» by virtue of «an appeal to personal purpose, volitional power, and moral principle as the ultimate explanatory categories».

On the other hand I hold that the technical expression so many philosophers have used as though it were self - explanatory and unambiguous — «the absolute» — is viciously ambiguous and that the more nearly self - explanatory term «independent» is safer, provided one makes explicit what the entity so described is independent of, whether everything else or only some other things, and according to what principle the distinctions are made.

In other words, religion can, for the purpose of these theories, in principle be either reconstructed or abolished and seen as pointing to a more comprehensive theoretical system.4 By locating religion in a larger explanatory context it gives «its public claim to validity a purely relative value».5

If we adopt the later position, as I believe we should, then we must ask whether in the case of temporal occasions as well the ontological principle allows that their own decisions can be explanatory of conceptual prehensions not derived from physical prehensions.

Based on the principle that the primary purpose of grammar instruction is to improve student writing, this grammar program teaches the conventions of standard English and takes students through the complete writing process as they write arguments, informative / explanatory texts, and narratives.

The concepts of a «rule» and a «principle» have attracted much attention in legal theory, but the tradition in cases and commentaries on Canadian evidence law has been to treat these terms as if they were self - explanatory.