Sentences with phrase «as the actual facts»

This adventure embraces all particular occasions but as an actual fact stands beyond any one of them... [It] includes among its components all individual realities, each with the importance of the personal or social fact to which it belongs.

The word which got translated into Latin as «credo» did not really mean «I believe this as actual fact» but something more like «I put my faith in, or I commit myself to, or I follow the teaching of...».

He spoke of a literal Adam and Eve, Noah's Ark, Jonah in the belly of the great fish, and the destruction of Sodom — all as actual fact.

Teaching children a bible story as actual fact, instead of a religious representation, is just as ludicrious.

That supernatural order of life which the apocalyptists had predicted in terms of pure fantasy is now described as an actual fact of experience.

As actual fact is thereby brought into juxtaposition with the realm of possibilities, relevant, but novel, possibilities for that factual situation emerge into important contrast with what has in fact occurred.

The procedures leading up to trial are as important to the final outcome as the actual facts and law that will be heard at trial.

Not exact matches

In fact, the minutes note that «some participants viewed the actual and expected progress toward the [Fed's] goals as sufficient to call for a relatively prompt move toward reducing policy accommodation to avoid overshooting the [Fed's] unemployment and inflation objectives over the medium term.»

Despite all the changes in technology and the fact that they should be looking at end products rather than face time, managers still reward the early birds and consider late risers as slackers, regardless of actual work done.

The logic: The Cowboys looked about as bad as a football team can possibly look last week against the Seahawks, losing what was essentially an elimination game despite the fact that Seattle had more penalty yards than they had actual yards.

We're talking about outright lies, dozens of them, told day after day, as if no one were checking the actual facts.

The research revealed that not only do people rate wooded mountain areas as more calm and peaceful and open ones — such as the beach or a flat city — as more sociable and stimulating, but it also found that in actual fact more introverts really do live in mountainous areas and extroverts in flat, open ones.

Unfortunately, this baseless action then serves as a basis for public opinion, which is not easy to reverse even after the actual facts are revealed.

«Because there is no genuine dispute of material fact that Sulyma had actual knowledge of the facts comprising claims I and III, as well as knowledge of the disclosures he alleges were unlawfully inadequate in claims II and IV, the Court grants defendants» motion for summary judgment on those claims, finding them time - barred,» Cousins wrote in his opinion.

It's a small fact that could be brushed off as a build - up to the actual questions Waymo attorneys wanted to ask Kalanick.

But as fun as maximalist thoughts of an immutable ledger are to entertain, the fact is the people in the blockchain space still live in the real world, where law — not computer code — controls, and online actions can have actual consequences.

As a matter of fact, some psychologists think that mental practice is just as important as actual practice itselAs a matter of fact, some psychologists think that mental practice is just as important as actual practice itselas important as actual practice itselas actual practice itself.

In fact, a recommendation for a participant to take a rollover distribution would be viewed as fiduciary advice, even if the advisor does not include any actual investment recommendations along with the rollover recommendation.

Despite the fact that these virtual humans were not representations of actual people, they found that participants» performance of the novel task was impaired when they were led to believe that the virtual audience consisted of avatars, but not when they were framed as agents.

In actual fact, it is given so as to build up the interest of traders.

As long as investors perceive valuations to be acceptable, there is no compelling reason why the actual facts should get in their way over the short - terAs long as investors perceive valuations to be acceptable, there is no compelling reason why the actual facts should get in their way over the short - teras investors perceive valuations to be acceptable, there is no compelling reason why the actual facts should get in their way over the short - term.

In fact, as Elizabeth O'Bagy wrote in the Wall Street Journal, «Moderate opposition groups make up the majority of actual fighting forces,» but they won't be there for long without help.

Mary I would think that with churches all donations are tax deductible and the church does not pay taxes... the tax payers have in actual fact still paid for this as they do for all churches.

It has long been clear from apparatus like miniature and 8 mm cine cameras, as well as the tape recorder, which are in actual fact already in the hands of the masses, that the individual, so long as he remains isolated, can become with their help at best an amateur but not a producer.

That would just be ludicrous), as time goes on, there seems to be more and more evidence coming up that there isn't a god, especially YOUR kind of god at least, as the Bible just seems to be getting destroyed with actual facts.

They say that that the Romans lined the roads with crucifixions as a means to intimidate the masses into submission, that in actual fact, crosses were slammed into the ground and the crucified only hung 6 inches to a foot off the ground, so no traveller could avoid facing the sacrificed and exposed.

Nor would there be any disagreement over the fact that; once an actual world has been formed, limitation, opposition and negation become characteristic features of the world as actualized.

But, in fact, the actual occasions that constitute our bodies are constantly aiming at satisfactions directed to the healthy functioning of our bodies as a whole.

In actual fact, I don't feel as though I've built anything at all, except maybe a blog.

This is the sense in which «a fact can harbor potentiality» (Adventures 138): All objects that exist are actual either (1) as determinate, satisfied processes physically felt, or (2) as indeterminate objects created in the present and conceptually felt in the present — by what Whitehead would call Valuation (also Reproduction and Conformity) and Reversion — as the present whole weighs somewhat general and indeterminate alternatives for its satisfaction.

A philosopher notes three areas in which linguistic philosophy could broaden itself: 16 (1) broaden the verifiability principle so as to make other experiences besides sense experience possible, (2) abandon the viewpoint that would reduce all meaning of things to present or actual fact, and (3) pay more attention to conceptual frameworks through which we seek to apprehend the world.

As the actual Church in fact does not fulfill it, does not advocate concrete social demands energetically enough, does not dissociate itself radically or quickly enough from dying social forms, does not stigmatize nuclear warfare profoundly enough (all this according to the opinion of these Christians, which objectively is by no means necessarily false), they experience one disappointment after another in regard to the Church, protest against it, hurt and irritated, and turn into lay defeatists.

In other words, an enduring creature would be confronted willynilly with the fact of its past redemption and compelled to accept it, to integrate it as part of its present determinateness in the same way as it must appropriate any other fact in its actual world....

Properly speaking, a democratic constitution provides the one set of legal prescriptions that must be explicitly accepted by all citizens as participants in the political discourse, including discourse about whether the actual constitution is in fact democratic and, indeed, whether democracy itself is the proper form of the political association.

Now although this primordial actual entity may itself be interpreted in terms of the principle of creative synthetic experiencing, the fact remains that simplicity of principle is gained at the expense of multiplication of entities, and the latter offends Occam's principle as surely as does multiplicity of principles.

This perspective of B as external to that of A. However, Whitehead's theory is inconsistent with versions of externalism which assume a hypothetical ideal observer or versions of externalism dependent on types of realism which posit objective facts of the matter independent of the experience of any actual subject.

However, so far as their actual interpretation of these facts goes, they are hardly at one.

In fact, in spite of his insisting that most actual occasions are unconscious (and that there is much that is unconscious even in that series of actual occasions which constitute our successive mental states), his talk of their experience or feeling of themselves, the influence of their predecessors, and their subjective immediacy seems pointless unless each of them is supposed to feel its own being, in some genuine sense, however dimly, so that there is a truth as to what - it - is - like - being - it.

For example, against both dualism and reductionistic determinism and in favor of the pancreationist, panexperientialist view that the actual world is made up exhaustively of partially self - determining, experiencing events, there is considerable evidence, such as the fact that a lack of complete determinism seems to hold even at the most elementary level of nature; that bacteria seem to make decisions based upon memory; that there appears to be no place to draw an absolute line between living and nonliving things, and between experiencing and nonexperiencing ones; and that physics shows nature to be most fundamentally a complex of events (not of enduring substances).

Part of the confusion of Cobb's position stems from the fact that the extensive continuum, conceived of as a set of relations underlying past, present, and future, is part actual and part potential — actual in as far as it is constituted by actual entities enjoying actual relationships legislating what are real potentialities governing the relationships of future occasions; and merely potential in so far as these relationships are viewed as factors determining what forms of definiteness are, and are not, possible as factors in future fact.

In fact, any actual entity is such as to be constituted of a multiplicity of other actual entities.

Moreover, Santayana would agree with Whitehead's statement that» [an] eternal object is always a potentiality actual entities; but in itself... it is neutral as to the facts of its... ingression in any particular actual entity of the temporal world» (PR 44).

But marvel as we may, we shall still be puzzled about why one should have to undertake such an Aufbau of something that was originally deemed so important that in a very real sense the postulated actual entities are in fact constructions out of it.

Where Whitehead and Santayana are strikingly similar is in holding that the spatio - temporal world is ultimately atomic or quantic so that what constitutes the world at any one moment, or a piece of history, is a system of facts, events, natural moments, or actual occasions, whose relations (or perhaps rather possibilities of relations) constitute space and time (as opposed to their being as mere possibilities of relations) rather than are in them as containers (see ED 27).

@transframer — With all due respect, you didn't really address the issues raised regarding: 1) actual # of extant vertebrate species; 2) the fact that land inverts «breath air» and would have drowned if not accounted for on the ark; 3) that the dino genera identified in the wiki link far exceeds 50; 4) the need to account for extinct land vertebrates in addition to those still around; 5) that many marine fish would have died as their habitat's salinity dropped; 6) that your % allotments for food / water don't reflect the fact that many forms require fresh meat and / or eat disproportionately to their sizes; 7) the specific dietary / environmental constraints involved in the migration to the Ark and the return trips from Mt. Ararat.

The pure prophets are distinguished from the apocalyptic ones, as from the seers and diviners of other religions, by the fact that they did not wish to peep into an already certain and immutable future but were concerned only with the full grasping of the present, actual and potential.

You missed one crucial requirement to «acting the same» as an atheist: You forgot to base your words on actual facts.

Each pulse of existence — Whitehead calls them «actual entities» — requires the antecedent others as its constituents, yet achieves individuality as a unique, finite synthesis; and when its growth is completed, stays in the universe as one of the infinite number of settled facts from which the individuals of the future will arise.

However, my interest lies in the actual and effective emergence of a new structure of existence, and as a matter of historical fact, this occurred only by the total impact of Jesus» transformation of Jewish teaching combined with his resurrection appearances.

And we have already emphasized again and again that what God is «up to» in the creation, as well as in human life, is the bringing to actual realization of the potentialities which are given to both in the very fact of their being created.