Sentences with phrase «assumptions about our existence»

All of us go through life making certain assumptions about our existence.

Destroying comforting assumptions about existence and reality, he has managed to evoke their most basic and hidden fears.

Lackof accurate boundary conditions, insufficient understanding of key variables i.e, air pollution and aerosols and most of all wrongheaded assumption about the existence of positive feedback.

Not exact matches

Arrow and Debreu were able to show the existence of an equilibrium between supply and demand in a free, competitive economy — but they also made clear that this could only exist if a given set of assumptions about the economy and consumer behavior were true.

My point is that we know so very little about our universe that I can say «at the moment nothing we know of is eternal» while at the same time understanding that the universe could be like that electron and wink in and out of existence in some constant renewal, from singularity to singularity and back again, but because we only see a tiny fragment of the process we can only make sloppy assumptions as to the mechanics involved.

One can acknowledge that he is unacquainted with what Paul meant when he said «I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me», and at the same time have his individual existence broken open to fact by the assumption that the man knew what he was talking about, meant what he said, and lived out and died out the affirmation.

In order to approach the issue of God's existence with some degree of clarity, this chapter will examine briefly the writings of F. S. C. Northrop, Alfred North Whitehead, and Charles Hartshorne, as men who operate with similar assumptions about knowledge and metaphysics.

But that would make it impossible for us to talk about a causal relationship between a present effect and a past cause, under the assumption that the past cause is now no longer in existence.

The honest answer is the same as if we are asking about the existence of unicorns: If we don't know if they do or do not exist, we assume they don't (until proven) as the assumption that they do exist doesn't help us anywhere or solve any problems..

You argue that I am wrong to make assumptions about time being infinite in the Godless version of existence, because it is understood that time is relative, it is created along with the universe, etc..

It struck Muller that many philosophical questions about the meaning of human existence are based on the fundamental assumption that life is finite.

If so, a wholesale review of our assumptions about the cosmos would be on the cards — and perhaps a solution to one of its biggest mysteries, the puzzling fact of matter's existence.

But it was true that the existence of the Antikythera Mechanism challenged all of scientists» assumptions about what the ancient Greeks were capable of.

Bienenstock points out that proving the existence of microbial influences on host behavior could upend basic assumptions about the control we have over our thoughts and actions.

It is a fairly reasonable assumption, possibly even the modern usage of Occam's razor (but not the original formulation which was a «proof» of the existence of God) that anybody screaming about «THE TRUTH» is probably no closer to «the truth» than could be achieved by me and a dart board (or any other high - entropy randomisation method).