Sentences with phrase «assumptions about reality»

The regrettable standard manifestations of philosophical designs in the twentieth century are such that they optimize techniques for overcoming problems intellectually, problems which proceed on the basis of no longer convincing assumptions about reality.

But as McFague has said, «for theology to do less than fit our present understanding — for it to accept basic assumptions about reality from a very different time — seems blatantly wrong - headed» (McFague, 14).

We need not feel tryannized by the present, for whether theology is a human projection or a reflection of divine realities depends upon one's initial assumptions about reality.

Instead of actual science, are you not promoting your unproven assumption about reality?

Not exact matches

While you may hope that people will take the time to get to know you before making assumptions about you, the reality is that first impressions are everything.

If Grisez - Finnis mean to expand their influence out of that corner, they are going to have to persuade people to believe the assumptions about ultimate reality on which their enterprise rests.

We build up a simplified model of reality by making assumptions about how the world works, and then we try to assume everything away apart from that specific issue we are focusing on.

What Greenawalt accepts as «rationality» is actually the irrational assumption that we can get along very well without employing any controversial assumptions about the nature of ultimate reality.

Some of the assumptions we all maintained about getting older turned out to be myths perpetuated by culture and not the reality we're living in.

The assumption hidden in this procedure is that pure and true thought about reality can occur only when it is removed from act and practice follow theory: doing is an extension of knowing.

However, by the time he delivered his Gifford lectures at the University of Edinburgh in 1927 and 1928, upon which Process and Reality was based, Whitehead was already aware of insurmountable difficulties with many empiricist assumptions about the nature of the reality that we are supposed to observe in order to confirm those general laws of which CohenReality was based, Whitehead was already aware of insurmountable difficulties with many empiricist assumptions about the nature of the reality that we are supposed to observe in order to confirm those general laws of which Cohenreality that we are supposed to observe in order to confirm those general laws of which Cohen wrote.

Science operates off first principles» in other words, assumptions about the nature of reality» that can never be proven by science itself.

Henri Bergson's view of creative change exhibits tensions between conceptual and supra - conceptual assumptions about the nature of cognition and reality.

As the name «genetic ontology» indicates, one general assumption is that the human's statements about reality express the experience of a genesis of being — and to be sure in a phylogenetic as well as in an ontogenetic sense, that is, in the form of an historical - evolutionary as well as an individual process.

If our concern is to be realistic, then we must have some assumptions both about what constitutes reality and how we go about putting ourselves in touch with it.

Thus there is little hope for our recovering a feeling of truly belonging to the cosmos as long as we hold onto the assumptions about physical reality (such as the primacy of primary qualities and cognate assumptions) underlying scientism and materialism.5 For we will continue to have a gnawing suspicion that the real world is so different from our projections that we are still without a home in the universe as it runs on colorlessly and meaninglessly beneath our secondary and tertiary «subjective» projections.

However, making an assumption about his purpose for making such assertions like the one you just did is completely unfounded in reality and based on no real evidence.

Underlying this confidence in reason's capacities are Hartshorne's assumptions that reality has an intelligible and coherent structure, that human reason can know that structure, and that there can be a basic congruence between reality and human ideas or formulations about that reality.

Where these assumptions — about the nature of language, of reality, of history, or of nature — are widely accepted, and where they are congenial to the task of doctrinal formulation, their uncritical acceptance is harmless.

The disconnect between criticism and reality comes from critics» own assumptions about AP families: They assume Mom is doing it all.

Perhaps not, according to a virtual reality experiment that suggests that we ignore what we see if it clashes with our assumptions about the everyday world.

Now that they're back together, the assumption there then is that she might be feeling embarrassed about the attention when she's with him and conflicted inside about the reality of her life and not wanting to alienate him.

The lesson begins with an activity aimed at exploring how as humans we are conditioned into making judgements / assumptions about things which distort reality.

He'd get so in to his interviews and chatting about these features that many people just made the assumption that the features would definitely be in the final product, when the reality was that they often weren't because Lionhead couldn't find a way to make them work.

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

Halley achieved notable fame in the 1980s with his Day - Glo geometric paintings that challenged previous assumptions about abstract art through his insistence that geometry is always tied to social realities.

But from the critics, there is, often enough, a sheer separation from reality, most commonly assumptions about what work has NOT been done.

By ideological commitments, I refer to the fundamental assumptions, the implicit lens that we use to examine reality and that are closely related to our beliefs about how the world is and should be.

While some bemoan too little data is yet available, or it is too unreliable, or otherwise complain about how reality makes their theory unhappy, Science has always found that where exceptions too much abound, where assumptions lead to failure, where we can not universally apply a formula, our explanation requires amendment.

The challenge is to validate both realities and assumptions about the surface record.

Having talked with those involved with the LLLT program, I consider this assumption, at best, purely speculative and certainly more about PR than reality.

Rocher then relates this assumption about research to the country as a whole: «If Canada, as a political community (and a national community, as is used widely in the vocabulary of English Canada) is composed of two global societies -LSB-...], scholarly production related to it must reflect this reality if it wishes to be inclusive and comprehensive.»

talked about the importance of asking «stupid questions» — the ones that challenge the existing realities and assumptions in a given industry or sector.

«Obama's EPA cut the midterm evaluation process short with politically charged expediency, made assumptions about the standards that didn't comport with reality and set the standards too high.»

Current EPA head Scott Pruitt said in today's release that the Obama administration «cut the [review] process short with politically charged expediency, made assumptions about the standards that didn't comport with reality, and set the standards too high.»

«My major concern over the long term is: is the assumption in the pricing about adoption consistent with reality?

«My major concern over the long term is: Is the assumption in the pricing about adoption consistent with reality?

Too often, job seekers make assumptions about job search that are not based on facts or realities.

Other women develop their own negative feelings because of jealousy, especially when naive assumptions about being «the mother» in an instant family give way over time to the reality.