Sentences with phrase «assumptions about the meaning»

So, too, does faith consist of certain basic assumptions: assumptions about meaning and value, certain attitudes about the proper way to relate to people and to the world, and certain presuppositions about what is most important and most valuable in life.

One little recognized factor in the usual formulations of Christology is a certain assumption about the meaning of the word man.

In such a case, the preacher must take into account what assumptions about the meaning of the text the congregation already brings to the hearing.

Even though the shot of Mozzhukhin's face remained identical with each cut, the audience made different assumptions about the meaning of his expression.

We would expect the atmospheric circulation to respond to such differences, but we make no assumptions about the mean state of the ocean below the surface.

Not exact matches

For millennials, this means examining large sections of the population before making assumptions about what constitutes success or failure in this increasingly strange and demanding modern economy.

I mean the basic framework and assumptions we use to talk about the practice and profession of management, our underlying beliefs about what corporate leaders and managers are trying to achieve, and how they go about achieving it.

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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.

But it belongs on the rump of the cultural right as well, for Robert Caserio has usefully defined «political correctness» to mean «a prefabricated sense of values, a predetermined set of assumptions about what is good for people and what is bad for them» (quoted in CHE 1).

No comparisons regarding the style or of word structures; just the content, or rather the interpretation of the content; all of which is based on the assumption that when Paul states in 1 Thessalonians about those of us who remain when Christ returns, Paul had to have meant he was specifically to just the people he was addressing to at the time.

Hey Clive, know you mean well but you've made a whole lot of assumptions about me.

The purpose is simply to expose what I've noticed to be recurring assumptions about what it means to be egalitarian, assumptions that do not reflect my own views as someone who believes men and women should work together, without hierarchy, to grow the Kingdom in the home, church, and world.

11 [Editors note: In Bohm's notes he has written: Bohr made «a kind of metaphysical assumption about language and concepts which means (as always with positivist, operationalist, or phenomenalist approaches) that we fix our concepts to those that have been developed before.»]

As with Murray and those who insist that the founders «built better than they knew,» what the founders may have meant is less significant than what they actually gave us and how that gift was destined to be received in an emerging culture infused with voluntaristic, nominalist, and mechanistic assumptions about God and nature.

And, although the poem from Pilgrim's Regress surely betrays the influence of philosophical idealism on Lewis's thought, it also shows certain Christian assumptions about what it means to be human.

«We were operating under the assumption that when they said COIN, that's what they meant,» said a senior U.S. military official in Afghanistan, «and they were serious about committing the necessary resources.»

The teacher's approach to such problems might start from three assumptions: (a) the teacher should be concerned with how science fits into the larger framework of life, and the student should raise questions about the meaning of what he studies and its relation to other fields; (b) controversial questions can be treated, not in a spirit of indoctrination, but with an emphasis on asking questions and helping students think through assumptions and implications; an effort should be made to present viewpoints other than one's own as fairly as possible, respecting the integrity of the student by avoiding undue imposition of the lecturer's beliefs; (c) presuppositions inevitably enter the classroom presentation of many subjects, so that a viewpoint frankly and explicitly recognized may be less dangerous than one which is hidden and assumed not to exist.

While I would avoid that term when it truly causes offense to people I'm in relationship with, I do feel it's important for the Church as a whole to aware of the term «Messianic Jew» and what it means once you dig beneath the assumptions about the title.

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.

If you make assumptions about the text, then you will not discover its meaning.

It begins with a rationalistic assumption about the attributes of God — as though we know what omnipotence and goodness mean — and then we put that concept of God to the test of our experience of evil.

Strict rules complete with diagrams and assumptions of motives, what started as likely a well - meaning experience to encourage modesty turned into a witch hunt and a theological confusion about responsibility.

GK Chesterton rightly noted that all arguments are theological arguments, that is to say, eventually all political and moral disagreements, if pursued for long enough, get down to the brass tacks of our basic assumptions about the ultimate meaning and purpose of human individuals and human society.

pervades discussions about Nativity plays, sometimes accompanied by a sort of coy laugh, an assumption that, officially, we're all meant to be either atheists or adherents of some non-Christian religion now.

They report on the fragment factually and avoid making any assumptions about what greater meaning it might have.

Our loss challenged our previous assumptions about the purpose and meaning of life.

Considering that you keep making assumptions about whether I would understand it, without actually providing any of the «proof» you claim you can come up with, I'm starting to think that you being «very happy and productive part» of the scientific world, just means you are an administrative assistant who knows how to copy and paste.

And as I scratched harder at the surface of my assumptions about what the liturgical life meant, I begin to wonder how I could live a liturgical life at home with my kids, celebrating all the lovely, ancient, traditions I was discovering.

Whip the egg whites in a mixer (heidi note: I'm still not sure if they meant whip or whisk... the recipe doesn't say anything about whipping into peaks, and it doesn't say anything later about carefully folding in the whites, so this time I went on the assumption that they really meant for us to whisk the whites a bit - folding in whites might be interesting too though, and might lighten up the waffles a bit.)

«Perhaps the most common false assumption about love is that it means we will not be challenged or changed,» hooks adds.

So please be careful trying to read people, it's not always what it looks like... and by no means make an assumption... you know what they say about assuming.

With all of the options out there about cloth diapers vs. disposable ones, formula feeding your baby vs. sticking with the boob, and deciding to eat your placenta vs. tossing it — and the assumption that, in most cases, choosing one thing means choosing only that thing to the exclusion of all other things, which is totally not how it works in real life — there is already too much to think about besides how everyone else feels you should decide to raise your kid.

If you're like most new or expectant dads, you probably have a few assumptions about what it means to be a father.

If there is a discussion it may include incorrect tacit assumptions by physician and parent about what the other really wants or means [63].

«Perhaps the most common false assumption about love is that it means we will not be challenged or changed,» hooks says.

(1) Your question is based on the ridiculous assumption that economy and politics is a zero sum game and that somehow being «for» middle class means you're «against» (or «don't care about») poor; (2) Leaving that aside, championing the case of 75 % of population over 25 % seems like a lot less of a political suicide than championing the case of 25 % over the 75 %, unless I don't quite understand how voting works in a democracy.

It could just mean the assumptions about these collisions are incorrect (SN Online: 9/24/15).

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

The indirect nature of the measurement means the calculations rely on an assumption about the energy spectrum — which could turn out to be wrong, invalidating that conclusion.

«It would mean that all our standard assumptions about space - time and effective local theories are wrong, at least when gravity is important,» she says.

This finding, combined with the discovery in 2000 of a pulsar that was older than previously thought, means that many assumptions astronomers have made about how pulsars are born and age must be reexamined, according to the researchers.

And I'm saying that your assumption is wrong and a common misconception about limiting fruit even in diabetics, but by all means keep digging your hole.

There is something about the intangibility of what fashion is, alongside a widely held assumption that there is something inherently trivial, even fake about it, that means any fictional portrayal of the world veers to caricature.

Ryan Faughnder and Daniel Miller looked at what the film's box office potential means, noting, «Crucially, «Black Panther» could help shake up the way Hollywood does business by defying assumptions about films with predominantly black casts and filmmakers.»

Even well - meaning teachers can fail to assume the leadership mantle in their programs by making the wrong assumptions about their students, or striking the wrong balance.

But, it raises profound challenges to the interpretation of score trends on high - stakes tests, to the meaning of achievement trend and gap reports in terms of percent proficient, to the interpretation of crossnational achievement comparisons, and to popular assumptions about testing of students in special populations (including some assumptions written into law).

An assumption of a 7 % return still means the fund has to double in value about every ten years.