Sentences with phrase «at conception seems»

The assumption that oreientation is set at conception seems QUITE limited.

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Unfortunately, humans seem to forget this fact when we find ourselves turning to nature to guide us through difficult choices, such as arguments about whether life begins at conception, or over the proper structure of the family.

2 Bernard Loomer's 1975 lecture on «Two Conceptions of Power,» delivered at the University of Chicago Divinity School, seems to me to be the major statement clarifying the process contribution to the concept of power.

Mormonism has no authoritative doctrine about how this conception occurred, but placing the origin of at least some aspect of Jesus» body in God the Father seems to deny the traditional teaching that Jesus was conceived solely by the power of the Holy Spirit.

This points to the relevance of Hartshorne's conceiving of God as «God in the making,» a conception Shalom seems to find comical at best and absurd at worst.

Despite Whitehead's protestations against Greek conceptions of perception (and he obviously had Aristotle principally in mind), we seem to have here, so far at least, a theory of sensing in many respects quite similar to the Whiteheadian.

At first glance it would seem that those higher expressions of religion which proclaim the triumphant realization of the Kingdom of God, or the sole reality of Brahman - Atman, or the blissful totality of grace or Nirvana, do not fall under such a conception of religion since they transcend a tension or opposition between the sacred and the profane.

If one accepts Whitehead's definition of time as «the conformation of state to state, the later to the earlier,» and if one assumes that the past really changes, then we would have no conception of time because there would be nothing definite or determinate for the present to conform to.12 The distinction between the past and the future seems to be at least partly defined in terms of determinateness and indeterminateness.

Neither his relational conception of space, which is basic for understanding his concept of extensive abstraction and which gave his theory of relativity its unique character, nor the problem of the bifurcation of nature, with its differentiation between the materialistic and personalistic outlook on the world, seem to be clearly in Whitehead's mind at this time.

«87 But Peter Cartwright, who actually during his lifetime did a tremendous amount for education by the distribution of literature and the support of schools, had such a conception of Methodism and the «Western world» as seems at times to have made him compulsively boorish.

But at the same time, Khloe Kardashian's repeated discussions about peeing on sticks and the difficulty of conception seem forced and insincere.

After surveying the spontaneous conception rates of women in their 20s versus women in their late 30s in this recent article, it seems reasonable to assume that a woman who is sustaining a pregnancy at age 47 has employed in vitro fertilization (IVF) with donor eggs.

But what might have seemed distinctive at its conception arrives after the superlative 2016 Inside, a similarly themed glimpse of totalitarian hell, and the grotesque vistas of 2017's Little Nightmares.

As for the CGI animals, Peyton gives them plenty of opportunities to wreak havoc, although at least one or two of those sequences feels better in conception than execution: though the large - scale destruction is all masterfully rendered — and it must be noted, brutally violent for a PG - 13 movie — he like many other modern filmmakers gets too close to the action, mistaking incomprehensibility for claustrophobia, and seems either unaware of or uninterested in even the basic physics of gravity, falling objects, and so on.

The aim of author Erika Christakis is to alter our conception of childhood and improve pre-K practices, and that seems to go along with not differentiating among children in any way at all.

Pedagogical content knowledge, in its classic conception, might involve knowing the kinds of mistakes that students are prone to make when engaging with new concepts, or being able to see and draw connections between two students» different representations of an idea that at first glance seem unrelated.

After seeing the magnificent Dawes Glacier, I felt slightly ignorant because I usually pride myself on knowing at least the basics about common conversation pieces — but this time my previous conceptions seemed quite silly.

As paradigms of creative economy seem increasingly at odds with interests of art workers, queer labor proposes alternate conceptions of work.

Meanwhile, what is coming to substitute our former conception would hardly seem to be a substitute at all: the looming specter of global ecological catastrophe.

That typically manifests itself as a drastic uptick in recruiter approaches at each career level when you update your LinkedIn in a way that doesn't seem to happen for people who stereotypically look like the media's conception of hackers.