Sentences with phrase «at the analogies between»

«By looking at the analogies between social science and biology, this work is pushing toward a unification between the two fields.

Not exact matches

My analogy was attempting to suggest an incommensurate gap between rational logical positivism (on the one hand) and the kind beyond literal and metaphorical thinking that aims at representing — well, religious faith, for sure, and all sorts of varied artistic representing.

The reality of the story is its power, and the point that makes it a parable is the analogy between the situation of the family and that of Palestinian Judaism at the time of Jesus» ministry.

Of course, the analogy breaks down at several points as Hartshorne acknowledges (OOTM 134), but the important aspect of this psychicalism is that there is a mutuality of feeling between God and elements of the world.

Insisting that the whole of Christian living consists, in this sense, in the enactment, or interpretative performance, of scripture, I drew an analogy at one point between the Bible and the U.S. Constitution.

There is also at least a general analogy between judgments of falsity directed towards utterances and disappointment of expectations for natural signs.

It is at that level that both the analogies and the differences between both thinkers must be situated.

The conclusion from this examination of the texts is that the analogy between molecules and electrons on the one hand and God and actual occasions on the other is without foundation and very misleading, since it lulls the unwary reader into feeling that since Whitehead at least implicitly acknowledges overlapping regional standpoints in the first instance (which we have seen to be false) then to say that God is omnipresent, meaning that the standpoint of God includes the regions which constitute the standpoints of all actual occasions, is merely an extension of a general principle which Whitehead at least implicitly endorses.

In this context, Gandhi stresses the analogy between Collingwood's reformed metaphysics and Strawson's descriptive metaphysics, two conceptions that, on Gandhi's view, have to be rejected.3 A concept of metaphysics such as that of Whitehead necessitates, on the contrary, «the analysis and critical evaluation of scientific presuppositions in connection with presuppositions of other domains of civilized thought (moral, religious, sociological, aesthetic, etc.), so as to arrive at a satisfactory conception of the most fundamental characteristics of all that we encounter in our experience.

Thus rationality takes over, crowding out the subtle discontinuities hinted at by the word analogy, and the tension between man's thoughts and what is other than man disappears.

One may reply that the analogy between there being no trees and no concreta at all does not hold because in the case of the trees there would always be some «cause» by virtue of which the trees would disappear; there would be a blight or a scourge, they would wither and die, etc..

At one point, he goes so far as to say that «the word God... stands for an analogy (difficult no doubt) between the thinking animal and the cosmos conceived as animate» (1970a, 220).

If the comparison is to be a just one we must, at every point of resemblance, take this difference into account, But when all allowance is made the fact remains that the analogies between the two systems arc so numerous, and so compelling, that reason forbids us to regard the parallel as either purely superficial or a mere matter of chance.

The method of analogy rests on the assumption that there is at least a partial identity of structure between the qualitative pattern of the event and our response to it.

Although analogies drawn between civic and academic life are far from perfect, I would insist that something like Nash's analysis of Philadelphia better captures the fabric of his and others» academic lives at UCLA than does the language of Gesellschaft.

And what analogy have we to justify the vast difference between us and God if divine love is only our love at its possible best?

The history of science provides many examples of this combination of analogy and innovation in the creation of models which were useful in generating theories.4 The «Bohr model» of the atom, in which «planetary» electrons revolve in orbits around a central nucleus, resembles the solar system in certain of its dynamical properties; but the key assumption of quantum jumps between orbits had no classical parallel at all.

At the time, most physicists working on electricity and magnetism were looking for analogies with gravity, which they viewed as a force acting between bodies at a distancAt the time, most physicists working on electricity and magnetism were looking for analogies with gravity, which they viewed as a force acting between bodies at a distancat a distance.

When I look at the natural world, I see a fascinating analogy between how plants engage animals and how teachers engage their students.

A more apt analogy would be between watching movies on a big screen in a theater and watching them at home on a television via a video cassette or DVD.

Here's an analogy compared to traditional funding vehicles: Other than not being FDIC insured - it's similar to a medium - risk two - to three - year CD, usually with no early surrender charges if you chicken out and want your money back before 24 months; that pays between 125 % to 150 % at maturity.

At this point the analogy between credit card affiliate bloggers and hotel booking sites is hopefully obvious: unless special bounties are being offered for certain credit cards, it is much less important to your affiliate blogger which credit card you get than the fact you get credit cards — as many as possible as often as possible.

Filmed at the Freud Museum in north London, it portrays the annual nocturnal cleaning of the psychoanalyst's collection, suggesting an analogy between the careful, almost ritualistic removal of layers of dust from the objects and the intimate excavations and disclosures of analysis, both of which are normally hidden from view.

It aims at finding analogies between the three, namely their common focus on the radical emancipation of the individual, the topic of the Second World War as well as their introduction of a new style of teaching.

The exhibition poses a relationship of visual analogy between Wesley's paintings and Andre's sculpture, looking at how each artist uses systematic approaches to different materials and subject matter.

Not surprisingly analogies of a shared sensibility have been drawn between Boursier - Mougenot's interactive floating bowl sound installation, and Monet's famous lily pad paintings at Giverny.

-- I'm not going to follow you down this road: I don't see that making analogies between radiative - transfer issues and linear electrical network elements helps at all.

By the way, for those interested in how claims such Richard Courtney's making an analogy between AGW and eugenics get started, I should note that a little more web research has shown that I appear to be incorrect in attributing it to Crichton... or, at least, for the implicit suggestion that Crichton was the original source for this idea.

A bouncing ball absorbs and re-emits energy... so the analogy is pretty good... when the balls hit the earth they bounce off in different directions... but they do bounce off... all the greenhouse effect can do is slow down the speed at which the balls bounce off through the atmosphere of the earth... a bit like wind resistance... the balls do not endlessly bounce backwards and forwards between the earth and the atmosphere... the balls just bounce off the earth through the atmosphere at a slower speed... so basically the greenhouse effect is just balls...

There is just no analogy at all between the way individuals manage their finances and the way it's done by governments.

The mirrors on two sides of the bulb has some merits as an analogy, you wouldn't doubt that the total flux of photons going back and forth between the mirrors sums to more than the 100 watts being input, but at equilibrium, only 100 watts escapes.

Sinclair had alluded to this point at the beginning of the evening saying, «there is an analogy between medics and architects: some of us work as plastic surgeons and some of us work in the emergency room.»

To borrow an analogy; there may be a range of sixty colours, each of which is so little different from its neighbour that it is difficult to make any distinction between the two, and yet at the one end of the range the colour may be white and at the other end of the range black.

First of all, without it being necessary to rule on a potential analogy between the tendering procedure relevant to the present case and the principles that are applicable in public procurement... it should be noted that the applicant's argument concerning that potential analogy is based on the fact that, at the end of the tendering procedure, no bid or no appropriate bid had been submitted.

But, Bielby J.A. acknowledged (at para. 39), the analogy between administrative proceedings and disclosure in civil litigation could not be pushed too far:

It also sits uneasily with the rejection in Huang (at para 17) of an analogy between immigration controls and domestic housing law.