Sentences with phrase «attempt at an analogy»

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.

I used this analogy earlier in my attempt to get at the significance of Jesus as what has traditionally been called the incarnation of God in human existence.

The analogy I used when I was startled by a similarly lame attempt at proof by an otherwise intelligent fellow grad student is that using the bible to prove the resurrection is like using the Old Irish tales I had been studying then to prove the superhuman powers of Irish folk hero Cu Chulainn.

Gregory's analogy: A pastor may at first drink clear water, benefitting from the lofty wisdom of tradition, and graze in the pastures of scripture, but while he is in the pastoral charge he may be thoughtlessly churning up the clearest water and trampling the best grass from which others will later attempt to drink and feed.

Its first recorded use in 1939 was a very informal analogy, not a serious attempt at naming, and it covered the last 4,000 years!

O.K. Steven, you have just demonstrated that you are not willing to engage with an analogy that demonstrates the error in your reasoning, and hence I can now be sure that you are not making a genuine attempt at rational discussion of the science.

It was a pretty lame analogy used in a navel - gazing attempt at professional empathy.

Mr. Finkelstein attempted to distinguish the contract at bar from both contexts, since drawing those analogies may raise different issues and further complicate what his client was trying to achieve.