One is inclined to say that anybody who is well adjusted to contemporary society is
by definition very maladjusted indeed, because contemporary society is as mad as a coot and is something to which nobody ought to be adjusted, even in this land, not to speak of others which may be less fortunate than ours.
Not exact matches
«It's a
very particular asset, it's a speculative asset
by definition looking to the developments in its price.
Protocol
by its
very definition describes a code prescribing strict adherence to correct etiquette.
On top of that, being an entrepreneur,
by its
very definition, means always doing something for the first time.
In this article in The Tyee, Andrew Nikiforuk levels some
very serious allegations with respect to the National Energy Board, suggesting that the Board has been captured (see * below for
definition)
by industry, that it can not be objective because it is industry - financed, and that it does not appropriately balance the interests of energy companies -LSB-...]
But because this «something» is
by definition a surprise, it's
very difficult to correctly time.
The
very best growth stocks can deliver returns of a hundredfold or more after decades of growth, although
by definition only a tiny handful of the thousands of companies listed will ever reach blue chip status.
By very definition, every fossil out there is a missing link.
Secondly, the Hadith are,
by definition, hearsay, pure and simple — and sometimes
very remote hearsay, and some instances, are pure fabrications while others stand in direct conflict with each other.
God,
by it's
very definition, is a SUPER-natural being and therefore can not be proven or disproven through Science.
You seem to be
very confused
by the
definition of atheist.
someone witnessing something and then passing it along to another is
by its
very definition «second hand» info.
An atheist could never be president because that person
by reason of the
very definition would be unable to take the oath with the hand on the Bible.
By Hartshornean
definition, this is
very easy to prove because the concrete is always more inclusive than a merely abstract notion.
By some
definitions atheism is
very stupid.»
The cognitive dissonance it inspires brings out the best and the worst of human nature — a concept that is flabbergasting to Naturalists as religious faith,
by its
very definition is unquantifiable, unprovable and totally subjectice.
In fact, community is
by its
very definition the state of self - consistency, mutuality, harmonious inter-relation of individual personalities.
Theories are,
by their
very definition, unproven.
THAT makes gay marriages inherently detrimental to society, the
VERY same argument used
by pro-gay to prohibit polygamy, which BTW, is ALSO being proposed as an alternate
definition of marriage.
By its
very definition it is unprovable.
An unbeliever
by definition is someone with whom we do not share an ultimate court of appeal, although we may
very well share common penultimate criteria.
The latter part of this previous statement is important because even my rights as a human being are
by definition limited
by the
very fact that my fellow human beings have rights as well.
Unconditional Love is,
by its
very definition, beyond good and evil.
Encouraging discord,
by its
very definition does not bring us closer as a society.
So if you use a Greek Bible Dictionary written
by a Calvinist and compare it to a Greek Bible Dictionary written
by a Catholic, you will get some
very different
definitions of what is meant
by the word «justification.»
Now the Being of God is wisdom, truth, beauty, goodness and proportion
by very definition.
Actually no, the author is arguing believing in something that can't be logically defended; faith,
by its
very definition, is a belief not based on proof.
This is made clear
by the
definition of its
very proponents: «the theory of intelligent design (ID) holds that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained
by an intelligent cause rather than an undirected process such as natural selection.
But these are still * exclusivist * choices
by their
very definition.
Fashion is
by its
very definition impermanent: it is replaced at an ever increasing speed.
There is a difference between atheist and agnostic
by their
very definitions, and no amount of wiki postings
by you is going to change the
definitions of those words.
Lets consider the following: Taxes are
very low (
by comparison) in the majority of 3rd world countries and those countries are
by definition «3rd world».
In recognition of the boundaries derived logically from its
very definition, science must both defend itself from invasion
by, and at the same time resist the temptation to invade, other fields.
Thus «faith», the pattern of contemporary religious experience which is to relate us to God through Christ, can not
by its
very nature be built upon «the present evil aeon», with all that it provides of worldly security under man's control and invariably at his disposal;
by definition «faith» is the life given in death, and consequently has its basis beyond our control, is lived out of the future, is «an act of faith».
Also, isn't mercy
by it's
very definition us not getting what we deserve?
By very definition, our own embodiment is literally one of the most personal topics that we can think of.
It requires also that one resign oneself to an ultimate irrationalism: For the one reality that naturalism can never logically encompass is the
very existence of nature (nature being,
by definition, that which already exists); it is a philosophy, therefore, surrounded, permeated, and exceeded
by a truth that is always already super naturam, and yet a philosophy that one can not seriously entertain except
by scrupulously refusing to recognize this.
If you want to know WHY, I recommend infidels.org, which contains some
very good arguments showing that God,
by the common Judeo - Christian
definition, can not logically exist.
that's nt
definition of muder
by a god...
very poor... show me that God has noright to take life..
Design
by definition means that an idea precedes its embodiment; I know of no simpler or more rigorous argument for intelligent design than the
very existence of codes and language.
In that faith God is affirmed to be Love; and
by its
very definition love means relationships, influencing and being influenced, affecting and being affected, or in a word, sharing.
Any reason, why all tolerance and even knowledge should be held subordinate to the direction of those who
by the
very definition «believe that which they know to be untrue»?
But Leclerc himself regards substance as that which exists in itself, 22 so that it does not seem that any entity which exists in another complete substance or substances could itself be either a substance or a substantial principle, since whatever exists in another complete substance or substances must,
by the
very definition of substance, be accidental.
As to good uses... the majority of history disagrees with your opinion, simply because of percentages.Atheism is
by its
very definition an extreme minority among peoples.There simply have not been enough of them to be a serious contributing factor to the progress of mankind.Granted even a blind squirrel gets an acorn once in a while.
So
by it's
very definition, a perfect being can't mess with it's creation after the fact.
When I saw who had written that, my hopes for an intelligent, or at least receptive, government response to the campaign against gay «marriage» then getting under way died within me: those words were written
by Theresa May, the Home Secretary, and they appeared on the
very morning she launched a «consultation» on the government's proposals to enforce a change in the legal
definition of this ancient institution.
==================== @LinCA «So
by its
very definition, a perfect being can't mess with its creation after the fact.
Sacrifice,
by its
very definition, punishes the innocent.
Christians,
by the
very definition, believe what Christ taught as revealed in the Bible.
By this true
definition those
very few who love Wenger are true delusionals, whereas the huge majority of us are realists.