The central idea of cultural cognition is that attitudes and opinions that people adopt are as strongly influenced by their cultural values and identities as they are
by objective fact.
The problem with this sort of analysis - by - feeling is when those subjective feelings are simply contradicted
by objective facts.
They don't go
by objective facts.
Not exact matches
I was very proud of the
fact that our waterfront corporation has installed what is
by most
objective measures a world - leading broadband capacity.
Consider this: Despite the
fact that CP is underperforming competitively *, CEO Fred Green, who's held the position since 2006, met 17 of 18
objectives set
by the board.
Here are some very telling
facts, drawn from thorough research done in 2011
by an outside,
objective team of analysts for a multimillion - dollar producer in the financial services field who markets to modestly affluent to very affluent boomer and senior clients.
Data that's accumulating from behavioural finance substantiates the
fact we are,
by and large, horribly wired to be
objective.»
Yes, the path is rocky, they say, but peer review, competition between researchers, and the comforting
fact that there is an
objective reality out there whose test every theory must withstand or fail, all conspire to mean that sloppiness, bad luck, and even fraud are exposed and swept away
by the advances of the field.
But we do see things consistent with the Bible, To take a concrete example, the Bible states that Israel wold be destroyed as a nation, but after a long period of time would become a nation again, It's a matter of belief whether the Bible made a God - inspired prophecy or a lucky guess, But it's a matter of
objective fact that Israel was destroyed
by the Romans and became a nation again in 1948.
The Jews history to manipulate and to achieve their
objectives has not chanced, in
fact by analyzing the State of Israel today, we see that they are a closed in society prisoners within their own castle, surrounded
by a concrete wall.
I hope their laudable
objective will not be hindered
by the
fact that they've all apparently been assigned and branded with religious and ideological identities before they're even old enough to comprehend the meaning of them, let alone make an informed decision for themselves.
In point of
fact Christianity is an elaborate web of such theories and claims, none of which is supported
by any
objective evidence.
The «socially just
objectives,» of course, were those determined
by the Hitler party; and we must not forget that, for the conscientious German of 1933, they were in
fact quite as clearly just as the
objectives set up
by the Communist party are for the communist (and even for a Christian of the extreme left), or as the
objectives fixed
by the American way of life are for the average American (and for the average Christian American).
The Protestant objection is that we can in
fact gain a more
objective view of the Bible
by direct study and can criticize the traditional interpretation from this point of view.
... In
fact, there is often mistrust in the capacity of human intelligence to arrive at
objective and universal truth - a truth
by which people can give direction to their lives.
Subsumed under this goal are four operational
objectives which may be seen as overlapping stages of treatment: Helping the alcoholic (a) to accept the
fact that his drinking is a problem with which he needs help; (b) to obtain, medical treatment; (c) to interrupt the addictive cycle and keep it interrupted
by learning to avoid the first drink; (d) to achieve a re-synthesis of his life without alcohol.
It is for such reasons that in the past those who were deserted
by a spouse were stigmatised in some communities; the
fact that divorce was viewed as wrong made it easy to conflate feelings for those involved with disapproval of the
objective evil of divorce.Likewise those who genuinely find that they are attracted to persons of the same sex have been unjustly stigmatised and alienated.
This is in
fact a resurgence in other terms and with other
objectives in view — of the error always committed
by Christians who intervene in the sphere of human actions to justify them and to testify that in the end man has good reason for doing what he does.
Newton's position that time is «
objective» and «rules» our measurement of time (not vice versa) is vindicated
by the
fact that we have a rational theory of clocks, i.e., we presuppose that all our clocks can and ought to be corrected, wherever we note irregularities.
In particular, the denial that epistemology is wholly prior to ontology; the denial that we can have an absolutely certain starting point; the idea that those elements of experience thought
by most people to be primitive givens are in
fact physiologically, personally, and socially constructed; the idea that all of our descriptions of our observations involve culturally conditioned interpretations; the idea that our interpretations, and the focus of our conscious attention, are conditioned
by our purposes; the idea that the so - called scientific method does not guarantee neutral, purely
objective, truths; and the idea that most of our ideas do not correspond to things beyond ourselves in any simple, straightforward way (for example, red as we see it does not exist in the «red brick» itself).
The cultural role of such edifying philosophy is «to help us avoid the self - deception which comes from believing that we know ourselves
by knowing a set of
objective facts» (PMR 373).
It is, in
fact, a clear example of the «
objective» masquerading as the «subjective,» and nothing makes this clearer than Kant's suspicion of all empirical actions as probably in
fact tainted
by some non-moral motive.
The
facts of science are not hard, cold, inert chunks of
objective information lying about in the external world waiting to be discovered and accumulated
by the industrious investigator.
Others still, forced to acknowledge what is undoubtedly the
fact, that the Gospels, every one of them and in every part of each, bear some trace of the community's response to and understanding of Jesus, seek rather feverishly to recover an irreducible minimum of
objective historical
fact by methods of literary and historical criticism applied with varying degrees of expertness.
Moreover, the
fact that, with the exception of Paul, only those who had already been followers of the earthly Jesus are reported to have seen the risen Christ appear to them, suggests that the Easter message was not something which could be pressed home
by means of any
objective proofs.
In
fact, capitalism has rendered society an entity in and of itself, which has ended up
by imposing its norms and its
objectives on all of society, where everything has a commercial value and we are heading for a state of total market.
The
objective nature of this property was expressed
by Whitehead in his claim that the space of consentient sets was a
fact of nature (PNK 31, CN 53).
In reality many of these accusations are greatly tempered
by a simple
objective look at the actual
facts of history.
The IPCC is not, in
fact, an
objective, neutral body that evaluates pure research; it is a dominantly political body controlled
by a tight group of true believers — an advocacy organization that only pretends to scientific objectivity.
at 484:»... any given
fact,
by virtue of its internal relations to all other
facts, reflects in itself the eternally
objective structure of the concrete world which includes it.
Whitehead's monumental construction of post-Cartesian philosophy, articulating the full and total integrity of intentionality through genetic analysis and the frill and total integrity of scientific order through coordinate analysis, depends entirely on allowing that the satisfaction aimed at
by subjective coming - to - be is identical with
objective physical
fact available for subsequent prehension.
Lamin Sanneh reviews a new work
by Leslie Newbigin in which Newbigin claims the focus on the dichotomy between «knowledge» of so - called
objective facts and «belief» in so - called subjective values is a dichotomy that is rationally indefensible.
Marx begins his account of the relationship of the two philosophers with a paradox: Epicurus held all appearances to be objectively real but at the same time, since he wished to conserve freedom of the will, denied that the world was governed
by immutable laws and thus in
fact seemed to decry the
objective reality of nature.
The firm says the
fact that both companies are based in Bristol makes it ideal to work together to achieve mutually beneficial
objectives,
by sharing resources, information and capabilities.
The research was conducted and analysed
by independent third party CSIRO Food and Nutrition Flagship: the results are
objective,
fact based, and backed
by Australia's leading scientists.
I love the
fact that brownies are
by their nature quite dense and a little gooey - this makes it easy to hide sight «mistakes» too (a light airy cake is typically much harder to achieve when keeping the above
objectives in mind!)
«While her smear campaign relies on character assassination and guilt
by association, this response is based on established and
objective facts.
Or the
fact that the whole postmodernist «there's no
objective scientific truth» was invented
by liberals in an era when hard sciences and enginering were a right wing corporate evil.
The study, conducted during the U.S. presidential primaries for the 2016 election, uses a series of statements
by President Donald J. Trump — then one of many candidates in the Republican field — to see how partisanship and prior beliefs interact with evaluations of
objective fact.
«The American justice system is built on the idea that it is blind to all but the
objective facts, as exemplified
by the great lengths we go to make sure that jurors enter the courts unbiased and are protected from outside influences during their service.
He cited a distinction drawn
by mathematician Phillip Griffiths: «Science is
objective, based upon
fact, value - free,» said Smith, while science policy «becomes largely based upon values.»
If you recognize that a colleague prefers to make decisions using logical,
objective analysis, then you can improve your interactions with the person
by emphasizing
facts and data - driven responses.
My main
objective in writing this article is to remind myself and others of the
fact that
by going too far afield from our ancestral diets we may unfortunately impart to others a fear of eating foods that have sustained mankind for thousands of years.
Look for solutions, and avoid making it personal
by sticking to
objective facts (i.e., «I spent six hours creating that presentation and emailed it to her, and my name doesn't appear as an author now.»).
In
fact what's going on is fairly straightforward: Dominika has been groomed
by her sleazy relative for «whore school», as she calls it, and is then sent off to beguile a US agent (Joel Edgerton), with the
objective of flushing out his mole in the Russian government.
The download pack includes: - Key activities scheme, week
by week learning activities - All worksheets which are ready to print or use on a whiteboard / projector / interactive whiteboard (the colour theory presentation is interactive)- Visual examples of final outcomes - Artist image powerpoint and
facts - Head templates for designs There is also a student self assessment book and presentation list for boards / sketchbook page content to allow the student to work towards the assessment
objectives in art.
One stated
objective was to address the «disparate impact» of policies that might lead to racial minorities taking fewer challenging classes than their peers, totally ignoring the obvious
fact that African American and Hispanic students are, on average, much less prepared for AP courses
by the time they reach 11th and 12th grade.
In
fact, Lowe and Wenger (1991, as cited
by Hillier, 2005) argue that the context in which people learn in order to maximise the effectiveness of teaching and learning must be identified and aligned with the overall
objectives.
My understanding is that there was a grievance filled
by the UFT due to the
fact that teachers can not be forced to write the
objectives.
In
fact, in New York, due to a flip — flop
by Governor Cuomo, there's a moratorium on using
objective measurements of how much students are learning.