Can you give me a «truth» that has been found any other way than
by the use of reason?
The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature; It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of Heaven, more than those at work upon ships or houses, or laboring in merchandise or agriculture; it will forever be acknowledged that these governments were contrived merely
by the use of reason and the senses.
In the nineteenth century, the First Vatican Council taught a world newly enthralled by the «death of God» that
by the use of reason alone mankind could come to know the reality of the Uncaused Cause, the First Mover, the God of the philosophers.»
It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of Heaven, more than those at work upon ships or houses, or laboring in merchandise or agriculture; it will forever be acknowledged that these governments were contrived merely
by the use of reason and the senses.
These duties do not contradict those we discover
by the use of our reason alone (and that we call the natural law).
We have seen that the Qur» an could not have human origins traceable either to the experience of Muhammad in the environment of his time or to his ability to construct the Holy Book
by use of his reason.
The world stands under a curse, even if the man does not recognize it and tries to find his way in the world
by the use of his reason, even if he seeks to understand it by means of the concepts of God and of omnipotence.
By the use of his reason, therefore, man can know much about God.
Not exact matches
For
reasons no one is sure
of yet, Apple has ditched Google - supplied data and is instead building its app
using information supplied
by GPS maker TomTom and a few other sources.
Wistia came to their vision
by realizing that people were
using their product for a multitude
of reasons — marketing, internal training, collaboration etc. — which looks great, but also makes it really hard to focus on everything.
Moritz, a former Time magazine journalist, went on to lament the lower numbers
of women studying math and sciences as the
reason why it's so difficult for the firm to hire more women — a popular excuse often
used by the tech companies with low diversity numbers.
The
reason many programmers are so excited
by these demos is because before Apple built ARKit into the iPhone, applications like these were really difficult to build — and nearly unheard
of when
using a standard camera.
From our definition there flows an important corollary: The riskiness
of an investment is not measured
by beta (a Wall Street term encompassing volatility and often
used in measuring risk) but rather
by the probability — the
reasoned probability —
of that investment causing its owner a loss
of purchasing power over his contemplated holding period.
These concessions are popular with families but Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page is calling for a review
of the government's
use of such «tax expenditures» on the grounds they don't receive as much review
by Parliament as program spending, among other
reasons.
Part
of the
reason for the lack
of filings — especially for a year that saw investor interest in cryptocurrencies surge — is that every single trade and purchase
using cryptocurrencies is considered a taxable event
by the IRS.
As for the 20 % who do not, the main
reason seems to be switching to a new device, followed
by websites refusing to show them the content they want if they are
using such a tool — nearly two - thirds
of respondents said they had encountered this problem.
«Part
of the
reasons active measures have worked in the US election is because the commander - in - chief has
used Russian active measures at times against his opponents,» Watts said, pointing to Manafort and Trump's citations
of fake - news stories pushed out
by Russian - linked entities last year.
And Bridget van Kralingen, senior vice president for industry platforms, told me about how blockchain technology is being
used by Walmart and others in the food industry to keep track
of the source
of food for safety
reasons, and
by Maersk in the shipping industry to greatly reduce paperwork and port time.
Coworking spaces are being
used by traditional companies for a variety
of reasons, some
of which just might benefit your own company.
While some companies attempt to address the impact
of macroeconomic factors
by using relative goals in their long - term incentive plans, the CNGC has determined that relative goals are not the right approach for Walmart for the
reasons described on page 50 above.
The deal about this kind
of services is that they only convert bitcoin into rubles and execute payments
by using the national Russian currency and so there are no
reasons for the Russian government to consider it illegal.
Unemployment, Marginal Attachment and Labor Force Participation in Canada and the United States Stephen Jones, McMaster University Craig Riddell, University
of British Columbia Jones and Riddell build on two previous papers: one
by David Card and Riddell (originally published in Small Differences that Matter) that studies the
reasons for higher rates
of unemployment in Canada than the U.S. in the 1980s, the other
by Jones and Riddell which
uses data from the U.S. Labor Force Survey to study the differences in rates
of job creation for people who are counted as unemployed versus those who are counted as out
of the labor force.
One
of the other
reasons for the ethereum boom and its continuing success is its
use by major ICOs.
The
use by the respondents
of the aforesaid false, misleading and deceptive statements, representations and practices has had, and now has, the capacity and tendency to mislead members
of the public into the erroneous and mistaken belief that said statements and representations were and are true and into the investment
of substantial sums
of money to participate in the respondents» multilevel marketing program and the purchase
of substantial quantities
of respondents» products
by reason of said erroneous and mistaken belief.
It shall be unlawful for any broker, dealer, or exchange, directly or indirectly, to make
use of the mails or any means or instrumentality
of interstate commerce for the purpose
of using any facility
of an exchange within or subject to the jurisdiction
of the United States to effect any transaction in a security, or to report any such transaction, unless such exchange (1) is registered as a national securities exchange under section 6
of this title, or (2) is exempted from such registration upon application
by the exchange because, in the opinion
of the Commission,
by reason of the limited volume
of transactions effected on such exchange, it is not practicable and not necessary or appropriate in the public interest or for the protection
of investors to require such registration
Because
of this
reason, cold press juice which is made
by chopping and crushing produce such as spinach, kale and ginger without
using heat, thereby yielding highly nutritious juice, has risen to prominence.
Using pay per click (PPC) isn't cheating, it's now one
of the top marketing tactics
used by big and small brands alike, and for good
reason.
By the recent statement
of Facebook, it's clear that every user has
used one or multiple third - party apps for some
reason at least once, which makes all users more vulnerable.
For this
reason it is therefore a good idea for beginning wet shavers to master the basic elements
of mix building
by using dry potted creams.
«The riskiness
of an investment is not measured
by beta (a Wall Street term encompassing volatility and often
used in measuring risk) but rather
by the probability — the
reasoned probability —
of that investment causing its owner a loss
of purchasing - power over his contemplated holding period.»
The
use of religious and cultural beliefs to encroach upon sovereign territory for political and militarily strategic placement is the
reason, whether it's sanctioned
by international policy or not.
So,
by your
reasoning, if «People put so much importance on words» (implying that they don't matter and we shouldn't take thought
of how we
use them) then I ought to be able to sing along with the lyrics from pac's «hit»em up» with my black friends, curse in a kindergarten class as well as a corporate meeting for my boss... what impression would a client have
of my boss if I were cussing in a professional meeting or at a charity event... it doesn't add up, it's a cop - out rebuttal... trying to find loopholes or applying «human
reasoning» like» ll take a swearing guy who's helpful» doesn't change Jesus or scripture it's just setting up a what - if scenario and trying to allow that to in some way justify your stance when again, that doesn't change The Holy Spirit or His heart in those who have been born again... the verses (inspired
by His own Spirit) speak for themselves.
Don't you see that children, 4, 5, 6 year olds can come to the same basic belief as you have, and they do not arrive there
by using reasoning abilities, but are usually lead there out
of fear or love, two very powerful emotions?
Third, the song
of reason's gift
by which we understand the
uses of nature to preserve and enhance the well - being
of humanity» humanity being the part
of creation that God became in order that we might become fully God's.
The
reason why it took me 45 years to come
of the closet so to speak is, I was always surrounded
by religion (school, tv), however I
used to think there was something wrong with me because I didn't believe and 90 %
of the planet did.
• Hell is
used by many as a good
reason in and
of itself to practice religion.
We (collectively) did not win that fight
by ripping the bible out
of everyone's hands, but
by a
reasoned approach showing that when the bible is
used to exclude and marginalize classes
of people it is being employed wrongly.
It was written
by many people over the span
of hundreds
of years, it is tribal rules from the infancy
of our development and arguably is not a good book at all but full
of hatred, spite and unspeakable violence, and you arent allowed to
use «faith» as your proof
of existence... faith is nothing less than the throwing away
of reason i.e. belief without evidence.
The American Search for Peace: Moral
Reasoning, Religious Hope, and National Security edited
by George Weigel and John R. Langan Georgetown University Press, 281 pages, $ 30 The «correlation
of forces,» as the Marxists
used to say, has dramatically transformed the international arena in the last few years, and some
of these essays may not take that adequately into account.
Use logic and
reason instead
of blind acceptance
of 2000 year old myths, written
by a primitive culture.
By sin you mean an ethical system determined by an intangible higher being vs one where you take full responsibility of your choices using logic and reaso
By sin you mean an ethical system determined
by an intangible higher being vs one where you take full responsibility of your choices using logic and reaso
by an intangible higher being vs one where you take full responsibility
of your choices
using logic and
reason?
in some ways memory is a better key to the nature
of experience than perception, not only because,
by the time we have
used a datum
of perception, it will already have been taken over
by memory, but for the additional
reasons: (a,) in memory there is less mystery concerning what we are trying to know than there is in perception [i.e., «our own past human experiences»]; also (all) the temporal structure
of memory is more obvious.
Webb's views reflect a perspective that is deeply held
by many Americans, and his
use of the standard resources
of theology to articulate these views is one
of the
reasons this book ought not be simply dismissed.
Without the
use of religion you'd have no
reason to deny the evidence but as long as you have that book that you require to get
by in this world, you will never see the facts for what they are.
Coyne has in effect acknowledged that the personal «
use»
of reason by our minds is intrinsically present in all our knowledge
of matter, and all our knowledge
of anything else.
«matt — just because we can
use science and
reason to explain natural events doesn't mean there isn't a god, case in point, rainbows, a sign given
by god to Noah can be explained
by science but is still a promise made
by god» But thats not proof
of anything.
Rather, the major premise
of scientific
reasoning is a hypothesis to be verified, grasped
by a fiduciary intention, to
use the words
of Michael Polanyi, or an act
of belief fed
by creative imagination, whose justification depends on the conclusion.
Many who hated Scalia's rulings could not help but be entertained
by his razor - sharp writing, which he
used especially in his dissenting opinions to carve up the majority's
reasoning (my favorite is Planned Parenthood v. Casey, where among other things he referred to the majority's «Nietzschean vision
of us unelected, life - tenured judges — leading a Volk who will be «tested
by following»» the Court's rulings obediently).
Two sentences in the discussion
of reason in the earlier version
of the report could be taken to support the
use of such analysis: «
By reason we relate our witness to the full range
of human knowledge and experience,» and «
By our quest for
reasoned understandings
of Christian faith we seek to grasp and express the gospel in a way that will commend itself to thoughtful persons who are seeking to know and follow God's ways.»
That realm
of nature which
used to be beyond human understanding and control, with which, therefore, one could only establish a creative relation
by means
of this hypothesis «God», is now more and more being conquered
by reason and technique.17