Sentences with phrase «called objective facts»

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.

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In fact, the minutes note that «some participants viewed the actual and expected progress toward the [Fed's] goals as sufficient to call for a relatively prompt move toward reducing policy accommodation to avoid overshooting the [Fed's] unemployment and inflation objectives over the medium term.»

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).

In fact, so much are qualia the inherent objective pole of all experience, reading Dennett's book suddenly made me realize what Bishop George Berkeley was driving at when he called his philosophy of subjective idealism a republication of common sense.

Therein he reaches a metaphysical understanding of creative process as the becoming, the perishing, and the objective immortalization of those things which jointly constitute what he calls stubborn fact.

«Coupled with the fact that maintained schools must follow the national curriculum, which from September will include a module on evolution at the primary level — the other thing we called for — we believe that this means that the objectives of the campaign are largely met.

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.

There are just so many issues when building that can drive you up the wall, from the fact that a contract's objectives aren't clearly listed which might mean you spend a while wondering why it's still saying you don't have a shield generator when you clearly do, only to find out the contract calls for two of them, not one.

Anyone with a head on his shoulders must know that they so - called objective scientists depend on government grants for their work and in fact their livelyhood and will not bite the hand that feeds them.

Another came to tell me that she was so shocked at what I was saying, and you must trust me on this point, I work to present objective facts as objective facts and to outline the rationale behind each position on political questions, that she called her father in China to ask if it was true.

Often, job seekers can not determine why they aren't getting an interview call — the problem could be the fact that they didn't write an objective to open resume!