Sentences with phrase «caused by this sense»

What's the change in your behavior caused by this sense of emotion that you feel?

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Powerful questions infuse a sense of possibility and cause the mind to consider new options, thus expanding the mental boundaries posed by previous paradigms.

The company claims a 30 - day snapshot makes little sense, as it makes it difficult to tease out real sales trends from short - term fluctuations, caused by things like discount programs.

Opportunities to be involved with «good causes» at the local level, many of which are enabled by employers, provide millennials with a greater sense of influence.

There is also a sense among analysts that investors believe the worst may be over in terms of public opinion, though that remains to be seen given the outrage over the disaster caused by the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in April.

When that proverbial tide rolls out, owning investments that are fairly valued and that minimize the distortion that's been caused by years of central bank quantitative easing will make sense.

They say then that it is more simple to believe at once in the eternal pre-existence of the world, as it is now going on, and may for ever go on by the principle of reproduction which we see and witness, than to believe in the eternal pre-existence of an ulterior cause, or Creator of the world, a being whom we see not, and know not, of whose form substance and mode or place of existence, or of action no sense informs us, no power of the mind enables us to delineate or comprehend.

In what sense is God the «First Cause,» and what is meant by «secondary causes»?

A second sense of nature refers to those essential qualities of a thing that define the kind of thing it is in terms of both its distinguishing features and above all its final cause, its end, its telos (the latter sense classically formulated by Aristotle as «The nature of a thing is its end.

This is one of two major exceptions allowed by our common sense to the general rule that finite physical events are explainable by finite physical causes.

The state - ordered assassination of terrorists, as currently practised by Israel, simply aggravates still further the hostility, hatred and sense of injustice, which were the original causes for the rise of terrorism.

Just as Hartshorne claimed that God is not only the knower of all, but known by all, he now claims that God not only causes all (in a supreme but non-determinative sense), but is the supreme effect of all.

Sidney Hook captures this sense of the vulnerability of the human condition when he defines pragmatism as «the theory and practice of enlarging human freedom in a precarious and tragic world by the arts of intelligent social control it may not be [a] lost [cause] if we can summon the courage and intelligence to support our faith in freedom...» (CAP 193).

But is it not likely that our male - dominated society «represses,» in Freud's sense, the realization that women guided by instinct and pleasure alone could cause far more havoc than men motivated by the same factors?

Christians regard themselves as a Chosen People in the sense that to them has been entrusted the message of God's grace to sinful (selfish) man in Jesus, who was shown to be the Christ by his coming alive in the Christian community where, because the fear of death is gone, the rule of love replaces that grasping for security which is the cause of sin.

With this view of the universe, this common sense of how it works, it is entirely reasonable to explain a thunderstorm as the anger of God, or a victory in battle as caused by favorable divine intervention.

If our modern common sense of how the world works is that it is essentially a closed causal system, with finite physical events to be explained by finite physical causes, is there then any room left for God?

There is also a sense in which he can be called a dependent cause of the world, for his function as a concrete causal agent in the forward movement of process is itself shaped by the way he has appropriated previous stages of the developing world into his own reality.

Now, ultimately, Ely can not have it both ways: if God can not unmake the past, then it is not true, in any simple sense, that God causes the evil to disappear by changing it into a good.

If this is all that is said, an explanation is given (in the sense of course in which metaphysical statements aim at «explaining» anything) of the aspect in which the act is more, but not how the act founded and sustained in that way, is not only the act of the finite being because it is received in it, as Aquinas puts it, but also because it is posited by it as a cause.

There is always a small fraction of any society that lacks common sense and believes their problem is caused by «those» people.

The difference between Cartesian dualism and post-Cartesian materialism, accordingly, can be formulated in terms of the «material cause» of things in the Aristotelian sense — that is, the «stuff» that is instantiated by actual things.

A great deal of the world's unhappiness is caused by the fact that people who have to live together — as husbands and wives, parents and children — and who in a deep sense really love each other, still do not understand each other.

The good common sense of this book's argument against the Enlightenment - induced idea that religion causes war is, in the end, not overcome by the problems noted.

In various combinations and with differing emphases, the concept of God with which many Christian thinkers have tended to work has been composed of exactly those ingredients; absolute power, stark moral demand, and unconditioned (essentially unrelated, in the sense of a two - way movement) «being - itself» as the ultimate cause of everything not - God, but not in anyway affected by that which was not itself — and the neuter here is highly significant, ens realissimum.

Shermer, editor of the magazine Skeptic, and himself an atheist, senses that these other writers are threatening their very cause by adopting styles of rhetoric which are hostile and condescending.

The task it sets me is not to defend my claims (as, oddly, no claim I made was attacked) but to clear up serious confusion» caused, I sense, by two things.

The remainder of this section will defend the interpretation that: 1) strictly speaking, the categories are neither causes nor effects in terms of either efficient or final causality as those modes of causality are manifested by the concrete; 2) nevertheless, there is a sense in which the categories always require a current divine final cause; 3) furthermore, there is a sense in which the categories always require all previous divine (and subdivine) efficient causes (and hence all previous final causes); 4) finally, there is a sense in which the categories always constitute what may be termed «quasi-efficient causes» and «quasi-efficient effects.»

Although we differ on at least one point in the interpretation of Whitehead's philosophy (he holds the system to require that God acts efficiently by mediating to present events finite efficient causes derived from the past), I do not see how his God acts coercively in any of the senses outlined in the previous chapter.

We will be compelled by our very sense of duty to seek to cultivate the spontaneity our dutifulness has caused to wither.

Now, the occasions which cause us to call a society «living» are characterized by a certain freedom from domination by the physical past, and just to the extent that they are characterized by novelty they too become unlikely candidates to «register» on our sense organs.

Because each occasion actively appropriates its past (in a manner determined also by the way in which it receives novel possibilities into its experience) 1 it is, in a sense, self - caused, a causa sui.13 There is no absolute passivity in this fundamental mode of perception and causation.

Freedom in this libertarian sense stands in contrast with «compatibilism,» which says that our freedom is compatible with our decisions and actions being fully determined by some other cause, whether this cause he God (theological compatibilism) or molecules (cosmological compatibilism).

From the earliest times the latter sense of the word was more common, as may be seen by St. Augustine's statement: «the deliberate sin of the first man is the cause of original sin» (De nupt.

It is unfortunate that a country of this stature, who rules the world, from the skies like a god, and lacks comprehensive leadership to deal with these pressing issues... where are the Presidents akin to our late leaders that took the initiative and got things done, America has become a cold, hostile place to live, We lack the sense of unity that made us what we are... There are hundreds of thousand unemployed, Why can't the government promote an agency akin to the peace corps, that utilizes the young folks sitting on their a $ $ and make them earn their unemployment check by working in this storm zone, to rehabilitate and get these folks back on their feet... it would promote a culture of selflessness and charity and would without a question cause a paradigm shift in the minds of our youth, This is what makes a nation great!

«Wrote» is taken by some scholars as meaning «dictated» or «caused to be written» in an indirect sense.

I am referring to the fact that the fervent effort to please the powers we rely on for our sense of self - esteem may cause us to deny those aspects of our existence that seem to conflict with the conditions of worth held out to us by family, school, fraternity, sorority, church, government, place of employment, etc..

If a being were surviving as a cause in only one personal nexus, and if that series were to die, as it eventually must (or even to forget some of its past, if «negative prehending» makes sense), and did so during a divine concrescence, some of the being in the last actual occasion (s) of the series would become, contradictorily, «nonbeing» before it could be prehended or saved by divinity.

Two traits of classical theism were that it either (like Stoicism and Spinozism) clearly and consistently denied human freedom (in the straightforward sense of actions being not wholly determined by their causal conditions) or else ambiguously or contradictorily affirmed and denied causal determinism — truly classically in Aquinas's statement that God strictly causes our actions but in such fashion that we were also free to act otherwise.

The new questions and controversies caused by Pentecostals» public presence will oblige them, albeit grudgingly, to rethink the sense of omnicompetence that usually characterizes sectarian mentality.

the second goal was caused by wilshire long balling it to sanchez wouldnt that pass make more sense with og.the shot were sczezney saved it accidentaly was caused by chambers making the overlap and then getting cmpletley ignored only for ox to dribble infield and loose the ball on the counter

When someone like Paul Merson says «Brendan Rodgers to Arsenal is a no brainer» It all makes sense because Paul Merson is brainless (possibly caused by too many headed balls).

Make no mistake, your baby starts life with an underdeveloped sense of height and the injuries caused by falling.

That's why it only makes sense that about 79 percent of equipment - related injuries are caused by falls, according to the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.

To get a better sense of the cause of the accidents and how they might be prevented, Cusimano and his coauthor scoured the medical literature looking for studies that examined injuries caused by TVs.

The metallic taste is caused by changing hormone levels, in particular oestrogen, which plays a role in controlling and moderating the sense of taste.

Thirdly: If a book doesn't acknowledge point number two then it is likely to be causing guilt or shame to be felt by those who don't agree with the experiences of the author and is therefore one which I would see as causing readers to lose their own sense of self.

In addition to its role in establishing parental authority, the Ezzos present the the schedule as the mechanism that causes the baby to sleep through the night by seven to nine weeks of age — thus providing incentive for tired new parents who might otherwise abandon the program and parent by common sense and instinct.

The reception of oxytocin from the mother to the infant through skin to skin contact triggers regulation of body temperature as well as a decrease in heart rate due to the relaxation caused by the emotional sense of safety also caused by oxytocin reception.

We will say that if your child is healthy, but is waking in the night, demanding nursing an increasing number of times, is afraid to sleep alone, causes you to get broken sleep, or if you sense that you're losing the joy in your spousal relationship, the Parenting by Connection process of weaning your child from your bed can help both you and your child greatly.