Sentences with phrase «certain distinctions between»

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Bob, I would make the distinction between being a Christian, which is holding to a certain set of beliefs and wanting to follow Jesus, and belonging to a church.

«I take issue with the word to a certain degree, so I make a distinction between a capital E and a small e. I was in the Caribbean in 2004, watching the election returns with a group of friends, and when Fox News, in a state of delirious joy, announced that evangelicals had helped sway the election, I realized this word has really been hijacked.

Arminians often met this objection to foreknowledge by appealing to a logical distinction between necessity and certainty.5 The fact that God foreknows that choice X is going to be made (freely) means only that X is certain to occur; it does not mean that God's foreknowledge, or any other cause, necessitated X.

There he develops a distinction between ordinary language («It was very cold») and two other kinds of language, each of which transforms ordinary language in the interest of certain purposes.

One could hardly accept such an identification as fully true to Santayana's intentions, yet there is a certain intriguing affinity between Whitehead's distinction between perception in the mode of presentational immediacy and perception in the mode of causal efficacy and Santayana's distinction between intuition and intent.

In SCT par.36, Collingwood makes a distinction between eternal objects of historical thought and Whitehead's eternal objects and examines their relation: «The eternal objects of historical thought are concrete eternal objects, e.g., the revolution of 1688; Whitehead's eternal objects are abstract eternal objects, e.g. a certain kind of blueness, or (returning to 1688) the exact configuration of the splash made when James II threw the Great Seal into the Thames.

It is true that a distinction is made also in paganism, as well as by the natural man, between being in despair and not being in despair; that is to say, people talk of despair as if only certain particular individuals were in despair.

bio it's the distinction between not having enough information to be certain and making a definitive decision.

Some effort must always be made to distinguish between sayings of Jesus before his death and «sayings» of the risen Lord to the church, though we should never be very certain of any distinction.

Rather, it is a projection by a percipient subject onto a (fictitious) contemporaneous spatiotemporal manifold of certain highly refined and analyzed features of entities directly (but more vaguely and dimly) encountered in the percipient's immediate past through the mode of causal efficacy.8 The important distinction between true perception — what we might now in Rortyan jargon call nonmentalistic «unanalyzed raw feels» — and this second - order symbolic projection of select percepta characteristic only of higher - order conscious organisms is somewhat blurred by terming both equally «modes of perception.»

It is very important to see that panentheism is intended to be a mean between the absentee - God of deism — who is indeed also the God of much popular Christian teaching and preaching and of much supposedly orthodox theology — and the pantheistic God who is simply identified with the world as it is — an identification sometimes without qualification but more frequently with certain reservations that are thought to safeguard moral distinctions.

These two difficulties belong together as parts of one problem, but the distinction between them is valid and, for certain purposes (as, I believe, will shortly appear), valuable.

Shall we say with certain scholars that we can never regain the actual words (the ipsissima verba) of Old Testament personalities, or that any hard and fast distinction between what comes from the prophet himself and what had its origin in subsequent tradition is no longer possible?

I do indeed stand on the distinction between a priori (or metaphysical) and empirical in the sense given this distinction by Popper, except that, whereas Popper defines empirical as «conceivably falsifiable by observation» and apparently limits observation to certain forms of human perception, I sometimes include divine perception (in Whitehead's language, God's physical prehensions).

In 1 Corinthians Paul simply assumes that a certain kind of behaviour is unquestionably unacceptable, while in the same letter making very careful moral distinctions between matters covered by a «word of the Lord» (for example against divorce), matters he himself advises are best (keeping an unbelieving wife), and matters intrinsically indifferent where we must be governed by respect for the consciences of others (eating butcher's meat which may have come from offerings to idols).

The distinction between rights and tolerance is developed at great length in Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind (Simon & Schuster, 1987), a book that is bound to be controversial because it argues that an excess of tolerance has led our culture to turn away from a dependence on those classic texts in our national history which celebrate certain principles on which the country was founded.

It must be said that campaigning for the abolition of the death penalty has a certain allure for activists due to the clear - cut distinction between retentionist and abolitionist states, as well as the uplifting transition from one to the other.

The distinction between good and bad bacteria is attributed to Eli Metchnikoff, a Nobel Prize winner who observed that if we modify our flora to contain more of a certain bacteria, these harmless type of bacteria will replace the harmful ones.

Other research has found that, under the right circumstances, more options can actually make you more certain of your choice by heightening the distinctions between possibilities.

The mere distinction between experience and deliberate practice can help guide educators in imparting certain skills.

Since you, and the «major writing organizations» have distilled it all down to ««if you haven't made» a certain amount of money, you aren't the «real deal» (cliché) you must «draw a line in the sand» (cliché) «between AN writer and a professional author» (poor grammar) and «we should qualify a distinction» (redundant).

While the forensics into the failure of certain ARMs will go on for years, it's worth noting that there is a distinction which needs to be made between the product itself and how it is utilized.

Out of a personal alignment to what is in certain circles considered «sinful» behavior, Bas has produced works that illustrate his «hell»: a realm where darkness and light are not necessarily at odds with one another and there are no swift distinctions between the «good» and the «bad».

A certain material vagueness in pigmented paper pulp thus seems ideal for Stockholder, who has always enjoyed the erasure of distinctions: between gross matter and art, composition and formlessness, narrative and abstraction, sculpture and painting... «Having arrived at the Mill with digital prints of objects she photographed in her years and studio (bright plastic bowls and containers, a drinking bottle, some gaudy cakes that had seen better times) along with real objects (fabric swatches, the floor mat) she proceeded to collage and emboss them in stretches of pigmented paper pulp, working in collaboration with Paul Wong.

It's as if now the art and the image is not only reflecting a certain reality but somehow materialising it, in the same way that Amalia Ulman problematises the distinction between the performance and the person in her social media experiment in networked self - objectification, «Excellences & Perfections» (2014).

It's difficult to make a distinction between the different materials at first but upon closer inspection, it becomes noticeable that certain lines are drawn in pencil and ink while other are sewn into the paper.

He continues: «Matisse's late work does contribute quite prominently, if not iconically, to a certain strand in the conjunction of modernism and abstraction which blurs the distinction between art and design, and more specifically between abstract painting and the decorative and applied arts... I've always considered Matisse's greatest contribution to art not his colour, which is undoubtedly exceptional, but his inventive painterly architectures reasserting what [painting] does (what, in a way, it has always done), what it delivers, by the act of continual reinvention; finding yet more new ways to keep it alive — and of course, keep it keenly separate from design and the applied arts even when in the act of using elements of those very disciplines to elaborate and enrich the spatial structures of his painting.»

Let me begin with a caveat - the unsubtle distinction between my views on climate change and those of a certain other Seitz are set forth in the summer 1990 issue of The National Interest.

Personally I draw a distinction between asking for for data and methods and asking why he did things a certain way.

Earlier last month, the Connecticut Court of Appeals issued a written opinion in a Connecticut car accident case requiring the court to discuss the distinction between a judge's decision whether to admit certain evidence and the weight that evidence is afforded by the fact - finder once admitted.

The distinction between a licensee and an invitee is legally significant, but can be difficult to determine in certain circumstances.

The final rule, however, does not take this approach but instead draws careful distinctions between what a covered entity must do unconditionally, and what a covered entity must make certain reasonable efforts to do.

Although I do not think it necessary to decide today issues that are not even remotely before us, it does seem to me that a court could find simple analytically sound distinctions between certain private, consensual sexual conduct, on the one hand, and adultery and incest (the only two vaguely specific «sexual crimes» to which the majority points, ante at 196), on the other.

When underwriting the finance or purchase of a commercial real estate loan, a certain «Loan to Cost» (LTC) or «Loan to Value» (LTV) percentage is given as a limiting factor to the proceeds of that loan; however, LTC and LTV are very different and it's extremely important to understand the distinctions between the two.

For certain distinctions, like paying higher basis points for purchase money loans than refinancings, it is very unlikely a loan originator could steer a potential borrower between one or the other, so the new rule would likely permit it.