Sentences with phrase «choice between»

Comprehensive theories are highly resistant to falsification, and there are no rules for choice between research programmes.

Given a choice between accountability to a community of truth - tellers and my own version of truth, I am regularly tempted to opt for the latter.

Contrary to Edmund Waldstein, the classical political philosophers did not think that politics is ordinarily a simple choice between rule by the virtuous and rule by the vicious.

It's a choice between finances or family.

Of course, Whitehead can not entirely avoid the description of a concrescence as a choice between given options.

Dr. Griffin thinks Hasker's reaction illustrates that more people need to realize they are not limited to the choice between traditional theism and atheism.

Given a choice between alcoholism and AA, keep drinking.

The choice between these possible futures is made, in a condition of chemical instability, by stochastic (nondeterministic) processes, such as random internal fluctuations of the system.

The general rejection of socialism in America by the by the 1850s, after an earlier flurry of interest, is to be explained far more by the victory of the ideology of individualism than as a choice between alternate ways to order a new industrial economy whose outlines were as yet hardly discernible.

It would be natural to interpret this as a choice between fully determinate options (i.e., an eternal object or a set of eternal objects), each option needing only the addition of «ingression» or «actualization» to make it real.

Thanks, I will, I will continue to believe that I am a child of God, put here to make a choice between serving myself or to serve and love him, I choose him.

Modern science really does not help us very much in the choice between theism and deism.

The choice between enough and more has always been a choice we could put off a little longer, in our own lives and in the life of our civilization.

• First, the Nicaraguan people made a logical choice in an election that the U.S. government, its UNO backed coalition, and its contra army all framed as a choice between ongoing war and «peace.»

With what secular faith do we match the zeal of militant Islam and combat the enmity of the impoverished peoples of the earth to whom the choice between war and peace presents itself as a choice of no significance?

Faced with the choice between hopelessness and God, too often we choose despair and wallow in the torments that such a decision brings.

The authors call this «genuine freedom» and define it as having «a real choice between genuine alternatives, unconstrained by necessity, and therefore strictly incompatible with determinism.»

In theory these two models seem to present a clear choice between quite different ways of approaching the Christian life, but in practice most American Protestants oscillate between them.

The reason is not, I take it, that the facts must be known if one is to understand the author's choice between alternatives, but rather that the resolution is in fact the retention of both the conflicting aspects, 2 and therefore exemplifies the truly paradoxical quality Brooks is seeking to establish as the generic characteristic of poetry faithful to reality.

When you are cast into the outer darkness, just remember you had a choice between truth and lies and chose the lies despite all the atheists I send to you to tell you of the truth.

We do not simply face a choice between «the primordial and transcendent reality of God and the kenotic and immediate reality of Christ.»

It permits freedom of choice between vanilla and tutti - frutti when the ice cream is going to be paid for.

The choice between the remaining alternatives is far more difficult.

This situation leaves people making a choice between culture and conservatism.

«In country after country,» he writes, «the choice between democracy and authoritarianism became personified in the conflict between the cardinal and the dictator.

There is no verse that states that God gives people a choice between living forever in a good place or living forever in a bad place.

The clear reading of Scripture is that mankind is given a choice between life and death.

John 3:16 gives the choice between «perish» or «everlasting life.»

So he now makes the ironic and pun - filled statement that we have a choice between anathema and maranatha.

Such a demand places the committed Christian in an impossible dilemma, a choice between the legal system and his conscience.

Best Point (nominated by Micah Odor): John Wilson at The Wall Street Journal with «No One Reads the Bible Literally» «What is at stake in these disputes is not a choice between following biblical authority on the one hand or science on the other, as the matter is often misleadingly framed.

Today I woke up this morning confronted with the reality that if a there had to be a choice between my life and the life of a woman, I would be expected to forfeit mine... on so many different levels.

@david, «I am all for freedom of choice but every choice has a consequence» yes just like the inquisitionists before you, everyone has the choice between believing what the church tells you and torture and death.

The issue of the structure of experience is often discussed as a choice between two epistemological theories: «realism» (in which «the known creates the knower» or the noetic pole depends on the ontic) and «idealism» (in which «the knower creates the known» or the ontic pole depends on the noetic).

It seems that in the end we only have the choice between life in ourselves or Life in God.

With regard to the universal stuff embodied in all actual things, the panexperientialist version of physicalism refuses not only the Cartesian dualism of stuffs but also the choice between the Cartesian material and mental stuffs (the choice that has led to the split, among would - be nondualists, between materialists and idealists).

By associating the false teachers with Paul's lawless past and inviting Timothy to emulate Paul's grace - filled present, Paul has set up the choice between faith and false teaching, between conscience and meaningless talk.

This outlook assumes that God is not giving humanity the choice between life and doom.

There is an expanse of choice between heaven and hell to choose from.

A choice between the two is unnecessary.

In that cultural setting, understanding was largely narrowed to a choice between expression in a literal sense or through cloudy abstraction.

Most scholars and pastors, however, recognize that this admonition needs to be balanced with other biblical passages that suggest individuals will at times face a very clear choice between God and Caesar.

But do enough people even see this choice between life and death?

For example, when given the choice between «traditionalist / conservative,» «centrist,» or «modernist / progressive,» almost all choose «centrist.»

I say that, and I think I mean it, right up until I have to make a choice between following the nudge of the Holy Spirit towards honesty or propping up my own reputation.

Because in the choice between loneliness and connection, we all ultimately want connection.

In the absence of rational solutions I believe we all have the choice between hope and despair.

That's why it's important to have an unpaid clergy, because sooner or later there will have to be a choice between worshiping God or worshiping the money, and 99.99999 % of the time the money will win.

Anxiety presupposes a choice between good and evil.

suicide isn't appropriate — it isn't a choice between life or death.