Sentences with phrase «choose an object of»

Not exact matches

The reason they chose gold versus other objects is important - gold has certain characteristics that make it a better «store of value» (as it is commonly known) than other objects:

Whereas God is always available to being taken by us as the object of our metaphysical reflection» we can think about him whenever we choose to» the praise of God that fills the Confessions is first elicited in us by God and is possible only as a response to his prior call to us.

You may object to one or more particular consequences of evolution because they defy the antiquated fairytale you choose to believe in.

Because before the foundation of the world, God decided to create some objects as «vessels of wrath» so that those who were chosen to be His vessels of mercy might glorify God all the more!

If, as the Scriptures and experience tell us, all men are by nature in a state of guilt and depravity from which they are wholly unable to deliver themselves and have no claim whatever on God for deliverance, it follows that if any are saved God must choose out those who shall be the objects of His grace (Boettner, Predestination, 95).

What is chosen therefore is one of those types of act which «in the Church's moral tradition have been termed «intrinsically evil» (intrinsice malum): they are such always and per se, in other words on account of their very object, and quite apart from the ulterior intentions of the one acting and the circumstances.»

The DOE, for example, offered the state of Nevada $ 10 million per year to relinquish its legal right to object to hosting a high - level nuclear repository, and $ 20 million per year if the site were to be chosen.

But if he had to choose between philosophical realism — the belief that the objects of our thinking correspond to real entities — and antirealism, then «I'm clearly a realist,» Hauerwas says.

It is the sense of the term that one object is freely chosen from among multiple possibilities.

The wordless counting involves two capacities, the first being «seeing numbers» or choosing the object with a certain number of points on it from among a group of objects with points differing in number, size, color and arrangement.

The Jews object that they have never heard anything about a suffering Messiah; Jesus affirms himself to be the suffering Son of man and Messiah, and invites them once more to choose.

By what criteria do we absolutize the principle of autonomy independent of the object chosen — even when that choice entails the destruction of innocent human life?

Basically freedom is not the capacity to choose any object or mode of conduct, but the freedom of self - understanding, of saying Yes or No to oneself, the possibility of deciding for or against oneself which corresponds to the knowing subjectivity of man.

They do this without the free decision of the individual, and thus this sphere of freedom does not remain empty, but contains a definite choice of objects from which man may choose in an always finite decision.

The essence of freedom is certainly not to be understood as the mere possibility of choosing between a number of objects, one of which is God.

I point out, however, that even Christian does not fully explicate Whitehead's doctrine of the relational essence of eternal objects as is attempted in this paper, for he chooses to focus on the internal relatedness involved in objectification rather than the internal relatedness that also obtains between eternal objects themselves.

«Since therefore the objects of sense exist only in the mind... I choose to mark them by the word idea» (l: xxix).

In summary, extending Whitehead's doctrine of eternal objects to include the idea that they form a dense continuum seems to raise at least two problems: (1) it requires that God consciously prehend a nondenumerable multitude of propositions regarding every past actual occasion and (2) it requires either that a new concrescence choose its subjective aim from a nondenumerable multitude of alternatives or that this multitude somehow be restricted before all these alternatives are prehended by the occasion.

The concrescing actual entity would not only choose among a set of determinate possible identities (a set of eternal objects), but it would also create, within certain limits, the identity it chooses (it would determine, within certain limits, the eternal object it chooses).

Such intervention can be regular and predictable on the basis of intuitions of the order of eternal objects in the primordial nature of God and can, therefore, be taken into account in the planning and responsible free choosing of men.

But this double «betrayal» stemmed from a single motivation: Weil objected so adamantly to the national idolatry endemic in European (and particularly French) Christianity» the conceit that «holy France» was God's chosen people» that she blamed Israel and its God for inflicting the idea of election on the world in the first place.

I ventured an interpretation at that time, and, now that the theory of objects has been discussed at least in its broader outlines, I choose to return to a brief support of the interpretation which I then put forth.

We can only praise him for having chosen the religion he knows best as the object of his critique, and can only admire the loyalty with which he agrees unreservedly to submit Christianity to criticism.

In this essay, I have referred only to the book of Genesis and thus have chosen not to mention the prohibitions against homosexuality included in Leviticus, for it seems to me that what is at stake now is not homosexuality, which is a fact, a reality, whatever my view of it as a rabbi might be, but the risk of irreversibly scrambling genealogies, questions of legal and social status (the child - as - subject becoming child - as - object), and identities — a confusion that would be harmful to society as a whole and that would lose sight of the general interest in seeking the advantage of a tiny minority.

It may be objected that my own present Here - Now is arbitrarily chosen since it is continually shifting toward the future; and that the future events are included in the causal past of my future Here - Now.

Hartshorne does ask why Anselm chose his formula, «That than which nothing greater...» and answers, «I suppose because he takes it for granted that by «God» is meant the universal object of worship, and if God could have a superior, then only the ignorant or superstitious would worship Him» (p. 26).

Indeed the love command is described by Furnish as a duty independent of feelings, as being measured by comparison not with self - love but with divine love, as unrestricted in nature and scope, and as requiring the whole person including our feelings, and as not able to pick and choose its object.

Instead of using parents choosing which child should go to hell and which child should go to heaven, they talk about some inanimate object, like a bushel of apples.

The privileged classes were perhaps blinded to the social ramifications of allowing a woman to choose a weapon, make a mighty swipe at an object, and then chase that object at a brisk pace.

The World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action points out that «When feeding bottles are used in public for fear of public exposure of breasts, or when women's reasons for choosing bottle - feeding include fears that breastfeeding will alter the shape of their breasts, then women are being treated as sex objects.

You need to also ensure that your chosen gym has good child developmental benefits such as improvement of cognitive skills like gripping and grappling of objects, self - awareness, optical sensitivity, and gross motor advantages for your child.

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends transitional objects for children and notes that if you don't offer one, your child will probably choose one before the end of his first year.

Baby can choose one of them at a time and begin to learn how the appearance of an object relates to the way it feels in her hand and how she has to hold it.

Elana — first — you are doing a good job second — at 9 months your bubba is learning about object permanence — if he fusses when you leave the room — he is developmentally right on track don't worry — it doesn't last — and is actually a good sign — it signals that he is well attached to you — which is highly desirable in terms of raising happy well adjusted children that are willing to explore their world He isn't to young for independent play — It just might be for a little while that it happens while he can see you As he chooses to — allow him to move himself out of your sight (somewhere safe of course) i.e around the edge of a couch, through a door way etc — playing disappearing and reappearing games like peek - a-boo and hiding things under boxes / blankets for him to «find» etc is good too as time goes on — he will learn that things re-appear when they disappear

During the first few months of life a child can focus on an object 8 - 10 inches away, but does not see detail, so it's good to have bright contrasting colors with defined edges when choosing gifts for newborns.

We looked at each number and chose the right amount of objects to go on each tree.

When 7 - month - old babies see an experimenter reach toward one of two objects, and then are given the opportunity to reach toward those same objects, they unsurprisingly choose the same object as the experimenter.

Choose between normal mode and continuous scan mode to get the speed and distances of objects in the distance.

In a preliminary follow - up study directed by Lillard, 16 girls and boys, ages 3 to 6, chose between playing with 10 real objects, such as a microscope, or toy versions of the same objects.

The axiom of choice states that if you have a collection of sets, you can always form a new set by choosing one object from each of them.

These virtual black holes were more complex and realistic than his original renderings because users could adjust the size of the hole, choose what kind of object to feed it, and change the viewing angle to watch the action unfold.

It would have been more poetic to choose the Tower of Pisa for his thought experiment: Galileo, in his own legendary experiments there — truly legendary, because he probably never actually did them — had shown that objects of different mass and composition are equivalent in that they undergo the same gravitational acceleration.

After each video they had to choose a picture of an object that matched the pantomimed video.

Alex Zelinsky, Australia National University professor of robotics and CEO of Seeing Machines, says his lab began developing the system in order to build a robot that can fetch objects chosen by a disabled user; the robot proceeds by monitoring his or her gaze.

Sites in the Atacama Desert and the island of La Palma — already home to major astronomical facilities — were chosen ahead of rival sites in Namibia and Mexico for the northern and southern portions of the CTA, a $ 297 million facility that will allow astrophysicists to study some of the most energetic and distant objects in the universe.

A number of objects — usually represented by mathematical points — chase each other, so that at each instant each object is moving directly towards some other chosen object.

John Wheeler, scientist and dreamer, colleague of Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr, mentor to many of today's leading physicists, and the man who chose the name «black hole» to describe the unimaginably dense, light - trapping objects now thought to be common throughout the universe, turned 90 last July.

He chose his targets based on their strange appearances, but astronomers later realised that many of the objects in Arp's catalogue were in fact interacting and merging galaxies.

Swansea University Egyptology lecturer Dr Ken Griffin has found a depiction of one of the most famous pharaohs in history — Hatshepsut (one of only a handful of female pharaohs)-- on an object in the Egypt Centre stores, which had been chosen for an object handling session.

With such scarcity, astronomers must carefully choose the objects that interest them and propose projects to a «time allocation committee» of their peers, who judge whether the project merits a place on the telescope's overloaded schedule.