Sentences with phrase «claim about the nature»

And while that's not illegal, it is against the law to make false claims about the nature of the service or lie about being affiliated with the government's Direct Loan Program.

What is the main difference between my claim about the subject of my dream and your claim about the nature of reality?

These groups, which encourage students to grapple with bold truth - claims about the nature of God and the meaning of life, are tapping into a hunger for truth too often ignored in the classroom.

Elsewhere, Berger elaborates by pointing out that religions provide legitimation and meaning in a distinctly «sacred» mode, that they offer claims about the nature of ultimate reality as such, about the location of the human condition in relation to the cosmos itself.

This conclusion is not only a biological claim; it is also a claim about the nature of reality.

Hence, because religious concepts and symbols entail claims about the nature of reality, metaphysical analysis is not only permissible but imperative according to the very logic of these claims.

Nor did studies on the topic «support any specific claims about the nature of professional development that affects teachers» effectiveness.»

Not exact matches

The agency has been trying to make this better, or at least it has issued a report about making it better, but FDA approval is by its very nature anti-Valley, the opposite of moving fast and breaking things — which is why so many health trackers and similar devices (even apps) are very careful about their claims.

He was moved to the Downtown construction zone and the Learning Village, where his friends told me he was asked to mislead city officials about the nature of the project, skirting zoning codes and the permit process by claiming a permanent structure was temporary.

WASHINGTON — After more than a month of talks, and amid complaints about the nature of the investigation itself, President Trump's advisers have not committed to him testifying in the investigation involving Russian interference in the 2016 election and claims that the president may have tried to obstruct justice.

to claim that is the essence of your belief (and it is a belief) about the nature of existence & live as though there is actually some subjective purpose... it's simply existential schizophrenia.

Surely he is aware that millions of people have relied on that same method throughout history, and through it have come to diametrically and often violently opposed conclusions about the identity, nature, and desires of the being they claim to be perceiving.

How sad to claim to be a chaplain and not be able to tell a dying patient anything about the specifics on the other side of the veil; what will happen to a person who has died, what they will be doing, what is the exact nature of God and those who depart from this life.

Reading the account of how this professor expressed himself about the author's experience with the dying begs the question in my mind, - How many religious scholars and clergymen are as truly enlightened about life, death and the nature of things as they self - satisfyingly claim to be doctored in religion?

Once you characterize God as eternal, omniscient, omnipotent, not subject to or constrained by the laws of nature you can claim anything you want about him.

to ascribe anything but evil intent to the Pope's motives make one suspect that it is not one decision that is the real problem: it is really about the fact that the nature of Catholicism and the role of the Pope have at their core a claim so audacious as to provoke outrage.

Although, the various orthodox schools of Hindu philosophy have different views about the nature of Vedic revelation, they accept the authority of the Vedas and claim that that their thinking is based on these scriptures.

However, when it comes to the various resurrection stories it becomes difficult to make any claims about the specific nature of what actually happened.5 What is important, of course, is the reality to which these accounts bear witness.

and, if god is going to punish someone for something in which they have no choice (also a claim made by blog christians), what does that say about the nature of god?

Claiming to be not simply an accidental nineteenth - century invention but a timeless truth about human sexual nature, this framework puts on airs, deceiving those who adopt its distinctions into believing that they are worth far more than they really are.

12 In other words, an adequate trinitarian theology can not develop a notion of God's actions in history that is incompatible with its claims about God's own eternal nature.

If, as Zennists claim, such endeavors lead us to learn something about the fundamental nature of our own experience, they might also lead us to learn something about the fundamental nature of God's experience.

The third step, with its claim about creativity may be the crucial one for the nature of Kaufman's particular project.

What it invites is critique from theology; its claims about human nature and its status in relation to divinity call for elaboration.

This puts Hartshorne where he wants to be, because to intuit (prehend) actual occasions as they occur is to intuit (prehend) them formaliter, as they exist in the immediate subjectivity of concrescence, and since God is everlasting, and experiences all actual occasions formaliter, actual occasions are preserved everlastingly (in their full, warm, subjective immediacy) in the consequent nature of God.6 This interpretation resolves the question of the status of the past, the problem of how the past is given as datum for concrescing actual occasions, and the question of a ground for truth claims about the past.

Those who call our attention to contemporary social problems commonly try to heighten our concern by making often unjustified claims about the unprecedented nature of the challenges before us.

More must now be said about why, conceptually, it is important to see that religious commitment involves making serious claims as to the nature of things, what the setting of human life is like, as well as serious claims as to how human persons should behave in that setting.

Although few Protestants would still claim that the United States is an «almost Christianized» nation, the Victorian way of thinking about the world, God, and human nature still influences theological discourse.

This is true in two ways, (1) the self - definition and standard claims of science as a whole, and (2) the beliefs about nature that shape its inquiries.

We are so quick to point out the obvious lies about Jews and Israel that come out in Egypt — the Sinai Governors claims that the Mossad released a shark into the Red Sea to kill Egyptians, or, as I once read in a newspaper whilst on holiday in Cairo, the tale of the magnetic belt buckles that Jews were selling cheap in Egypt that would sterilize men on contact — yet we so rarely examine our own misconceptions about the nature of our history with the Egyptian nation.

And in fact this is just what we claim when we say that through his life and teaching we learn the deepest truths about the nature of God.

It lies in the very nature of Christian faith to claim for itself — or for its Lord — the whole truth about man's existence before God.

This cumulative impact not only creates a certain «like it or lump it» impression, but it virtually invites the undecided critic to dismiss Barth for being hopelessly unyielding and for claiming to know more than any creature can about the nature and purpose of the one God.

Since His love - in - operation is His essential nature — He is love, which is His «root - attribute», not aseity, as the older theology claimed — the other things said about Him (transcendence, immanence, omnipotence, omniscience, omni - presence, righteousness, etc.) are to be understood, as I have already argued earlier, as adverbially descriptive of His mode of being love rather than set up as separate or even as distinct attributions.

Claiming to be not simply an accidental nineteenth - century invention but a timeless truth about human sexual nature, this framework puts on airs, deceiving those who adopt its labels into believing that such distinctions are worth far more than they really are.

Creator Nic Pizzolatto claimed to be surprised by the nature of True Detective fan engagement: «I've enjoyed reading people theorize about what's going to happen because it's a sign that you're connecting.

As for the adults who came to us claiming to have discovered their «true» sexual identity and to have heard about sex - change operations, we psychiatrists have been distracted from studying the causes and natures of their mental misdirections by preparing them for surgery and for a life in the other sex.

Morgan had earlier complained (EEV) about Whitehead's treatment of mind in CN as wholly distinct from nature, and objected to Whitehead's earlier claim that the study of their relations constitutes metaphysics rather than philosophy of science.

This thinker, whose name I shall not disclose, said that he was becoming more and more convinced that there was «something in the older metaphysical — he called them «ontological» — claims; at the moment he was much concerned, he said, to find a way of giving more than linguistic status to such propositions as «personal God», for it appeared to him that these statements somehow pointed to a truth about the universe, about the nature of things, that must be reckoned with in any honest description of the «way things are».

Unlike Mill, for whom this is an empirical claim about human nature, however, Hartshorne views it as an implication of a Whiteheadian metaphysical system which is held to be valid for all possible states of the universe.5 In this system, experiences (or «feelings») are the primitive constituents of all reality.

Most Intelligent Design theorists claim to be agnostic about the nature of this intelligent designer, but many will admit privately that they think that the intelligent designer is God.

@ Flanders You're right, atheism doesn't claim to know anything about the nature of the universe.

Yes, there is a lot of abstract, esoteric speculation going on there about the nature of God, but if we believe we are people made in the image of God, and especially if we also believe we are called to incarnate that image to the world, then that incarnated life will be, or at least should be, defined by the life of the God we claim to image.

This may be about to change, however, thanks to new scientific research that claims cheese to be one of nature's «naturally functional» whole foods, with no negatives either from fat or sodium content.

Of course it would be silly to suggest that winning any game, cup or otherwise, isn't good for the club, but let's remember just how problematic FA Cup success has been for this club... I'm certainly not going to suggest I didn't enjoy seeing Arsenal win, I'm a fan of this club first and foremost, but how bad are things when you find yourself secretly wishing that your own team lost so that just maybe real change would finally come... I resent this team for even making me feel such thoughts and it's going to take a lot of effort on their part to earn my trust again... this club has treated the fans so poorly that it has created an incredibly fragile and toxic environment, so much so that a «what have you done for me lately» mentality has emerged... fans rise and fall depending on the results of each game because we don't have faith in those in charge to make the necessary changes to personnel and tactics... each time we win many fans attack any dissenting voices and make unrealistic claims about the players, the manager and the potential for unprecedented success... every time we lose the boo - birds run rampant, calling for heads to roll and predicting the worst... regardless of what side you fall on, it's not your fault, both sides are simply overcompensating for the horrible state of affairs that have been percolating for several years... it's hard to take the long view when those in charge have lied incessantly and refuse to take any responsibilities for their own actions... in the end, we are trapped by the same catch - 22 that ManU faced upon Fergie's exit... less fearful of maintaining the status quo than facing the unknown, which was validated, wrongly or rightly, by witnessing the difficulties they have faced during this transitory period... to be honest, the thing that scares me most is that this team has never prepared whatsoever for this eventuality, which considering our frugal nature and the way we have shunned many of our most revered former players is more than a little disconcerting

Presenting what he claims is the first grand history of democracy for well over a century, he attempts to challenge many of our Western assumptions about the origins and nature of democracy and political institutions.

Claims about gerrymandering are political in nature.

Even when the NPP, at a news conference, said the chiefs and people of the region registered their displeasure about the nature of the road to Mr Akufo - Addo, NDC functionaries have dismissed the claim.

The man is nothing if not ambitious, but his grandiose pledges and claims about drawing inspiration from nature seem too good to be true.

According to the indictment, Silver attempted to hide his fraudulent scheme by lying publicly about the nature of his work, claiming that none of his clients had business before the state when he was in fact successfully being lobbied on state real estate laws by Glenwood Management.