Sentences with phrase «claims about reality»

There is data to back up these claims about reality.

Art is an activity of intelligence rather than will, and so it responds to what is real and makes claims about reality.

This is clear enough from the foregoing theological reflections on the relation between faith and justice; for whatever else faith and justice may be said to be, they have been shown to be possibilities of human existence, whose metaphysical implications necessarily include claims about the reality of the self such as properly belong to metaphysical psychology.

Insofar as engagement in this practice brings with it commitent to certain claims about reality, are they true?

They often imply positions about the truth value of religious and secular claims about reality.

The dispute is over two claims about reality, one contending that reality is ordered hierarchically into essential and accidental elements, one insisting that it isn't.

Presumably such a claim about reality is not metaphysical, but is this true?

Not exact matches

Results showed that those who scored lowest on Honesty - Humility claimed to have rolled the target number about 75 % of the time, when in reality, their chances of winning were only about 17 %.

More interesting than the headline - grabbing claim about extending life was the method of combining search engine data with wearable data to investigate the bodily impacts of augmented reality gaming, which mixes reality with computer graphics.

In reality, she claims she had a perfect performance score and there hadn't been any complaints about her performance.

Dr. Michael Hudson joins Double Down to talk about the economic reality behind the Trump voter and about whether or not, as it is claimed, Hillary Clinton is the «most progressive» candidate in Democratic history.

Charles Mizrahi, Founder Editor of the Park Avenue Investment Club, tells us about false claims and phony promises, the reality of «10 bagger» returns, and how to succeed in investing with the «Park Avenue Approach.»

Unfortunately, this knowledge is often denigrated by «blood - and - guts» exporters who wrongly claim that civil servants know little about the day - to - day realities of exporting.

Anyway, a lot of folks are making claims about what Brexit means for financial markets, but the reality is that there are so many possible permutations, nobody knows what the hell they are talking about.

Though there has long been skepticism about whether Cambridge Analytica was as effective as it claimed, experts expect this technology to only improve, especially as artificial intelligence and virtual reality steadily grow more powerful.

It's reasonable to think that there are other realities not represented by our big bang; it's NOT reasonable to make claims about beings who live outside our big bang and what they want for our species and whatnot.

And so long as we are postulating non-falsifiable claims about life and its origins, I submit that this universe is merely a virtual reality construct of an alien species, a la The Matrix.

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

Atheists decry the claim of Christianity to having truth exclusive to only believers, without realizing that the claims they make about truth and reality actually are just as exclusive and less factually - based.

I meant to say «There «really seems to be no connection whatsoever» between your claims about your religious nonsense and reality, just like you see between Catholic claims and reality.»

Yet no Catholic would claim that Revelation contains every true statement that can be enunciated about reality.

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.

But for those who think that claims about religion, ethics, or history should have some grounding in reality, Armstrong is considered an embarrassment.

There is, in fact, plenty of evidence that points toward the reality of God and that makes reasonable the Christian claim about Jesus Christ.

Islam mentioned this for the longest time and as you can imagine, at a time when people had no access or means to verify those claims (people like yourself, opted to disbelief and argue about the existence of God) but now that those scientific «discoveries» became realities and the same as supported by the Quran (that was sent to Prophet Mohammed, Peace and Blessings be upon him), from God), it only solidifies Islam as the true religion of God.

However, in the past few decades many Christian thinkers, recognizing the difficulty of supporting claims about cosmic realities, have emphasized the symbolic character of all such language.

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.

Today through careful and prolonged reflection, often requiring the aid of a trained counselor, we may gain considerable ability to distinguish between that which comes from our unconscious symbolization and the external reality we confront, although even the most rational of us should be very hesitant about claiming much success.

For anyone who is not already predisposed to believing that the imaginary is real, if his attention is called to the distinction between reality and imagination and he is explicitly reminded that the imaginary is not real, he's not likely to accept claims about imaginary things as truth.

If you can't think of anything more to get your panties in a wad about, when you CHOOSE to celebrate a holiday that has has is unrelated to what your religion claims to be the truth, you are in some serious need of a reality check.

I'd call «it» one's perceived «reality» though, there's nothing personal about what «others» claim to be real.

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

At one level every hermeneutic is exclusive in practice, as when «process hermeneutics» centers attention on the metaphysical claims of Biblical texts about the reality of God (e.g., see MEH).2 But «process hermeneutics» refuses to be reductionist in its theory of interpretation, understanding, and meaning; hence, its inclusive hospitality to «any and all disciplined methods of interpretation,» as Kelsey puts it (compare, e.g., RPIPS, especially 106 - 15).

Consequently, even though faith itself is an existential, rather than a metaphysical, matter, it necessarily implies certain claims about the ultimate reality of self, others, and the whole in its structure in itself as well as in its meaning for us; and the proper name for all such claims is precisely «metaphysical.»

On the basis of some remarks made by Whitehead himself about his thought and writings, Nobo proposes to refute Ford's claim that the views expressed in Process and Reality have been preceded by anterior stages of metaphysical systematization.

Camus's metaphysical asceticism — he refused all traditional claims about the sources and foundations of reality — was received by the postwar West as exemplary moral heroism.

We need such an account in order to prevent the breakdown of realism — doctrines are truth claims about objective realities — from leaving us unsure that the biblical narrative provides the datum of faith.

Christianity only really matters if the specific claims it makes about reality are correct.

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.

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.

His account of the history of metaphysics is simply too uniform and comprehensive in its claims, and as a result it misrepresents or fails to account for other realities about the history of Western thought that can not intelligibly be treated as part of a larger history of nihilism.

All you do is throw insults about and make pathetic claims that have no substance with reality.

After reading one of Dr. Mercola's health articles where he points out why Coca Cola's claim that Aspartame is safe is not so true, I thought about all the manufacturer of baby carriers out there claiming their product to be safe when in reality they are not.

Of course, I'm not talking about an absolute but a rule of thumb, and all bets are off when it concerns elected officials and others whose lives are in the public realm (celebrities, wannabes, MySpace exhibitionists, porn stars, bloggers), since there's no way a reality show contestant (for instance) can claim a reasonable expectation of privacy.

First, European commission president Jean - Claude Juncker said Johnson's claims about the EU were not «in line with reality».

Instead of grappling with the reality of the claims and what they said about the party, many activists painted a portrait of an establishment stitch up, designed by politicians and the media to undermine Jeremy Corbyn.

De Blasio said the Big Apple was struggling with «a different kind of homelessness» that's «more and more about economic reality» — a major reversal from previous claims that the problem was on the decline.

It claims the interrelatedness of matter and energy (a principle proven by Einstein) allows people to change reality to their liking by changing the way they think about it.

THE LURE OF POLITICALLY CORRECT DIETS For some high - minded teenagers, anti-saturated fat dogma may dovetail rather conveniently with pro-vegetarian arguments, 12 particularly because the search for «meaningful moral standards, values and belief systems» is a critical developmental task during adolescence.13 (It should be noted that moralistic claims in favor of vegetarianism often prevent earnest vegetarian teens from coming face to face with underlying farming realities — including the fact that sustainable farming requires enriching soil with animal products such as bone meal and manure.12) Recognizing the fact that adolescent boys also can be preoccupied with physical concerns about weight or athletic prowess, it is perhaps not terribly surprising that a sizeable proportion of teenage boys appear to be persuaded by advice that vegetarianism is a «healthy» lifestyle.

Reality and fantasy are disarmingly commingled in this superb film about a WWII pilot who claims he was accidentally chosen to die and must now plead for his life in a heavenly court.