Sentences with word «cogency»

Draw a conclusion based on cogency in order to determine: Are these axioms correct, are they relevant, do they necessarily lead to this conclusion, and with what probability?
To be sure, if we concentrate on constitutional discourse, examining it for cogency or intellectual coherence, there is cause for frustration.
His defense of the theological cogency of Pius IX's actions relies on the assumption that baptism creates a duty for the Church to educate a child, a duty that overrides the rights of parents.
One way of viewing the religious crisis of our time is to see it not in the first instance as a challenge to the intellectual cogency of Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, or other traditions, but as the gradual erosion, in an ever more complex and technological society, of the feeling of reciprocity with nature, organic interrelatedness...
In discussing the classical attributes in the second group, I shall cast a cursory glance at Hartshorne's other arguments against those attributes and suggest that they lack cogency.
Therefore I am satisfied there is evidence of sufficient cogency and the evaluation of risk is such as to justify the orders sought.»
None of these mostly un-inspired abilities work in appreciable way in tandem with each other and I expected a lot more cogency in the way these powers would be employed.
Lauren Nelson, a communications specialist and VP at Aesthetic Cogency, in a LinkedIn post says, A well - written cover letter is more important than an impressive resume because it reveals your work ethic and attention to detail.
There's a certain cogency to Apatow-esque stories of 30 - and 40 - somethings longing to retain their youth, but «Digging for Fire» hits so many wrong notes that, frankly, it's an embarrassment to the genre.
Hence, the suggestions that arise from the application of the general scheme of thought to this special question of the nature of God may be weakened or may gain cogency according to the reading of these great intuitions of the race by which men live.
Again and again he returned to this matter as though deliberately trying to take a word whose cogency every one acknowledged and make it connote a range of meaning it had never suggested before.
He does claim that the ideas and arguments developed in Christian natural theology are intelligible to those who do not accept the claims of revelation and that if they are sufficiently open and interested they can be led to see the decisive cogency of the reason that is employed.
It looks as if they had on their hands a solid piece of tradition, which they were bound to respect because it came down to them from the first witnesses, though it did not add much cogency to the message they wished to convey, and they hardly knew what use to make of it.
It is impressing how Christianity conquered the civilized world (Roman Empire) without using violence, just by its inherent cogency.
Many of the current «young evangelical» writers grew up in the «60s, and could not resist the perceived cogency of certain cultural trends — for instance, racial and sexual equality, or nonviolence.
There are judgments of style, of logical cogency, and of ethical purpose, for example, which can not possibly be summed up in a single grade.
Along the same lines he also defended the principle behind Humanae Vitae with particular cogency, not as an isolated concern with sexual issues but as a vital aspect of the total vision of human nature integrated into Christ.
By contrast, propositional cogency, communal obligation, and inherited norms were increasingly marginalized or repudiated altogether as unacceptable constraints on subjective flourishing.
Such an intuitive or ecstatic insight often possesses a compelling urgency that lends it the character of logical necessity; i.e., at times the vision seems to impress itself upon cognitive awareness with forceful cogency.
John Cobb is surely right when he argues that all conceptual schemes are wanting in their own cogency and in need of sympathetic, frank criticism.
The inherent message in prophecy has authoritive moral cogency so as to to resonate veracity.
Doubtless it would be of little cogency to point out that in some cases there is no invocation of divine action; this could well have been implied.
It's also a dazzling example of philosophic cogency.
This change in the trend is largely been nurtured on account of two primary developments in the educational technology domain: first the increased cogency of social media proliferation and social blogging in the everyday life of a learner, and second, the advent of smart phones and the increased verity of mobile learning.
Frankenthaler described her own work as «pictures [that] are full of climates, abstract climates and not nature per se, but a feeling... «2 She was uniquely able to coax cogency from painterly accident - achieving images that are a unique blend of eastern and western styles and recalling at once calligraphic landscape painting and analytic cubism.
«The veteran abstractionist Mary Heilmann is famous for what may at first look to be fast, brushy messes but which hang together with the mysterious cogency of free jazz.
To remediate an ozone - soaked reality one must turn to the remote language of monetized values and create cogency within the unnatural.
Justin Mortimer's paintings reverberate with a fore - knowledge of Baconian flesh and torpor, and that quintessential Freudian cogency and mass that forever changed the idealistic template of the figure in painting into an expression of a post God mortality.
He has rare cogency He understands so many dimensions of the problem and connects all the dots.
In Franbar, the defendants argued that the claim was brought with «insufficient cogency» and the damages suffered had not been made out.
The court will require evidence «exhibiting a high degree of clarity, persuasiveness, and cogency before substituting the terms of a written instrument with those said to form the parties» true intended course of action.»
Finally, this new mutuality requires that both communities respect the integrity of the secular order, and do so with theological cogency.
It means that his ethical theory, and hence his religious philosophy in turn, has, by means of an encompassing or mystical insight, ontological significance as well as moral urgency and rational cogency.
Chronicling the historical connections between the Jewish people and the land of Israel from ancient times to the present day, the film delivers its passionate case with convincing cogency and a wealth of scholarly information.
In fact, Eleanor King J was surely entirely correct in saying of the first instance decision that: «Far from any of the s 3 factors tipping the balance in favour of the daughter's claim, the court was left with a filial relationship and necessitous circumstances, with nothing more of sufficient cogency to drive a court to conclude that, in all the circumstances of the case, no provision for the daughter was unreasonable provision.»
She displays one heck of a lot more cogency, saliency, intellect and character than FOMBS or S.H.A.M.E ever has.
The mass of the sand forming landscape structures would appear arbitrary — yet it is actually very carefully poured, using the shape and weight of the sand to its greatest cogency, both physically and visually.
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