Sentences with phrase «coherence as»

Abstract: Objectives: Sense of coherence as a resource of resilience is closely associated with health and well - being.

to lose coherence as the what, why, and even how became less clear (Bailey 1988).

People experience coherence as a sense of inner calm and balance, an increased focus, while others experience coherence as a more relaxed state.

The Sagittarius Dwarf is believed to already have orbited the Milky Way about 10 times in the last billion years or so, and it still appears to have coherence as an elongated ellipse despite being torn apart by enormous tidal forces as a result of the interaction.

Now I'm hoping the team can make a fool of me in the weeks to come for allowing my confidence, in their coherence as a team, to be rocked badly by one game.

My problem with your interpretation is its lack of logic and coherence as exposed in my first post.

As bioethics has gained coherence as a discipline in recent years, it has given rise to a number of attempts to take stock of the nature and health of that discipline.

Thus our consideration would involve both other questions of correspondence and appeals to probability based on consistency and coherence as well.

Religion and Medical Ethics: Looking Backward, Looking Forward Edited by Allen Verhey Eerdmans, 160 pages, $ 18 As bioethics has gained coherence as a discipline in recent years, it has given rise to a number of attempts to take stock of the nature and health of that discipline.

However this may be, it is apparent that descent from Jacob could have been just as satisfactory as a basis of national coherence as an Abrahamic theory.

Not exact matches

The study defines gut thinking or intuitive decision making as something that comes «effortlessly from an unconscious, associative coherence detection process.»

It is essential to include China as a regular item in U.S. - European official meetings and to foster coherence in policy outputs.

As such, Walker's central challenge to process thought becomes his own theological struggle for coherence in a metaphysical scheme that denies what he affirms as fundamental to a black liberation theologian, i.e., that the most inclusive concept of God is the God of the oppresseAs such, Walker's central challenge to process thought becomes his own theological struggle for coherence in a metaphysical scheme that denies what he affirms as fundamental to a black liberation theologian, i.e., that the most inclusive concept of God is the God of the oppresseas fundamental to a black liberation theologian, i.e., that the most inclusive concept of God is the God of the oppressed.

The drive toward coherence, I believe, forced him (and later his followers) to reject that notion and to admit that God, as everything else, must be in time, and changeable.

It is a well - crafted work of art, well worth studying for the formalistic criteria it suggests regarding what should count as good dramatic structure, literary composition, conceptual coherence, and affective import.

Moral beliefs include such concepts as duty, obligation, responsibility, and sacredness of the person, while manners include such beliefs and needs as communal harmony, cultural coherence, and dignity of the person.

Such a view would not be quite so absurd as might at first appear: the divine temporal evaluations would seem to be no more arbitrary than those of the constitution of the primordial nature in Whitehead's view; and the divine subjective aim toward the maximum of value intensity, together with the property of everlastingness and the Categoreal Obligations (constituted by the primordial nature) of Subjective Unity and Subjective Harmony, would seem sufficient to insure the mutual coherence of the growing series of divine temporal evaluations.

In this sense the above argument can be interpreted as an argument for the coherence of classical theism.

It is also our duty as Americans to be acquainted with and appreciate the motley of particulars — individuals whatever their kinds or styles or stations in life, ideas whatever their seeming worth, practices whatever their scope or legitimacy — that are encircled by the horizons of that coherence and purpose.

Just as those glued to their television sets for six or seven hours a night reasonably prefer sets with PIP (picture in picture) which let one see the action of more than one channel at once, to enhance surfing (at the loss of coherence, if you value that), so, too, do workers chained to computer monitors for eight or more hours a day naturally prefer to have a large screen with 16 million possible shades and hues of color, with a number of programs opened at once.

It is our duty as Americans to know and appreciate the systems of belief — the mythic cosmologies, the scientific laws, the common - sense attitudes — that in times past have served to give coherence and purpose to our life together.

The sense that the kingdom was at hand and that a new age was dawning gives coherence to Jesus» ministry, but such a belief would have been controversial, just as a generation ago many white South Africans could not see how the apartheid regime could ever be changed.

Such a balance of distaste might well hint at the coherence and integrity of sectarian Christianity in the U.S., at least as it concerns such churches» ability to incorporate socially marginal groups into a community that provides the basis and the tools for purposeful and materially sufficient existence.

It is necessary to reread the Declaration as a whole in order to see the logic and coherence of its claims.

The Faith movement's push for such coherence involves affirming, in a neo-Augustinian manner, the dynamic relationship of spiritual mind (whether of the absolute God or of the human soul in his image) with the objects of its knowing, as a metaphysical first principle.

The sacred teaching of Jesus is when posting in a foreign language use spell - and grammar check as to make yourself and give your insane ramblings at least the appearance of coherence.

On the other hand, precisely because coherence is, for Hartshorne, a criterion of adequate metaphysical formulation, a discussion of any one aspect of his thought implies comments upon his philosophy as a whole.

Similarly, although many schools do excellent work promoting knowledge and understanding of racism and poverty, it is much rarer to find even Catholic schools having Pro-life Awareness Weeks as a standard annual whole - school activity in which pupils are encouraged to understand the justice and coherence of Church teaching on abortion and related issues.

This involves the need of a magisterium on earth which is truly that of Christ, and proves its credentials and divinity by its continuity and coherence, whether to men it is «welcome or unwelcome» as St. Paul puts it to Timothy.

Editors, for their part, regard most writers as paranoid egomaniacs ungrateful for the selfless efforts that extract a modicum of literacy and coherence from unpromising texts.

that could be regarded as authentic by the criterion of coherence, even though some of them, e.g. that of the shepherd, are so close to both Judaism and the use of the early Church as to be suspect on the criterion of dissimilarity.

So atheists don't force absence of religion only the absence of religion as it pertains to the coherence of the rule of law, ie the state.

As one might expect, however, if the reformers» arguments share the strengths that come from coherence with the modern view of the nature of moral and social agency, they also suffer from the weaknesses of these views.

As Hall explains it, this method follows certain procedures.: «The categorical notions are axiomatically organized, allowing for relevant deductive procedures which define the limits of applicability and the mutual coherence of the categorical notions within the scheme itself» (CE 12).

Nevertheless, our special interest is to carry forward Whitehead's work as a cosmologist, that is, as one who tried to bring some measure of coherence out of the fragmentation of the physical sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities.

Presuppositionalist he was, but there are two things he would point to further: the coherence of the presuppositions in matching the world outside of the person, and the fit between the presuppositions and the human life as the holder lives it.

Hartshorne agrees with Whitehead on this point, endorsing his definition of rationalism as the «search for the coherence of the presuppositions of civilized living» (LP viii; CSPM xvi).

The usual assertions are (1) that this kind of religion is today on the defensive; (2) that the defensive posture is occasioned by the flourishing of «conservative churches» (although the alleged liberal enervation is also seen in more autonomous terms); (3) that the growth in religious conservatism and conservative churches is itself the result of widespread reaction against «secular humanist» values and against those who hold such values; (4) that our society as a whole has been experiencing a breakdown in moral consensus, a loss of moral coherence somehow connected with a decline in oldline Protestant dominance; and (5) that some or all of these happenings have been quite sudden, so that the early 1960s can be taken as a kind of benchmark — as a time before the fall.

In the first instance there could be reasons of a rational logical sort, reasons which challenge the coherence of the concept of God as that concept lies among the other concepts central to Whitehead's speculative scheme.

Ideal first with the need for speculation to fulfill the twin ideals of adequacy and coherence with regard to philosophical theology, or «natural» theology, meaning theology insofar as it deals with data that are in principle universally accessible.

I have elsewhere formulated, therefore, a threefold set of criteria: first, the hermeneutical concept of truth as primordially «manifestation»; second, cognitive criteria of coherence with what we otherwise know or, more likely, believe to be the case; third, ethical - political criteria on the personal and social consequences of our beliefs.

As a hypothesis, this claim is to be accepted insofar as it is an essential feature of a worldview that proves itself in terms of the criteria of adequacy, coherence, and illuminating poweAs a hypothesis, this claim is to be accepted insofar as it is an essential feature of a worldview that proves itself in terms of the criteria of adequacy, coherence, and illuminating poweas it is an essential feature of a worldview that proves itself in terms of the criteria of adequacy, coherence, and illuminating power.

And as Feyerabend insists, we can not rule Out in advance the search for new unifying models (such as David Bohm's postulation of sub-atomic causal mechanisms), even though previous attempts have not yielded any new theories in better agreement with the data than quantum theory.11 Coherence remains an important ideal and criterion in all reflective enquiry.

«2 The larger issue raised by Kaplan's transnaturalism and Whiteheadian process theology is the coherence of the idea of a non-absolute God, within the framework of religious naturalism, as a theological and philosophical concept.

Such an approach empowers believing theologians, rather than pressures generated by secular thought, to set the theological agenda, and naturally inclines to maintaining the coherence of the Faith, with its hierarchy of truths and its four pillars (as evident in the four parts of the Catechism), as well as according appropriate status to pluralist or relativistconcerns and emphases.

This concept can not mean anything close to «unique coherence» which would undermine his pluralism, though he occasionally sneaks in other adjectives like «simplicity», «elegance», and «most satisfying» (p. 79) as well as implying a uniqueness to the «meaningfulness» of Christian living (p. 204).

My own judgment is that, despite the difficulties, the greatest coherence and intelligibility can be obtained when we think of the ontological structure of God as much as possible in terms of the structure of actual occasions.

Without such a systematic approach an historian will inevitably fail to see the internal coherence of notions that a superficial glance might otherwise misinterpret as contradictory.

Whitehead protests that while one may choose to use such a notion as a helpful abstraction, one can treat such absolute time as an actuality equal to all other actualities only at the expense of coherence.

Such moves often appear as ad hoc procedure in Whitehead's metaphysics, but the real issue at stake is the coherence and adequacy of the entire system.