Sentences with phrase «crucial point of difference»

Specifically, we intend to show that the crucial point of difference, demanded by Whitehead's metaphysics, is the fact that for Aristotle a proposition contains reference to what is believed to be an actual state of affairs — either positive or negative — as a predicable within the proposition, and that Whitehead's theory does not have such an element.

Not exact matches

There are crucial differences between my own recent experience of the death of God and the theologies of Altizer and Hamilton, and the differences perhaps point to the varieties even of this form of «religious experience.»

Stop saying crucial time cause if we are going to wait for time we are top of the table and with 100 points difference why the hell would we sack him.

Their form in the league wasn't great either, as they followed a 5 - 0 thumping of Aston Villa with disappointing draws with Chelsea and Everton, and were then beaten in a crucial game with Manchester United, who won 3 - 2 at the Etihad Stadium with a last - minute winner from none other than Robin van Persie, who was indeed making a huge difference in the title race, as his goal put six points between league leaders United and City, giving Mancini's side a real uphill task to retain their title even before the half - way point of the season.

The are six points behind 17th - placed Swansea with a much inferior goal difference, so a win in this match is crucial, but with the exception of Swiss playmaker Xherdan Shaqiri, they have little talent to inspire optimism.

His centigrade scale, debuting in 1742, hitched its wagon to the freezing point of water and hung out its shingle (this might be a good moment to point out that there's a crucial difference between the stylistic sin of mixing metaphors and the stylistic choice of simply using two metaphors in hideously close proximity) on water's boiling point.

Stiggins (2005) pointed out the crucial differences between assessment of learning and assessment for learning; the former evaluates student learning after instruction, and the latter takes place during instruction and allows both teachers and students to more productively plan their activities and efforts.

Despairing, at this point, of ever getting you to recognize the crucial difference between processes with continuous, as opposed to discrete, spectra, I leave you to take pride in saving microsecnds of CPU time at the expense of greater generality of DFT programming.