Sentences with phrase «dependent upon a reality»

In other words, the concept's truth is dependent upon a reality beyond abstraction.

The former — religious experience — need not be highly articulated nor even highly conscious of God as God; it may be vague, diffused, and unformed, yet also a deliverance of what it feels like to be dependent upon a reality greater than anything human or natural.

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Mr. Hayward says he believes in God because he perceives God as an immediate reality not dependent upon evidence.

Not only does reality depend on God for its initial existence, but it is dependent upon him for its continued existence: «No being is there, whether moving or unmoving, that exists or could exist apart from Me» (X. 39; cf. IX.

Second, he who understands the world and himself as created perceives nature, history, and his own being as radically contingent, radically dependent upon God, radically subordinate to the Creator in both worth and reality.

Recent speculations in physics resulting in theories of a finite world of space - time have however been taken by some philosophers as warrant for belief in some infinite reality «beyond» the finite world, upon which that world is dependent.

Indeed, process thought maintains that the very reality of God's concrete nature is completely dependent upon what each actual occasion of experience contributes to it.

But what we are trying to describe, by each of these abstract terms, is essentially dependent for its reality upon the continuous functioning of the total organism, with all its essential physical organs and biochemical processes.

It is very likely that everything that we think we «know» is extremely inaccurate and completely dependent upon our own experiences and that the «reality» we think we know if either false or just severely incomplete.

Further, it should be said plainly that we are also constantly dependent upon more proximate realities, all of which are surrogates for our ultimate dependence.

This dialogue with others is often a purely technical one and hence itself belongs to the world of I - It, but the compelling conviction of reality which it produces is entirely dependent upon the prior (if forgotten) reality of the meeting with the Thou.

He may be said to be «beyond being,» if by «being» one means the totality of finite things, but also may be called «being itself,» in that he is the inexhaustible source of all reality, the absolute upon which the contingent is always utterly dependent, the unity underlying all things.

Reality: This statement is basically meaningless because modern Human civilisation has developed within and is dependent upon a reasonably stable climate.