Sentences with phrase «direct apprehension»

It consists of a certain widespread, direct apprehension of a character exemplified in the actual universe.

This «axiom» is consonant with Berkeley's emphasis on the direct apprehension of ideas as the principal basis of our knowledge of reality.

It is not hard to believe that Coleridge would have been highly sympathetic to, for instance, Whitehead's remark that «In our direct apprehension of the world around us we find that curious habit of claiming a twofold unity with the observed data....

Notwithstanding all of religion's creedal statements and outward dimensions, worship grounds itself at the perceptual level within the heart and mind, where direct apprehension necessarily reveals patterns of infinite individuation.

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On the contrary, all things come from God: «Tis thou that madest the artificer his body, thou gavest a soul to direct his limbs; thou madest the stuff [materiam] of which he makes anything; thou madest that apprehension whereby he may take his art.»

He can thus appropriate the idealist view that there is no such thing as immediate apprehension or direct knowledge of particulars and define the objective world as a product of our ideal activity.

Bergson uses the term «image» to indicate an immediate, direct «finding» which is more «mental» than raw sensation, but less than an «act» of cognitive apprehension.2 Roughly, «images» are the «raw material» of «intellectual effort.»

Thomas Merton was himself a man who lived on the edge: the edge of great realization and great compassion, the edge of the future that was also the edge of his own growth — a growth directed toward ever - increasing personal and global apprehension of the depths of God.

In the preface of Religion in the Making Whitehead says that his aim is»... to direct attention to the foundation of religion on our apprehension of those permanent elements by reason of which there is a stable order in the world...» (Religion in the Making, Cleveland: Meridian Books, 1960, 8) The point is that religion and God have to do with the «permanent» elements which produce «order» in the world.

Merton was himself a man who lived on the edge: the edge of great realization and great compassion, the edge of the future that was also the edge of his own growth — a growth directed toward ever - increasing personal and global apprehension of the depths of God.

But insofar as there is real discontinuity, insofar as the apprehension of the holy is direct and not mediated by the community, or insofar as the understanding of the human situation is the result of radically independent reflection, we have to do with a prophet, a seer, or a philosopher, rather than with a theologian.

Being the first feature film that Steven S. DeKnight has directed (having only worked on television beforehand), I went in with a little apprehension, to begin with, but his work on television or smaller films may suit him better.

Because communicating via Facebook is less direct, there is less apprehension about being rejected; on Facebook, it may be easier to tactfully let someone know you aren't interested in a romantic relationship without having to come right out and directly reject them.