Sentences with phrase «distinguished as phenomena»

Kant introduced a sharp dichotomy between appearance and reality, which he distinguished as phenomena and noumena.

Not exact matches

For this reason we probably ought to distinguish between anti-Semitism and anti-Jewish thought — the former being that modern phenomenon all democratic persons are eager to combat; the latter the expressions of hostility or dislike found in earlier periods as a result of the specific religious and historical role the Jews and their antagonists have played.

Those familiar with Hartshorne may immediately notice that Brightman's distinction between the given and The Given precisely parallels Hartshorne's distinction between relative and absolute — and the whole host of phenomena which may be distinguished as either externally or internally related to one another.39 In Hartshorne's language, The Given is only externally related to the given, while the given is internally related to The Given.

Here we raise the question of the precise relationship of evangelicalism and fundamentalism as historical phenomena, I do not mean here to give any credence to what I predict will be the common evangelical response to Barr — that he fails to distinguish appropriately a modern enlightened evangelicalism from a more benighted fundamentalism.

The Christian educator as a church «professional» who is distinguished from an ordained pastor is a fairly recent phenomenon.

At the heart of the problem of consciousness, in other words, is the problem of qualia: to show how «brain processes, which are publicly observable, objective phenomena, could cause anything as peculiar as inner qualitative states of awareness or sentience, states which are in some sense «private» to the possessor of the state (MC 60).6 Searle thus prompts an even more basic question: whether it is possible to distinguish clearly and distinctly between private and public aspects of perception.

Inasmuch, however, as, within the unity of a more general consciousness or phenomenon of consciousness, there still maybe a multiplicity distinguished, the continuity of a more general consciousness does not exclude the discontinuity of particular phenomena.

European culture was long distinguished by the thoroughness with which it coerced labor out of its population — slavery and industrialization, phenomena equally indifferent to such inconveniences as considerations of family, were natural extensions of feudalism, only more ambitious and ingenious in their exactions.

First, it distinguishes theology from the attempt to study religion objectively — from the point of view of some philosophy, some branch of science such as psychology or sociology, or simply as a historical phenomenon.

Colic is a transient condition that ends around the third to fourth month of an infant's life and appears to have few consequences for the child; (c) Crying and / or frequent fussing is a characteristic of negatively reactive temperament but can be distinguished from colic in several ways; colic is not a stable phenomenon and it manifests itself as intense crying bouts of long duration, whereas negative reactivity is stable and characterized by frequent bouts of fussiness.

Economists distinguish a number of types of unemployment, however: cyclical unemployment is brought about by the vagaries of the business cycle; structural unemployment is brought about by changes in the economy or the labour market, when the jobs available do not fit the workforce's skills; frictional unemployment is the phenomenon of people being «between jobs»; and seasonal unemployment is linked to certain types of seasonal jobs, such as farm work and construction.

A second reason was his concern with incorporating gravity, making use of what he called the equivalence principle, which postulates that observers can never distinguish the effects of gravity from those of acceleration as long as they observe phenomena only in their neighborhood.

By some fortuitous coincidence just a few steps separate «Joan Mitchell: The Last Paintings» at Cheim & Read from «Matta: A Centennial Celebration» at Pace Gallery and each show explosively refutes any notion of youthfulness being the province of the young while giving new life to the phenomenon known as «old age style» — used to distinguish formal characteristic of late works by Titian, Rembrandt, or Cézanne, where the artist just wants to get to the heart of the matter and sloughs off all the fine finish he had needed to impress his audience in earlier years.

We argue that two main types should be distinguished: epistemic scepticism, relating to doubts about the status of climate change as a scientific and physical phenomenon; and response scepticism, relating to doubts about the efficacy of action taken to address climate change.