One of these was A.H. Johnson who was the first to mention the possibility of a «societal view,» and thereby elicited an explicitly negative reaction from Whitehead.8 Others who entertain this view are, mainly, William Christian, Lewis Ford, Marjorie Suchocki, and Jorge Nobo.9 Amongst these, Ford is the only one who links his holding of the «entitative view» to an emphasis on the imprehensibility of God's consequent nature10 (and who later finds this so much of a problem that he starts searching in other directions, though not in that of the «societal view»).11 The other three — Christian, Suchocki, and Nobo —
do see possibilities for a conceptually coherent account of the prehensibility of God.
Elston
does see a possibility for slippage in enforcement.
Do you see any possibility of a similar resurrection at INM, given the changing of the guard, the sale of South African assets, fixing of pension deficit and write down of debts etc.?
I do see the possibility (again, as a non-scientist) of considerably more chaos arising at a regional level, particularly due to possibly chaotic changes in ocean currents.
I think
they do see the possibility to provide new services to the public that today the public can not access.
Not exact matches
Cat hates calling them «inmates» or «prisoners» or «convicts» or any other label that emphasizes the worst things they've
done in their lives and wants them to
see possibility in their futures.
Wired has a good roundup of the
possibilities; some observers fear the company has no intention of reselling e-books, that it merely wants to block others from
doing so, but intellectual property experts
see no evidence of that.
To
do that frequently you need to be able to
see new
possibilities.
Even if your child's school doesn't, urge him or her to
see whether it's a
possibility.
Because it forces you to filter reality through a negative lens so you don't
see any
possibilities, any options for making a change, any light at the end of the tunnel.
What we have really
seen over the past several years, in terms of the appreciation of markets and the decline of interest rates based on what the Fed has been
doing, is a result which has eliminated the
possibility of investors in bonds and stocks to earn an adequate return relative to their expected liabilities.
It isn't always about constraining, but often about expanding
possibilities that we didn't
see before.
I don't
see any company wanting to give CALD much of a premium to its current valuation, but acquisitions are not always rational, so I can't rule out the
possibility.
Although the president
did not offer many details, analysts such as Henkel Garcia
see the
possibility of success as limited.
They've
seen it all happen before: people trying to buy homes with money they don't have, people unable to pay their mortgages, people neglecting to mention their weekly Saturday - night raves that last until 3 a.m. (well, maybe not that last one specifically, but it's not out of the realm of
possibility).
Let's
see...»
Did I exhaust all other
possibilities for my experience?»
You said, «Would it be fair to say that you don't believe that there is any
possibility there is a God, or
do you think it would be possible, but you withhold belief until you
see «evidence»?»
Even if you can't
see it as clearly in scripture as I
do, I hope you can at least be open to the
possibility that people who thought they were saved, may find out on that day that they really weren't because they didn't listen to Jesus» and Paul's warnings.
I think you fail to
see tha tthey
do NOT conclusively state that... they say it MAY be... it is
POSSIBILITY... that doesn't like very sure to me... sorry..
I entertain the
possibility that all will be saved only because I
do not
see how one can come face to face with Divine Love without being overcome by a desire to be embraced by it.
In any case, I tend to agree with him (and apparently Chuck Knight) that this is the most likely explanation, though I don't
see it as being mutually exclusive as his
possibility # 3.
Guess I just didn't rule out enough
possibilities to not
see it coming.
I don't dismiss the
possibility of demons, possession, hunters named Sam and Dean who are too gorgeous and may show up on my doorstep one day carrying salt shotguns and holy water... * ahem * but I digress... I don't dismiss those
possibilities, but I
do see them as infinitely rare to the point of almost improbable.
We didn't create the
possibility; we just
saw it.
But I
do not
see that its
possibility is excluded by basic aspects of his system.
Also, because I don't
see any reasonably demonstrated evidence of such, I find adding the attribute «uncaused», too defining — too limiting of
possibilities.
But you
do not
see nor even consider the
possibility of your error, such is your ignorance and delusion.
I
did see a deep yearning for new
possibilities.
In
doing this, we have also
seen how one of the consequences of authentic preaching is a determination, established in the hearts and minds and wills of those who have assisted at worship, to give themselves more fully to the service of God — as «co-creators», in Whitehead's fine word, with God in the great work of «amorization», establishing in this world (so far as a finite order will permit it) a society marked by caring, justice, responsibility, interest in others, and relief from oppression, devoted to everything positive which promotes the fullest actualization of human
possibility.
One can thus
see how the translators rendered the Latin subjunctive fiat as «let it be
done,» leaving open the
possibility of readers interpreting it as a command, concession, or — what I think is the most compelling, grammatically — a wish construction.
«Don't be scared of what you can not
see, Your only fear is
possibility, Never wonder what the hell went wrong, Your second chance may never come along.
Hume's claim that logical and real
possibility are distinguished only by a habit of the mind (we are not in the habit of
seeing billiard balls vanish when struck by other billiard balls, so we
do not think that is a «real»
possibility) is not universally accepted.
When we
see the way different people in different cultures follow Jesus, it make us more open to the
possibility that we western Christians don't have it all figured out like we think.
Some
see themselves as lost causes — they don't
see the
possibility of forgiveness.
In these, the Holy
See reserved to itself the
possibility of further pronouncements, but in practice they
did not ensue, and probably will never in.
It is also why the Christian initiate must
do his or her part to
see that the
possibilities there offered may through response of the recipient of baptism be brought to fruition.
As Aristotle long ago
saw, nature
does not work in a purely mathematical way, but involves the uncertainties of prime matter, of potentiality and its multiple
possibilities.
The God of the future is not really God of the present; for in the present the man is still conscious of an effort to escape the judgment of God, of a
possibility of justifying himself before God; he
does not
see himself standing in the present before the God who judges.
God's grace is not radically thought, so long as it is conceived as a
possibility in the future instead of being grasped as a reality in the present; for what right would a man have to assert the grace of God, if he
did not
see it revealed as a concrete reality in his own life?
I
do not
see giving in to greed and corruption, or any form of facism (by the RR) as a
possibility, and I
do not
see giving our country away to illegal immigrants as a requirement.
See I heard from someone at the college I'm at that there's this blog somewhere that linked to a website where there was a quote from a forum post where a pilgrim told of meeting monk at a neo-monastery who's been
doing some interesting research into the
possibility of the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy being considered apocalyptic scripture which could mean that the dolphin Dave was on was one of the ones that escaped the earth just before its destruction.
He
does not invite us into communion with himself, nor is there any
possibility of
seeing him as he really is in the Beatific Vision.
Nevertheless, I
did find his essays on Church Music, the Psalms, Petitionary Prayer, Biblical Criticism, and The
Seeing Eye (about the
possibility of aliens on other planets) to be insightful and «classic C. S. Lewis.»
Let's assume for a minute that your argument about the skiers is logical, which it is not, these skiers are not certain they won't fall, they are simply more certain that they can avoid that
possibility better and that when it
does happen they can recover faster — I was amazed at some of the recoveries I
saw in the games.
Thus, as I
see it, the options which remain are in fact two: either an existentialist approach or a «process thought» approach, since the «secular» theology in itself
does nothing more than deny a particular kind of metaphysic and leaves us open to the
possibility of interpreting the secular world, and everything else in human experience, in some appropriate manner.
The story, you
see, just doesn't work with him going off script, so believers reject the
possibility altogether.
However, doesn't the argument that» our perceptions will always be limited by our own limited brains» simply speak to the fact that we have imaginations large enough to
see the
possibility that so much more exists outside even our natural perception?
I can't prove that there is no tooth fairy, but I don't believe in one because I've never
seen one, nor have I
seen any credible evidence that might lead me to believe there's even a
possibility that one could exist.
She actually considers the
possibility of giving birth to a fourth child, but her husband
sees the needs of the family more objectively, reminding her that he doesn't want another child and has his high blood pressure and high cholesterol «to deal with.»
Nevertheless, from the facing of the fourfold source of human suffering, I
do come to a reassuring conclusion: on the basis of no - God I can
see no possible explanation of the problem of good, but on the basis of faith in God I can
see the wide - open
possibility of Mind and Purpose here and of an ultimate outcome which will vindicate the Creator.