Sentences with phrase «example by analogy»

Not exact matches

Since you already used a restaurant example, let me continue with the analogy: we're serving tasty food to an ever increasing number of satisfied, loyal customers and making enough money on every meal served to pay back original investment in fixed overhead by next year (those faux - egyptian obelisks didn't come cheap).

For example, Bernard of Clairvaux takes a line by the woman to her lover, «O that he would kiss me with the kisses of his mouth» (1:2) as an analogy for the incarnation: Jesus is God's «kiss»!

The pattern is clear in the Epistles to the Romans, Galatians, Colossians, and Ephesians, and when it has been recognized in these clear examples, it can be traced by analogy in other epistles, where it is not so obvious at first sight; not only in epistles written by Paul but in those written by other authors as well.

In other pathological cases, insane delusions, for example, or psychopathic obsessions, the source is yet to seek, but by analogy it also should be in subliminal regions which improvements in our methods may yet conceivably put on tap.

For example, consider this analogy: a master chess player may not be able to predict or coerce the moves of an erratic, unskilled opponent and yet by greater insight and knowledge be able to guarantee victory in the long run.

They are products of early Christian preaching and do not contain the necessary material; for example, they have no account of Jesus» personal development, and attempts to supply this material by analogy from other historical figures are inappropriate to the subject.

Probability This article will briefly compare three different design arguments for the existence of God, or an intelligent creator; the probability argument, Paley's argument by analogy and Richard Taylor's argument by example.

An example of just how quickly earlier pieties can crumble is offered by John Naughton who discusses our predicament by analogy with a Supreme Court ruling in the US in the 1940 «s that ushered in the era of mass aviation.

The analogy to the climate change legislation could be to make a statutory commitment to reduce child poverty (for example, to reach by 2020 a level of child poverty at least 90 % below the 1999 when the commitment to reduce and end child poverty was made) and then to set up an equivalent group to the Low Pay Commission or Monetary Policy Committee to report before each pre-budget report and budget as to progress towards this, and to assess and advise on the range of policy options necessary to get on track.

That work, Artefacts (2011), will be joined by other pieces, among them selections from an ongoing photographic series (left) called «Geographical Analogies (2006 --- present)» in which the artist juxtaposes historically and geographically disparate locations (for example, New Jersey's Passaic and Cambodia's Angkor) that have become emblems of deterioration.

I know it is a lame example — but the analogies are lame by definition... Still it may point to a real phenomenon: every simplification of data that loses the information content may lead us astray.)

And yes by analogy we can't say a specific weather event is caused by climate change (although I think this is changing, and one or two have been for example flooding in the UK recently I think)

In post # 44 at http://www.kendallharmon.net/t19/index.php/t19/article/4811/ I give an concrete example of this principle insofar as it pertains to temperature measurements by making an analogy with special relativity.

Externalities may be addressed by either a tax / credit or some other public policy, public ownership and management of the commons, or privatization of the commons, or through court actions — each option may have it's own costs — for example, the large - scale privatization of the climate system may be impractical with given technology (analogy with toll roads), and even without that, it has at least an aesthetic cost (nature is supposed to be nature; and psychologically, humans may benifit from some amount of public space) and perhaps scientific (ie nature — in this context, nature as it is with relatively small impacts of humankind — is not nature if it is not being itself) costs; there may be inefficiencies in the court system that could be bypassed for issues that are easily addressed with legislation (unless we had a class - action lawsuit on behalf of all people now until the year).

for example — there are still lots and lots of smokers out there and not all of them are complete idiots, maybe W was right when he called oil an «addiction» in more ways than by simple analogy

There are are risks to the integrity of the process where, for example, the governing decision is a Supreme Court of Canada decision which purports to apply to the common law of all of the provinces — maybe even the civil law by analogy — where the decision has been considered by the appellate courts (and the trial courts) of other provinces, and one would never now that from a particular provinces's jurisprudence.

Case summaries give you an edge not only as a way to illustrate the examples for reasoning by analogy, but also to provide a quick overview of a case - by - case organization of the legal principle.

Using our marble analogy, in this most basic of examples, each marble is shrunk down by approximately 47 %.