Sentences with phrase «existence of a certain kind»

Holmes is positing the existence of a certain kind of person to explain observed phenomena (not, as he habitually says, making deductions), but we would not normally call his conclusions science, even when true and convincing.

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Evolution, as Darwin and Wallace originally conceived it, accounts for the emergence of certain kinds of order within the universe, whose existence and order are presupposed.

Because he had left himself no room for any kind of language of analogy, which might have allowed him to say how transcendent being shows itself in immanent existence while still preserving its transcendence, and because, moreover, he had decided in advance that one can not speak of being in other than temporal terms, he really could not escape lapsing into a certain fatalism regarding the history he described.

It may be that in the absence of a program to cover certain kinds of losses, such losses would be unlikely to occur at all, and few people would suffer from them, but the existence of such programs can change both those facts.

A certain kind of exploding star, called a supernova, turned out to be fainter than expected in the distant past, indicating that the universe is ballooning at an ever - faster rate, and has been for nearly half of its 13.8 billion - year existence.

By analyzing how strongly you feel about certain aspects of life, we can discover where your priorities lie and what kind of existence you lead.

«There's an ethnographic appearance to certain kinds of marks, certain kinds of materials, things that are in common or common in these different places in the world, that carry cultural, religious, political implications... they carry the very loaded resonance of this simultaneity of time that informs our understanding of our own existence,» Schnabel commented in a 1989 interview about the effect travel has had on his work.

[I] t became axiomatic for Descartes... that there existed «a fundamental accord between the laws of nature [which are concealed by appearances and deceptive sense perceptions] and the laws of mathematics»... And he actually believed that with this kind of thinking, with what Hobbes called «reckoning with consequences,» he could deliver certain knowledge about the existence of God, the nature of the soul, and similar matters.

Whatever their name and reputation, these policies are a kind of very existence insurance which can be designed to pay money for certain expenses related to death, including a funeral, cremation and burial.