Sentences with phrase «facts of experience»

Just listing your career history and expecting to ride on the bald facts of your experience isn't enough.

And it is conscious: that is, it does not stay below the threshold of consciousness and work there unknown to the soul (as, for instance, infant baptism is thought by some to do), but comes within the field of awareness where the man can «know» it as he knows any other fact of experience.

It is for this reason that Whitehead is careful to insist on the tentative nature of the ultimate generalities, which are always susceptible of reinterpretation in the light of the evolving facts of experience.

That supernatural order of life which the apocalyptists had predicted in terms of pure fantasy is now described as an actual fact of experience.

On the one hand, he recognized as prime facts of his experience the division between the «I» and the world and the duality within man.

The inevitability of man's choice of evil and his responsibility for having done so, logically irreconcilable facts of experience, formed for Niebuhr the problem of original sin.

But the way in which he has been described has come in the main from the observable facts of experience and from our observation of how things go in the world.

But it seems to me that all of these are of slight importance in comparison with a simple fact of experience: the observable truth is that men and women who have really let themselves go — committed themselves, turned from self - centeredness outwards, looked to, and centered life in, Christ — have, in fact, become different from the run - of - the - mill type of men and women.

There need be no conflict between these two positions, however, if there is some original awareness, however faint, of «the basic facts of experience» from what later turns out to be the inverted perspective of consciousness.

In such passages from Jeremiah and Habakkuk we face the perennial glory of the true prophets — their courage in acknowledging facts of experience that contradict accepted theories.

But if the subjectivist principle is consistently followed, it leads to the strange phenomenon of «empiricists» explaining away the obvious facts of experience in obedience to an a priori doctrine (PR 220, 221).

First, ours is a world which is «in process»; it is marked by change, «becoming», development — not necessarily for the better, but certainly as a given fact of experience.

If so, it remains to be seen which of these similar visions of panentheism is most adequate to the facts of experience and coherent in terms of total system.

Becoming explicit is becoming a fact of experience, even if what is explicit is a mental fact, e.g., an image, an idea however fuzzy, a proposition, etc..

We have learned from the prophets how the Word of God makes history when it comes to a man as the meaning of the facts of his experience, and through his response gives a new direction to events.

Whether or not one uses the term «original sin» — and its usefulness has certainly been limited by the manner in which it has been employed by the literalists — the facts of experience which men were trying to verbalize when they coined the term must be taken into account in understanding the alcoholic and his situation.

It is a fact of experience that, as someone has said, «Every man is born with a pack on his back.»

Whitehead tentatively asserts generalizations whose deductive implications are then tested against the facts of experience.

But neither is it empirically testable, for no facts of experience seem to bear on its truth or falsity.

Christian theology must make its case, I have argued, by presenting a worldview that is intrinsically convincing to people because of its rational coherence and its adequacy to the facts of experience.

However, even if one admits on the basis of experience alone that one feels individuals, and that by this very fact one is inclined to the view that somehow individuals are immanent, the question still remains: Does Whitehead's metaphysics provide an adequate philosophical account of this fact of experience?

Surely this fact of experience was the given requiring explanation, rather than the other way around.

Wisdom's doctrine of retribution is naïve — it does not match the facts of experience.

Yet, it fits the facts of experience as expressed in much Christian literature and can be confirmed by many in their own self - understanding.

Introduction Charles Hartshorne rests the case for his philosophy on its coherence and its adequacy to the facts of experience, including the well - established teachings of the physical sciences.

This view is contrary to all the facts of experience, their own existence included.»

This provides the matrix, as a body of first principles, judged as coherent and logical depending on the manner in which each proposition requires the others in systematic interconnection.2 However, as a whole, the theses of the system must be confronted with the facts of experience.

One must make a choice as to which of the approaches most nearly conforms to the facts of experience as he can best see them.

Niebuhr's conclusion was that the facts of experience indicate that grace as justification (forgiveness) and grace as sanctification (enduement with power) are both true.

While the demand for justice is one which we all feel, the fact of our experience is that justice does not prevail.

What religion reports, you must remember, always purports to be a fact of experience: the divine is actually present, religion says, and between it and ourselves relations of give and take are actual.