Sentences with phrase «factuality of»

If you grant that my statement was in fact factual (I am not interested in discussing the putative factuality of the statement), what kind of recourse do I have against these people if their actions have negative consequences?

Seen whole, «Jeff Wall» gradually downgrades this distinction, encouraging us to wonder whether we undervalue the factuality of a contrived photograph and dream too much on what we take for the veracity of documentary.

With constant visits to New York however, a Jasper John's exhibition changed his mind as he was impressed by the factuality of the work and the geometric patterns of the rings and stripes that formed the images.

Among the many advantages of Whitehead's solution to the problem of evil is his recommendation that the factuality of real evil be included in the assemblage of data which form the basis of philosophical investigation (MT 70f, 109f).

For in spite of this factuality of the cross, it would none the less be a purely mythological kerygma — i.e. a kerygma speaking of a selfhood which never existed — if the «cross» were looked upon only as a physical, biological occurrence, as accidental or involuntary, i.e. as completely distinct from his existential selfhood.

The lower point of the vertical line stands for God in his consequent aspect as the recipient of all that has occurred in the order of creation, hence as concrete and everlasting in that the factuality of the occasions in the process have entered into and helped to mould the divine experience in its capacity for infinite adjustment and relationship.

Insofar as faith in its Christian expression moves through the factuality of estrangement and death, it can never accept a mere negation of the profane.

cit., pp. 103, 105, 53 f.) God's demand that Israel become «a holy people» means the spontaneous and ever - renewed act whereby the people dedicate themselves to YHVH with their corporeal national existence, their legal forms and institutions, their internal and external relationships, the whole factuality of worldly life.

Atheist's seem to find comfort in the logic and factuality of science and I used to believe that as well.

Not exact matches

«he had to accept the truth of her accusation» synonyms: veracity, truthfulness, verity, sincerity, candor, honesty; More accuracy, correctness, validity, factuality, authenticity «he doubted the truth of her statement» antonyms: dishonesty, falseness • that which is true or in accordance with fact or reality.

As the full meaning of this sacrifice or self - negation dawns in consciousness, the factuality and historicity of Jesus» particular «self - existence» is negated as that existence now becomes universal self - consciousness: «The death of the mediator is death not merely of his natural aspect, of his particular self - existence: what dies is not merely the outer casement, which, being stripped of essential being, is eo ipso dead, but also the abstraction of the divine Being.»

In the modern period with its emphasis on factuality, critical thinking is deeply corrosive of religion in general, Christianity and the Bible in particular.

He may also have thought that Whitehead's theism belonged with theism in general as a fallacious attempt to humanize the universe; for Santayana, though he saw theistic religion as possessing a type of poetic or symbolic truth, was, at the level of blunt factuality, an atheist.)

One of our important duties, as I see it, is to be much clearer and much louder in our insistence that the Genesis story is myth and that no conclusions are to be drawn from it that presuppose its historical factuality.

Anthropologist Clifford Geertz termed religion a construction that «clothes» its symbols with «such an aura of factuality that they seem realistic.»

The alleged «silence» about the virgin birth from other New Testament authors can not be used as an argument against it since its factuality would have been revealed by Mary only after the resurrection and it did not constitute the centre of the Easter message; Redford even finds hints thatother New Testament authors framed their affirmations to allow for the virgin birth.

Moreover, a third approach is possible, namely, one which employs what we may call a «strictly metaphysical» analysis concerning neither the matters of fact at issue in appeals to experience, nor the hypothetical necessity at issue in the correlational form of presuppositional analysis, but rather the strict necessity that pertains to the character of factuality as such.

The ideology calls for a movement to win the world and all is subservient to that ideology no matter how much it flies in the face of reality — of factuality.

The problem is that the language of «historical factuality» is not theory - neutral and does not deserve to be absolutized.

He noted in particular that the question of historical factuality is raised very forcefully in the stories of the crucifixion and resurrection.

Yet The Nation still felt constrained to use quotation marks in alluding to black «crime» and the «deterioration» of the black family, as if these were phenomena of dubious factuality.

«If I am asked to use the language of factuality, then I would say, yes, m those terms, I have to speak of an empty tomb.

As for the postliberal claim to eschew the experiential subjectivism of liberal theology, Henry charged that in elevating narrative over factuality, narrative theology becomes unable to distinguish truth from error or fact from fiction.

Does this mean that Frei - style narrative theology simply waves off the question of historical factuality?

In addition, as a result of this stubborn factuality, when these objective - case actualities are included in our actual world, it is we who must adjust and not those past actual entities.

It is this stubborn factuality that makes it possible for these past entities to be included in the future actual entities and, thereby, for these past actual entities to function as efficient causes of certain aspects of those future actual entities.

Value is not, so to say, naked or unclothed — for all value requires factuality for its existence, just as all factuality is possessed of value.

The fact that this date is the result of the synthesis of all of Scripture causes May 21st, 2011 to take on very sobering factuality.

Historic knowledge can be affected by the vicissitudes of historical factuality.

You can question some of its factuality and long for a little more weight, but the intentions and execution are most admirable.

I've always thought of Peter Doig as something of a guilty pleasure, even though the 49 - year - old painter's mixture of figuration and abstraction, reverie and factuality, has won him a renown since his 1994 New York debut as a freshly - minted Turner Prize nominee.

«There are some wonderful dialogues happening between works,» May says, «such as the relationship between factuality and truthfulness in storytelling, the representation of the figure in painting, systematic oppression, and creative approaches to conversations about feminism.»

Maintain a sensible attitude: «alternative facts» should not subvert the notions of factuality, evidence, and objectivity.