Sentences with phrase «far as an explanation»

Whitehead concludes: «For this reason, it would be better — so far as explanation is concerned — to abandon the term «distance» for this integral, and to call it by some such name as «impetus» suggestive of its physical import» (PR 507).

I'm sorry that won't offer much as far as explanation for you, Annette, but it's nice to know that I'm not the only one who continues to have problems with O'Brien's.

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The day after the Company filed its proxy statement, Chairman D. Boone Wayson, a childhood friend and former business partner of Mr. Wynn, communicated the board's outright rejection of my request to reopen the nomination window as neither «appropriate [n] or justified,» without any further explanation.

However, this year, there has so far been no explanation as to who can order a Pumpkin Spice Latte on Friday and who can not.

In other news, Canada Border Services Agency has still so far failed to offer an explanation as to how imported iPods might be exempt from tariffs.

Ecosystem goods and services have most recently been defined as «the direct and indirect contributions of ecosystems to human well - being,» which can further be divided into one of four broad categories: regulating services (e.g. flood mitigation, water purification), provisioning services (e.g. food), habitat or supporting services (e.g. spawning grounds) and cultural services (e.g. recreational opportunities)(see here for an excellent explanation of these categories).

As the second richest man in the world, his investing prowess needs no further explanation.

As further explanation, user information is any data that documents a user's characteristics and / or activities.

A (far too simple) explanation for this goes like: prices drop, investors get uneasy, they buy options as insurance, thereby driving up their prices and increasing the VIX.

His further explanation of this cryptic principle would alienate many who couldn't grasp what they saw as madness: a man calling upon them to eat his flesh and drink his blood.

«Naturally, some in the church will try to polarize or interpret this, but as the rest of us aren't pope, we still have to get further explanation,» Palmo added.

3Pethaps some further explanation is needed of the manner in which a society as a unified field of activity serves as the medium for the transmission of physical feelings and conceptual patterns from one generation of occasions to another.

In any case, in the following paragraphs I will first analyze Whitehead's remarks in Process and Reality on societies as the necessary environment for the ongoing emergence of actual occasions and then show how this analysis throws unexpected light on Whitehead's further explanation of the hierarchy of societies within the current world order, in particular, the difference between inorganic and organic societies, and, among organic societies, those with a «soul» or «living person» and those without such a central organ of control.

As you don't understand from the explanation I have given then me explaining further is probably not going to result in it being achieved.

No, a far, far more reasonable explanation is that it is all baloney and that the accounts were interpreted and altered with the intent to show them as evidence for the resurrection.

So far as I'm concerned, gods are an explanation for the reason behind the Universe's existence, something which is unknowable and has no relation to what happens in the Universe.

But the real explanation of our ineffectual preaching lies much deeper: far too many of us, far too much of the time, do not recognize the terrible truth that as preachers we are engaged in nothing other than the task of confronting our listeners with the very Word of God.

If then such a zealous learner, though not carrying things so far as to become a disciple, were to discourse loudly and volubly of how much he owed the Teacher, so that his eulogy was almost endless and its gilding priceless; if he were to resent our explanation that the Teacher had been merely an occasion, neither his eulogy nor his resentment could further our inquiry, since both had the same ground, namely, that though lacking in the courage to understand he had nevertheless not lacked the audacity to go beyond.

As far as the empty tomb goes, if it actually happened, it could have several explanations other than an improbable magical resurrectioAs far as the empty tomb goes, if it actually happened, it could have several explanations other than an improbable magical resurrectioas the empty tomb goes, if it actually happened, it could have several explanations other than an improbable magical resurrection.

Both of them require exploration and explanation, so far as we are able to give this.

I shall do this under a few headings but very briefly — for further explanation the reader may wish to consult such books as my own Lure of Divine Love (Pilgrim Press and T. and T. Clark, 1981) or Peter N. Hamilton's The Living God and the Modern World (Hodder and Stoughton, 1968).

When they were in doubt about a Quranic verse dealing with God or any of His attributes they were told to accept it as it was stated in the Qur» an with no further explanation or interpretation.

As a further line of explanation the mandates are «conjoined» with one another.

Accordingly, «effective historical consciousness» becomes indispensable in summoning explanation as primordial understanding extends itself into interpretation and by the fusion of horizons attempts to render near what is far.

As you know, the sphere of things that can't be critiqued (dogma) are pretty small — and even then you could critique the dogma by saying it needs further explanation.

Do you ever think it would be better as far as determining the truth if you were willing to consider that there might be other explanations for things?

The Christian doctrine of the triunitarian nature of God, to which we shall come in the latter part of this chapter, is a symbolic account that gives a better ultimate explanation of what the whole story is about than does some account true (so far as it goes) which is given in scientific (or similar) terms alone.

As far as I can tell, the only real explanation is «We have the mind of Christ.&raquAs far as I can tell, the only real explanation is «We have the mind of Christ.&raquas I can tell, the only real explanation is «We have the mind of Christ.»

In short, the Nature we know from modern science embodies and reflects immaterial properties and a depth of intelligibility... To view all these extremely complex, elegant and intelligible laws, entities, properties and relations in the evolution of the universe as «brute facts» in need of no further explanation is, in the words of the great John Paul II, an «abdication of human intelligence».»

Thus, he could use it as an example of pagan depravity (Romans 1:26 - 27) or list it as one among many different sins (1 Corinthians 6:9 - 10 and 1 Timothy 1:10), without needing to give any further explanation.

My point is that in order for it to be accepted as proof by those who prefer the far - fetched explanations, you'd have to point out the fallacies in those explanations, one by one.

However, if you're really determined, you can always think of yet another far - fetched factor or explanation, such as matter that comes into existence all by itself, an infinite number of universes in which every possibility has happened or will happen in its own universe, life and consciousness spontaneously arising out of inert matter, etc..

Further explanation of Hegel's attractiveness to the theologian can be found in the high estimation he has of the role of (Christian) religion,» the way in which his philosophy of history can be read as a speculative transformation of salvation history, 12 and his «high» anthropology in which human beings are moments in the self - knowing of God.»

The naturalism of Piaget is, according to his own explanation, just as far removed from positivism as from an excessive reductionism (EG 10, 121f.).

Thus we have two forms of inquiry, the one restricting itself to the study of behavior, the description of behavior being austerely limited to geometrical and arithmetical properties, and the other also studying behavior, but interpreting it as far more than merely that, and as having its meaning, and perhaps also in part its causal explanation, in terms of a large class of concepts excluded from the physicists» explanations.

But I shall keep myself as far as possible at present to the more «scientific» view; and only as the plot thickens in subsequent lectures shall I consider the question of its absolute sufficiency as an explanation of all the facts.

(The reader will here please notice that in my exclusive reliance in the last lecture on the subconscious «incubation» of motives deposited by a growing experience, I followed the method of employing accepted principles of explanation as far as one can.

Asked for a letter of explanation, Cairns himself went so far as to write, «I have come to see the poem as a mistake,» adding that it was intended for a secular audience and that he had underestimated its effect on conservative Christians.

Any being capable of designing something as complex as a sensory organ like an eye is surely even more complex itself; does this not require further explanation?

The suggestion that the entities in nature are to be thought of as belonging to the same category of existence as human experience would have little value if it did not lead to further explanation.

The problem that calls for explanation is the qualitative so far as it is evident in the whole gamut of evolutionary history.

It is clear that the process philosophy of science as developed thus far can not accept the deductive model of explanation.

But this explanation of the black religious crisis, while excellent so far as it goes, ignores several difficulties:

As far as human beings are concerned, evolution does not have to be the only logical explanation as it should not be beyond the capacity of God to design and create them without evolutioAs far as human beings are concerned, evolution does not have to be the only logical explanation as it should not be beyond the capacity of God to design and create them without evolutioas human beings are concerned, evolution does not have to be the only logical explanation as it should not be beyond the capacity of God to design and create them without evolutioas it should not be beyond the capacity of God to design and create them without evolution.

It falls foul of the same weaknesses: as scientific explanation of these gaps gradually becomes easier, (being done by the same methodology as the former set of «easier» material explanations) we have no further need of metaphysics or of God.

So yeah... I fell like this granola requires no further explanation — here is the recipe, but please use it wisely because if you make too much you may find yourself in a similar situation as I, where I consumed a little to much of it for my own good.....

A great explanation of ethical veganism comes from the International Vegetarian Union, «Veganism may be defined as a way of living that seeks to exclude, as far as possible and practical, all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing, or any other purpose.

Our BFG has played a lot more minutes on the pitch this season and he tried to find an explanation as to why Arsenal have struggled with performances and results so far, as revealed in a Daily Star report.

The coach was not satisfied with the explanation that moving lips were interpreted as taunting words, but stated that he would leave further clarification and justification of the ejection to the section and administrators.

The SEC conference already notified all its coaches that they aren't allowed to attend the June event in Michigan, but now Georgia's head ball coach is giving further explanation as to why some won't be attending this summer.