Sentences with phrase «for generality»

Do the available official statistics allow us to compare the conviction / acquittal rate between rape trials and trials for the generality of offences where juries have actually deliberated and given verdicts of their own, that is excluding directed acquittals after the judge has made a decision to stop the case?

Though this kind of story is easy to criticize for its generality, I think Butler has put her finger squarely on the pulse.

The author aimed for generality in investing when he wrote this.

There is a need for us to have a police that will work for the generality of Nigerians.»

He however stated that the APC would give the PDP flag bearer a good fight for the Oke Ayoba Government House come July 14, asserting that the APC is still the preferred choice for the generality of Ekiti people.

The group urged «Nigerians to disregard the utterances of such individuals as the President is focused on working for the generality of Nigerians.»

But that is an idea that, so far as I can see, is impossible to realize today, an idea too high for the generality of the faithful.

Particularity is the basis for generality, just as individual moments of experience are the basis for man, and man is the basis for a civilized epoch.

Nevertheless the fact remains that this conception of despotic force is for him, as for the generality of mankind, the only conception of Divine Power.

For the generality of men the world of the outer experience is the real world.

Where Mathews thought that Universal Algebra would be an important book for the generality of its formalism.

This new terminology, he thought, could achieve through the definitions he stipulated for it a generality impossible for the terminology inherited from the philosophic tradition.

Philosophical discernment, which «involves a keen logical and conceptual discrimination,... fight [s] the «craving for generality» (73 - 74).

GCRs are modulated by both solar magnetic field, which is largely unpredictable in strength except for generalities associated with 11 - year sunspot cycle and is also modulated by unpredictable events like nearby supernovas, and by more predictable very very long slow changes in intensity due to the solar system traversing spiral arms of our galaxy and wandering above and below the galactic plane in cycles lasting tens and hundreds of millions of years.

Natural disasters can cause severe damage in a matter of seconds and while it is good to be covered for the generalities, extra protection can pay off in your favor.

The program is designed to watch for those generalities.

Not exact matches

Everybody likes glittering generalities, but most owners lack the patience for fine detail.

«What matters for research isn't your score,» AI writes in a blog post, «but instead the generality of your technique.»

My understanding is that as a * very * broad generality, in most metros the average commute time for those using transit is longer than those traveling by private car.

you will need to provide more information for it to be at least one that others can draw some sort of logical conclusion from, either through specifics or some sort of generality which would account for the missing information in your thought experiment.

With this general understanding of God's participation in becoming, it should be possible to make some statements of less than metaphysical generality which have to do with God's aims for particular sorts of occasions.

There's bound to be some sloppy theology or straw men or generalities in there, and I don't want to stifle conversation by claiming that God is somehow responsible for the content.

This formula satisfies the criterion set out by the late Paul Ramsey for the churches» social teaching: it steers between the extremes of irrelevant generalities and relevant particularities that are beyond the churches» competence.

And rigorous realism requires going far beyond the usual generalities; for the natural man fools himself about fact, can not bear to look at a situation as it is, invents stories to cover up reality.

Noll explains that abolitionists had a far more challenging task, for they had to appeal instead to the «broad sweep of Scripture» and to generalities regarding justice, love, and common humanity.

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.

In a manner analogous to Aristotle's grounding of induction in «experience,» Whitehead is quite emphatic in stating that direct observation is incapable of serving as the springboard for arriving at the larger generalities.

They do not stand on their own but root in processual generality Were it not for generic processes that reach across the limits of space and time, those nominalistic commonalties would not, could not be there.

Mays raises an interesting hermeneutical issue when he admits that his interpretation of Whitehead's metaphysics as a search for a logical structure of utmost generality may be said to be «largely circumstantial, based upon attempts to set up correspondences between different parts of his writings» (PW 94/98).

But this is just where Mays's analogy becomes untenable, for if the complex scheme of generalities were found to conflict with present experience, the scheme as a whole would be rejected as false.

It is the generality of both the physical and the conceptual feelings involved in religious experience which establishes the common basis for the kind of integration in which emotional experience illustrates a conceptual justification, and conceptual experience finds an emotional justification.

provided that physical science maintains its denial of «action at a distance,» the safer guess is that direct objectification is practically negligible except for contiguous occasions; but that this practical negligibility is a characteristic of the present cosmic epoch, without any metaphysical generality.

One could similarly relax the axioms for a topological space to achieve more generality at the expense of losing the key features of spatiality.

Provided that physical science maintains its denial of «action at a distance,» the safer guess is that direct objectification is practically negligible except for contiguous occasions; but that this practical negligibility is a characteristic of the present cosmic epoch, without any metaphysical generality (Process and Reality, An Essay in Cosmology 468 - 469).

If modern liberal education is to provide for the nurture of free men, it must regain the ideal of generality which characterized the traditional liberal arts, but it must do so without sacrificing the variety and scope made possible by modern advances in knowledge.

There are many possible structures for both G and H, but no matter, we can in full generality assert that H is not embeddable in 0 (to rephrase, H can not be structurally a part of G) because of the functorial relationship with integer arithmetic: 120 does not divide 128.

With regard to a poet people speak of his having a call; but as for becoming a priest, it seems enough to the generality of men (and that means of Christians) that one has taken an examination.

(3) There are no criteria for choice between rival theories of great generality, for the criteria are themselves theory - dependent.

Stressing the endeavor for social justice as a complement to the task of evangelism, recognizing the inadequacy of benevolences to meet the challenge, and therefore seeking concrete, structural, political involvement based on a Biblically informed concept of «social justice,» editor Smedes argues that the church's action will «find its way on the ridge between harmless generalities and divisive particularities.

Our rampant desire to reduce knotty particularities to spongy generalities has led a cynical friend to confess that he grabs first for his wife and then for his wallet when he hears this gnostic word «spirituality.»

This declaration limits itself, as given its assumptions and method of proceeding it was inevitable that it should, to claims of such vagueness and generality that it would be hard for anyone to disagree about them, but equally hard for anyone to get excited about them — much less to structure his life around them or be prepared to die for them.

Generality and the recognition of different objects presuppose this form of memory, for both are initially based on an awareness of the likeness of bodily attitude or of a similarity of reactions in diverse situations.

In this process, hermeneutics, which initially pays attention to the provincially specific and the concrete, lastly feeds its craving for philosophical generality which is uniquely its own.

To say that there is spontaneity in the world, then, is to say that ordered generality, or what for Peirce is intelligibility, is founded on the unique, or what resists intelligibility.

The claims for poetry that emerge at the end of this passage are not only bold, they are very general; their boldness and their generality are alike problematic.

But unlike them all, process historical thinkers turn to particular situations primarily to examine them for their particularity, not to open them up to generalities beyond their particularity.7 So, although the process historical thinkers are empiricists.

For in the very generality that determines executive office there is a power that disengages from the common table of parish existence, from the direct and pathetic book of the common life, and from the moments of sudden truth that stun and depress and exalt the minister on his ordinary round.

The most that follows is the need for the philosopher or natural theologian to remember with Whitehead that «the accurate expression of the final generalities is the goal of discussion and not its origin.»

I do prescribe to the generalities of religion in that I believe in precepts of doing good for its own sake.

That is, nothing is experienced in its generality (as it is for all), but only in its singularity (as it is experienced by this person at this moment).