Sentences with phrase «for irreducible»

He imagined that by inventing an alphabet of human thought — a system of characters for irreducible concepts — and then combining these in a calculus of reasoning, mathematicians would be able to solve all scientific and moral matters.

Far from naming the essence that makes theological schools basically all the same thing despite apparent differences, «theology» indicates one range of factors that accounts for the irreducible differences among theological schools.

As for irreducible complexity, give me one example (any example) and I will gladly show evidence that it is not irreducibly complex.

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First, Grisez - Finnis describe some basic human goods, the irreducible categories of things for which it is rational to strive.

The objective search was for brahman, the final irreducible unity behind nature and the cosmos.

That calls for a vaginal theology and a phallic theology, at the very least, which will regard as significant, central and irreducible data for theological reflection the experience of being female or male, including but not confined to genital sexuality.

The individual and the community are both essential components of an irreducible dialectic, and maintaining the integrity of such dialectics, as Ziegler so faithfully communicates, is for Soloveitchik a fundamental necessity for genuine religious experience.

Discussing at length three biological structures that ID supporters cite as evidence of «irreducible complexity» (and therefore the need, they say, for divine intervention), Collins shows how ID remains no more than a modern version of a «god of the gaps» hypothesis, which posits a «clumsy Creator, having to intervene at regular intervals to fix the inadequacies of His own initial plan for generating the complexity of life» and therefore completely unsatisfactory.

George Orwell, in his famous essay on Dickens, saw in this philosophical and moral muddle not a weakness but a strength, a generosity of spirit, an openness to the irreducible complexity of mankind's moral situation, an immunity to what he called «the smelly little orthodoxies that are now contending for our souls.»

To be sure, classical realism is lost to us, a development due in part to increased awareness of the extent to which the human mind and cultural forms are the irreducible prisms for any apprehension of reality.

, the irreducible complexity problem explained so clearly by md2205 (research the parts of the flagellum bacterium — amazing), probability of something happening — for the many years evolution has been studied and not a single example of a transitional fossil (please research before replying — there have been MANY confirmed fakes) or an evolutionary event in progress.

Seriousness of purpose; the need for measure, endurance, foresight, and self - control; life's irreducible complexity and the hard choices that entails are all things our universities, and those within them who call themselves humanists, should be trying to convey.

The unique aspect of experience is a measure of the concreteness of God for us, and is «irreducible, incomparable, incommensurable to any parameter of understanding»; it is, as Eastern and Western faith traditions all acknowledge, a manifestation of the fact that «religious truth is existential and non-objectifiable.»

Certainly, the Intelligent Design advocates have a point: if natural laws can be shown to be inherently unable to explain complexity, then one may legitimately claim for the entity in question an irreducible complexity.

There is an irreducible conflict, a radical opposition, between the creative operation of each of these qualities, corresponding each time to a thetic16 judgment, and the ambition that human consciousness can have of verifying them for itself, by itself.

Instead of the Power whom man obeys and for whom he decides, he knows only the law of his own spiritual being, and the idea of God becomes «the irreducible coefficient of moral processes in self - consciousness.»

It is significant, in the first place, because for the scientist it bridges the long - standing, troublesome and seemingly irreducible gap between biology and physics.

For Aristotle, the family is what Reilly nicely calls the «primary and irreducible element of society.»

In this perspective, every human being has an irreducible value and dignity — but also, because we have one Environment who fulfils all our knowing and loving and all our desire for love and truth, we are more deeply connected to each other than we sometimes dare to imagine.

In cosmological description, however, we can not pretend that by coming upon some irreducible particle or pattern of particulate activity we will have reached a firm foundation for a philosophy of nature.

But what is most absurd to the Western mind would appear to be most natural and spontaneous to the Buddhist mind, for here brute or irreducible «fact» is identified with salvation.

However much Stanglin and McCall want to protest that for Arminius it is grace that is necessary for human faith, he nonetheless left an irreducible space for human acts or beliefs that resist God's grace.

What it does offer, she tells us, is «something that is perhaps of even greater value... a framework for... a more realistic recognition of the irreducible diversity of human moral beliefs and practices, together with resources for a more nuanced assessment of these diverse mores.»

Neville's claim that Platonism is supported by a religious intuition of the «irreducible dualism between Form and chaos» (CG 67) in reality is simply unconvincing; every metaphysics acknowledges the contrast between order and disorder, but there is no reason to think that that contrast — as experienced — is any more genuine or vivid for a Platonist than for an Aristotelian.

At its irreducible minimum, Catholicism requires a belief that an all - knowing, all - powerful, immortal being created the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies 13,720,000,000 years ago (the age of the Universe) sat back and waited 10,000,000,000 years for the Earth to form, then waited another 3,720,000,000 years for human beings to gradually evolve, then, at some point gave them eternal life and sent its son to Earth to talk about sheep and goats in the Middle East.

To proclaim the criteria by which the Coming King will judge persons and nations, to exemplify those standards in the church as the new society, and to work for their recognition by the world — these are irreducible aspects of the Christian summons to the forgiveness of sins and new life, and to the lordship of the risen and returning King.

However, Professor Duméry does not do this, because his idealism refuses to recognize the objectivity of the divine actions which are the object of the Christian faith, objectivities which are irreducible to rational requirements and disconcerting for them.

But once the interview has passed, you're stuck with irreducible uncertainty — that endless wait for the call that may never come.

«Theres no question that theres a basic, irreducible number of C - sections we need to do for womens health,» Dr. Ricciotti says.

[To date, there are an increasing number of scientists who have long since departed from that scientific philosophy — and are seeking another more adequate explanation for the lack of transitional life forms in the fossil record or the increasing irreducible complexity of living things at the cellular level which appear to be by design rather than random modification.]

The road in Two - Lane Blacktop is treated as an irreducible given, for the characters and for the viewer.

«If you think, why did God create the world, how does he love the world, what in the world, if you imagine him through the lens of Christ, what in the world breaks his heart, it seems to me it's the irreducible beauty and pathos of human beings and their capacity for love and their capacity for loyalty and all the rest that is simply beautiful, even though in many forms it is in error, it is possibly destructive, and so on....

To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies.

He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions, including among others: Artur Żmijewski, Kunsthal - le Basel, Switzerland (2005); Das unmögliche Theatre, Kunsthalle Wien, Austria (2005); Irreducible: Contemporary Short Form Video 1995 — 2005, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, (2005); Artur Żmijewski.

«The riddle of art is that we do not know what it is until it is no longer that which it was,» Christov - Bakargiev writes in her essay entitled «The dance was very frenetic, lively, rattling, clanging, rolling, contorted, and lasted for a long time», this text comes closest to laying down her dense pattern of ideas in lieu of an irreducible curatorial concept.

«Irreducible: Contemporary Short Form Video,» CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA, January 19 — March 19, 2005; travels to the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York; cat.

The artists have voluntarily accepted new conditions for creating paintings - a series of radical reductions and eliminations in subject matter, image, association and stylistic device, as if to enable themselves to reach certain irreducible levels in the work of art and in the self.

Because for Reinhardt black was the absolute zero, the end of light: the irreducible limit of expression.

Some of it, related to chaotic weather dynamics are likely to be irreducible for any short time period, and so the best you can do is characterise that uncertainty (using ensemble forecasting for instance).

Secondly the inability to reduce the sensitivity for co2 doubling ie its irreducibility over the last 30 years or so suggest either the problem is ill posed, or indeed it is irreducible with all its random consequences.

Claim that for whatever situation you find uncertainty to be inconvenient, that the uncertainty is irreducible.

However, internal climate variability creates irreducible uncertainty in the projected future trends in snow resource potential, with about 90 % of snow - sensitive basins showing potential for either increases or decreases over the near - term decades.

If those values are entered accurately, the model should simulate the real world reasonably well, with due allowances for certain irreducible sources of uncertainty.

Where precision is an issue (e.g., in a climate forecast), only simulation ensembles made across systematically designed model families allow an estimate of the level of relevant irreducible imprecision... In each of these model — ensemble comparison studies, there are important but difficult questions: How well selected are the models for their plausibility?

Reading each of the chapters on planetary boundaries puts one in mind of an attempt to use the concept of irreducible complexity to make an argument for «intelligent design».

Firstly the title of the post is carbon cycle questions.This is an area that is one of the most difficult complex suite of problems for the cs community as it involves interaction with the biosphere and its irreducible limitations (read constraints).

This plausible but optimistic estimate of the irreducible emissions of methane and N2O associated with agriculture limits the extent to which the overall target depends on a miracle in agricultural technology — or, in a less sanguine view, the sacrifice of adequate nutrition for the preservation of the climate.

As for PNS, although PNS concepts like «irreducible complexity» got an airing I don't feel PNS was actually that much of an influence on what was discussed, yet alone what wa decided.

There is no irreducible or minimum amount of material that has to be disclosed in the open for the Art 6 rights of a controlled person to be preserved.

Mutuality is something of the «new kid on the block» as a test for determining employment status and is seen as part of the irreducible minimum to establish such status, along with personal service and control.