Sentences with phrase «for the ambiguity about»

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The best thing about Smart Contracts is that they are precise, and do not allow any room for vagueness and ambiguity - everything is clear cut.

Religion is really about psychology, trying to keep cognitive dissonances at bay, ambiguity (in) tolerance, and the need for cognitive closure.

We should know, for instance, whether in these passages he is talking about all women or only wives (the Greek word which he uses, gune, regularly means both and is the only regular Greek word for both, so that linguistically this ambiguity is unresolvable).

The ambivalence on the part of many scientists about what they ultimately hope for, and the ambiguity of their language about it, is matched by similar tip - toeing by some seasoned science reporters.

Bater pertinently comments, «If there was that much ambiguity about the resurrection of Jesus for the eyewitnesses, on whose testimony all the succeeding ages must depend, do not the efforts twenty centuries later to establish it as demonstrable and unambiguous take on a certain comical effect?»

Whatever the ambiguity of the cosmic clues, Bellow is optimistic about humanity's future and has only scorn for Weltschmertz.

Yet the same leaders remain quite unconcerned about their own ambiguity or vagueness on the moral issue of concrete justice for homosexual people and their need for sensitive and competent pastoral care.

I see here (and in some other passages) ambiguity (Martin is austere about the need for unambiguity, and so am I).

As believers, we must acknowledge the extent to which our supposed God - talk fails to define who or what God is, not to the degree that we stop talking about God, but to the degree that we leave room in our theology for mystery, doubt, complexity, and ambiguity.

When I get caught in these moments of mental challenge where for a few nights I can not sleep because I can't figure out what I think about a certain subject that has suddenly presented itself to me and have to live with that ambiguity - well, that's when I feel completely inspired.

For anti-government actors, the mass media are on the government payroll, and their ambiguity about the necessity of impeachment is a capital sin.

This creates a puzzle for academics: the ambiguity about whether donations are rewards or incentives — as well as the sheer multitude of factors that affect politicians» decisions — has led to inconclusive evidence about the influence of money in debates like this.

The clerk of the House had warned last week a potential ambiguity about the basis of the principles for the code meant parliament's privilege, established in the Bill of Rights, could be under threat.

«With no ambiguity about opioid abuse being a public health crisis, New Yorkers hold many groups responsible for the current epidemic,» said Siena College Research Institute Director Don Levy.

Thinking about the seemingly intractable ambiguities of the species concepts got a lot easier for me after my visit with de Queiroz.

According to Jerry Sheehan, assistant director for policy development at the National Library of Medicine, the 2007 law is full of ambiguities about which clinical trials had to register with the site and what kinds of results they had to report.

The ambiguity is worth keeping in mind the next time you read an article warning about the dismal job market for scientists.

As for flipping ambiguity, such as the duck - rabbit illusion, there are two theories about how they work: either the brain tires of one image and switches to the other, or there are two perceptions vying for centre stage.

Quarry's knack for conveying moral ambiguity and its mastery of setting reminds me of another very good show that took forever to catch on; it was about a cancer - stricken chemistry teacher in Albuquerque who started cooking meth to make money.

Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams Program: Special Presentations Headline: Battlefield Earth Scott's Take: I'm reluctant to say too much about P.T. Anderson's mesmerizing drama in part because I'll be writing about it at length for next week's limited release and in part because I need to see it a second time here at the festival in order to sort out its many ambiguities and elisions.

While Kylo and Rey clearly share the same understanding about her parents, after she searches her feelings and knows it to be true, there's enough ambiguity in the scene to leave room for doubt.

So, it leaves the door open for ambiguity and debate among viewers about whether the character truly died at the end of the film.

The film rates this high for me not just because of its technical skill (the ensemble acting is terrific, with Kelly Macdonald in particular doing great work in just a few scenes, and Roger Deakins's cinematography is as good as anything he's done with the Coens, and that's saying a lot) but because of its ambiguity: because the questions it raises about narrative and about society are as interesting as those raised by any other film (but one) of 2007.

It's entirely plausible that MGS5 was compromised by Kojima's acrimonious departure from Konami, but MGS5's ambiguity feels like a fitting conclusion for a series that raised weighty, human, questions — about surveillance society, the nature of self and digital culture — a decade ahead of time.

There will no longer be any ambiguity about whether school superintendents can cede authority to others for final dispute resolution connected with a school district Educator Evaluation and Support plan.

The more I protested about this ambiguity, the more Joanna pointed out to me that it was both a terrible and wonderful part of life: terrible because you can't count on anything for sure — like certain good health and no possibility of cancer; wonderful because no human being knows when another is going to die — no doctor can absolutely predict the outcome of a disease.

In 2011, for instance, speaking about the ambiguities of Xhosa male identity, he remarked on the lowly place of boys before the all - important circumcision practices marking the transition to manhood.

What I like about Matisse's work, for example, is that it is empty and open — there is a sense of things that caught him by surprise — I like those moments of ambiguity in artists» work.

For several years I've been trying to locate a sweet spot between the single - mindedness and functionality of illustration and the ambiguity and nuance of «fine» art with work about the transient nature of life itself.

... And that ambiguity is also entirely the point of Schutz's work, which looks for problems in the realm of painting — problems about how a painting is made and what it is made out of — that are also psychological problems: ones not necessarily specific to the painter as an individual, but that might be encountered by anyone trying to construct a life out of the ready - made materials of the world we've been thrown into.»

As a viewer, there is an ambiguity about whether to admire the skill of this horse - whisperer (the great grandson of a sheriff of the old Wild West); or rather to feel pity for the horse, who, clearly nervous, is being mastered against her will, despite the lay down's supposed restorative and relaxing effect.

Besides all the high - end artworks, the special thing about this exhibition, The Age of Ambiguity: Abstract Figuration / Figurative Abstraction is the curator, who is responsible for the subject and selection of works.

This ambiguity ties into the small - scale works organized for the gallery at 18th Street Arts Center in that through various modes and utilizing diverse genres, they deal with investigating the shortcomings and inexactitudes of different systems of transcribing and historicizing an authentic telling of the tales about what constitutes Latin America (ness) and its dislodging into the United States.

Swinging between ambition and ambiguity, Wolfson's production has been consistently thought provoking for over a decade and is about to be celebrated by a career - defining exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

Looking for in - between states, suspension, a hovering in the air, variable qualities of light, I feel my paintings are more about ambiguity and openness than essences.

Taking the Latin for «festival», Martin's work celebrates the ambiguity of the term, how it embodies our attitudes about both life and death, both jubilation and the fragility of our existence.

The question would then be: is this spatial ambiguity a positive (maybe even distinguishing) property of abstract painting — maybe reflecting something deeply human about (for example) the» space» occupied by conciousness?

And, in fact, from what we understand about the possible volcanic and solar forcings involved (and the latter is somewhat limited by ambiguities in the record before the satellite era), there is no reason to expect that the natural trend would have been for rising temperatures in the second half of the 20th century.

IMO, the science dictates that the «debate» about climate change probably won't be «settled» for maybe 150 years, when error ranges will pretty much exclude ambiguity at a meaningful level.

You reference several blog posts by J. Duarte - who seems to feel that the Cook et al authors were dishonest idiots (the paper passed peer review of methods and results by reviewers the editors respected for domain knowledge), that the raters were blinded by ideological bias (totally ignoring the author ratings giving confirming identical results), complaining about raters discussing criteria (when it's essential for everyone to agree on the same critera, clarifying ambiguities - and that radom presentation prevented collusion on any particular item), and in general making truly absurd and unsupported accusations.

First, you write, «Whatever flaws or ambiguities exist in the paper, the use of the letters as source materials for any comparison can not purely be a test of agreement with the IPCC (as we stated above — you could agree with every word in the IPCC report and still not want to do anything about emissions), but must be a test of someone's opinion about what to do about it... Thus the only way in my mind to interpret a comparison of signers is a categorization by policy direction, not understanding or agreement on the science.

Gore muddied the water, and his sequel did worse than fail to clear up new ambiguity he created, it opened the door for deep, tough examination of why his «industry - corrupted skeptic climate scientists» accusation which relies on a single source for its support is neither consistent nor crystal clear about its origins.

«Trump's defiance and moral ambiguity — to put it nicely — is not only embarrassing, but makes it difficult for lawyers on the ground in China that are proud to talk about the durability of American values, institutions, and commitment to the rule of law,» said James Zimmerman, managing partner of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton's Beijing office.

Whatever the occasional benefits of latent ambiguities in legal writing — giving contracts professors something to talk about, for example — there's less tolerance for that sort of thing in computing.

My colleagues and I have been arguing about this for some time now, because there's some level of ambiguity in the legal...

The lesson for lawyers working with these types of statements provided over e-mails is to remember once again the perceived informal nature of such communications, which could lead to ambiguity about their meaning or unintended disclosures.

Attachment theory also explains healthy development, as securely attached partners are open to reframes and different points of view, and able to tolerate ambiguity, to meta - communicate, to handle learning unflattering things about themselves, to feel and express regret for their past failures recognizing and meeting their partner's needs, and to see their understanding of the world and others as working models.

For couples who are not married, however, it's a lot more likely that there would be some unspoken element of ambiguity about their future together.