Sentences with phrase «from actual points»

Aside from the actual points and arguments made (they speak for themselves), what I find most interesting is the media's role here.

Process thinkers should not at any rate be trapped into denying the reality of time from any actual point of view, for as that great process thinker Benjamin Franklin once pointed out, time is «the stuff life is made of.»

Also, with the fast food analogy, I think you're using the wage argument to redirect away from the actual point that was made.

Generally, these reviews are created on sites that differ from the actual point of sale or service, and then highlighted or buried at the vendor's pleasure.

Not exact matches

I'm no lawyer, but it seems like the actual concept of the game is very different from that behind Scrabble where letters are rearranged to spell words and points are awarded based on careful mapping of the letters on the design of the board.

Write with a point of view — from an actual person to an actual person.

In the daily games, participants pay to compete for cash prizes against others in online leagues based on imaginary teams assembled from rosters of real players, which accumulate points based on how those players perform in actual games.

But my specific point is that while everybody is busy telling you that «kids don't use email» or «email is dead» I have actual data from portfolio company's CEO showing the efficacy of email as a communication and marketing channel.

But it was very clear from the very beginning on the part of the actual Congressmen that they weren't going to support it because they had already come out on the floor with such vehement opposition to the bill and pointing out exactly what was wrong with the bill, that it didn't have to be done in a hurry.

In these types of ventures, the gross loan portfolio appears large — but consider that the actual net revenue or return from these businesses is anywhere from a tenth of a basis point, topping out at 1 - 2 percent.

➢ Another 2014 study found that one - year - advance growth forecasts from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the European Central Bank from 2008 to 2012 showed «substantial over-optimism, averaging 1.6 to 2.4 percentage points above actual growth.»

A big point of contention from nay - sayers and those in the trucking industry who understand logistics was the lack of announcement of the Tesla Semi's actual weight.

So if potential is 3 or 3.5 % in the long run and 5 % in the short run and your actual growth is 2 %, this is a depression from my point of view.

An article from a few days ago in the San Diego Union Tribune made a similar point: that falling pension fund return estimates are not a cause for concern, because pension funds have shown in their actual performances that they are handily beating those estimates.

Believing there was an actual «Adam», «Eve» and / or «Noah» goes beyond the realm of history to me and into the mythic (again from my point of view).

All the decisions of the consequent nature flow from the primordial nature, and though the former does not fit the present actual occasions into a ready - made pattern of the temporal past (as Ford carefully points out: IPQ 13:356), yet «the weaving of Cod's physical feelings upon his primordial concepts (PR 524) amounts to the emergence into time, as predicates of God's propositional feelings, of the very valuations of his nontemporal decision.

Jorge Nobo seems to be making much the same point in the following passage from Whitehead's Metaphysics of Extention and Solidarity: «the state of the universe from which C [a given actual occasion] springs — i.e., the state of the universe which gives birth to C — is both outside and inside C.

How was Isaiah able to know that the earth is like a «circle» long in advance of actual observation, such as when the Apollo astronauts confirmed that the earth was indeed round in July 1969 from their vantage point on the moon?

Besides, if all potentiality is also actuality in God, then the distinction between potential and actual must really be an anthropomorphic illusion, invisible from his point of view.

In very many instances in actual life the Church had to leave the individual to his own conscience, even though it was neither easy nor sure for the individual to draw from general Christian principles a concrete prescription for a definite course of action at a definite point of space and time in his life.

The genius of Britain, discovered both in the internal relations of the home country and in the various parts of its actual Empire, is a curiously flexible method for the changing of the status quo — a method which prevented crises from reaching the desperation point, ensured the gradual development of liberty, and provided a model of the kind of change which is just in time to anticipate the resort to violence.

Looked at from the point of view of its immediate pattern of self - enjoyment, an actual entity can be regarded as self - creative.

Looked at from the point of view of its prehension of past occasions, an actual entity (say, in the personally ordered society of actual entities which constitute the «self» of a human being) can be viewed as conditioned by, caused by, the other entities which it objectifies.

Looked at from the point of view of its conceptual anticipation of the future, an actual entity can be considered as the teleological aim at a novel ideal.

Cf. D. Emmet: «But the doctrine of the objective immortality of actual entities... in the constitution of other actual entities is, as Miss Stebbing points out, a departure from the earlier view of events as particular and transient, and objects alone as able to «be again».

There have been many other theories of atonement, each picking out what a given generation took to be the worst possible human situation and going on to affirm that in the action of God in Jesus, God met us precisely at that point: slavery to demonic powers, from which we have been delivered; actual slavery to human masters, with manumission accomplished in Christ; guilt for wrongdoing, with Christ as the advocate who pleads for, and secures, our release; corruptibility and mortal death, met in Christ with healing and eternal life....

Put differently, the expression «intermediate universal» signals an approach to propositions from the «top down» and not from the «bottom up,» that is, from the perspective of actual entities or actual occasions invested with indeterminacy.1 Nonetheless, such a qualification marks a pointed move towards a distinction between propositions and eternal objects.

Indeed, from Altizer's point of view, any effort to relate authentic theology to actual churches is doomed to futility.

At least half of his life after his conversion in 193 was spent as a member of the Montanists — to the point of founding his own North African version, one destined to last to the time of St Augustine — and the Montanists, we must remember, were not simply separated from communion with the Catholic Church: they were indeed, as St Thomas Aquinas says of Tertullian himself, actual heretics.

From a consistently relational point of view, this is explained as the relationship between God's Logos and Jesus as the twin poles of one, actual existence.

We make now another point which follows on from the real, the actual impact upon the creation, of the sin of man, and the rejection of God and his Christ.

From the point of view of physical time actual entities are temporally atomic.

He himself always characterizes it as cosmology and does so from the point of view that the latter deals with a single genus of elementary entities which form the building - blocks of the world: «The presumption that there is only one genus of actual entities constitutes an ideal of cosmological theory to which the philosophy of organism endeavors to conform» (PR 168).

Of course this is a crude abstraction from any actual physiological explanation of perception, but from a philosophical point of view, the details of the theory are irrelevant.

This tenet is, in fact, virtually equivalent to the previous point, because this tenet insists that the actual world consists of a nexus of cause - effect relations among physical things that is not open to influence from alleged nonphysical agents.

Finally, it should be pointed out that Whitehead himself is unable to stick with the postulated uniform character of an actual entity as resolutely and univocally as he alleges: God as an actual entity is more than just specifically different from the other actual entities.

From the point of view of physic - al time the actual occasions are temporally atomic.

The fact that Whitehead understands human experience to consist in discrete «drops» or «actual occasions» of experience may be an example of the fact that Whitehead's generalizations were developed from more than one starting point, in this case modern quantum theory as well as psychology.

From the point of view established in Process and Reality, if prehensions are attributed to organs and cells and molecules, then there are actual occasions at these successive levels.

Viewed from the vantage point of Whitehead's conclusion and the recognition that God is an actual entity in which the two natures are abstract parts, we must say that God as a whole is everlasting, but that he envisages all possibility eternally.

However, two points remain at which God seems to function in presenting eternal objects to actual occasions in a way radically different from that in which they present eternal objects to each other.

From the point of view of an actual entity in its concrescence, there are no other actual entities but entities only.

John B. Cobb makes a crucial point in this regard: «Since the actual decisions about the course of history are made on other grounds and on the basis of a situation that is not Christ - centered, one cuts oneself off from all that» (Occasional Papers, United Methodist Board of Higher Education and Ministry, 1:12, August 9, 1976, p. 6).

I think it was an actual revelation from Jesus Christ, maybe something closer to a dictation, than a carefully composed and edited literary masterpiece, but it's a minor point.

Go spend a day on ABC news and see if you do nt notice a trend... like actual articles from each view point.

Moreover, from the Whiteheadian point of view one has to recognize that the evolving events — actual animals and plants as we meet them in real life — are influenced by environmental factors as well as genetic.

From the point of view of process philosophy, the actual realization of entropy would mean the end of creativity itself.

It is important to reemphasize that the points above are drawn from the actual experience of dialogue.

Felt points out that Whitehead makes a clear distinction between single actual entities and corpuscular societies (PR 112), and since composite entities, such as the Castle Rock, fall in the latter category, they must be excluded from the former.

In determining the actual contents and limits of the Old Testament from a canonical point of view, the first major unit is, of course, the Pentateuch (Genesis - Deuteronomy).