Sentences with phrase «from present knowledge»

It addresses key issues concerning climate change in the broader context of global change and focusses on moving from present knowledge to future solutions.

Not exact matches

In this way, knowledge, experience and theory have limitations and can be deterrents to seizing and keeping up with unexpected changes arisng from the present arrangement.

Being present in such diverse industry, the blend of expertise from financial services and technology who could marry knowledge of both these worlds with high tech solution and a scalable business model was a must have.

To me my knowledge at the present, we have no idea and won't really ever know, what primitive dna looks like because we do not have any way of getting a blood sample from millions of years ago.

If you think that Christianity is inherently peaceable your knowledge of Christian history must have skipped right from 33 CE to the present day, and put blinders on for an added bonus.

If man today is asking can God's existence be affirmed as transcendent without making God a functional element in an abstract scheme, it may be fruitful to realize that knowledge and experience of God involve a cyclic growth process from experience to schematization, from formulation to God present in the dynamism of man's life and activity.

What was yet future and known as such, moves into the present and from there into the past; but the divine knowledge accompanies it in its course, it assumes a changing shape in the divine knowledge itself, and that presupposes a movement, a change even in the knowing activity of God himself.»

Regarding knowledge of possibility, we can, for present purposes, avoid discussing the well - known difference between Whitehead and Hartshorne as to whether God has a primordial vision of all eternal objects (possibility), as Whitehead asserts, or whether God derives eternal objects from the world, as Hartshorne does.

The molecules comprising the human body exist within a deterministic framework, for «the future state of the molecule could be calculated from a knowledge of its past and present history within the system» (PW 233/258).

If you're going to deliberately hobble your child's intellectual development, you might as well cover the full spectrum of knowledge as well as eliminate the risk that some educator (read: tool of Satan) might come along later in their life and present them with the knowledge hidden from them earlier.

The telling point that Galileo presented ironically was that if you really wanted to start from a small number of entities, you could always consider the letters of the alphabet as the fundamental entities, since you could construct the whole of human knowledge out of them.

There were sixty - five candidates for baptism, all neatly clad (so different from former appearance) and their faces beamed with delight... They were questioned, not only to ascertain their knowledge of scriptural truth, but also to ascertain, as far as possible, their apprehension of Christ as a living and a present Saviour.

In the biblical tradition, God was thought to possess full knowledge of human history, past and present; and from time to time he chose to reveal the future to certain select people, such as Joseph, Daniel and John of Patmos.

At the present state of our knowledge, it seems most probable that all life on earth was monophyletic at its origin, i.e., derived from a single kind of primordial life.

As being can never be studied as an independent object, the history of metaphysical thought can not be without implications for the history of being:» [E] very science goes through a process of historical development in which, although the fundamental or general problem remains unaltered, the particular form in which this problem presents itself changes from time to time; and the general problem never arises in its pure or abstract form, but always in the particular or concrete form, determined by the present state of knowledge or, in other words, by the development of thought hitherto.

That knowledge which had been inherited from time immemorial was readily reverenced as being of divine origin, and was incomparable with anything that could be discovered in the present.

If this aspect differed in kind in the case of Jesus from every other member of the species man, then in the present state of our knowledge it would seem impossible rightly to describe Jesus as a man.17 It may be the case that most Christians (and most Christian theologians) in most centuries have accepted this claim: but most have not shared either our modern sensitivity to the difference between history and mythology or our concern for the principles of logic.

This theory may be only an unverifiable inference considered from the point of view of a «perspective» theory of knowledge («objective relativism»), since we can know the past only through the eyes of the present.

The extent to which the Bible is imbedded in our artistic and literary heritage would, even if no other factor were present, make a knowledge of the Bible imperative and highlight the cultural loss resulting from its exclusion from the public schools.

The word of the church to the world must therefore encounter the world in all its present reality from the deepest knowledge of the world, if it is to be authoritative.

Such a representation of God corresponds to the conception which the Greek man had of himself as a microcosm, receiving form from a law identical with the great cosmic law, a form which is present as an ideal norm in human will and knowledge.

A fuller understanding of revelation may eventually require such historical knowledge, but it is the task of systematic theology, as distinct from historical theology, to sift out of the traditional material what strikes it as the content most suitably challenging, as well as Good News, for our time and for our present readers.

First, he distinguishes from classical empiricism a revisionary description of experience according to which sense perception is neither the only nor even the primary mode of experience, but is rather derived from a still more elemental awareness both of ourselves and of the world around us» (PP 78).6 On Ogden's analysis, both the classical and this first type of revisionary empiricism «assume that the sole realities present in our experience, and therefore the only objects of our certain knowledge, are ourselves and the other creatures that constitute the world» (PP 79) 7 With these «two more conventional types of empiricism» he contrasts a «comprehensive» type of revisionary empiricism distinguished from them by its consideration of the possibility (and then also by its claim) that the internal awareness it asserts together with the former revisionary type is «the awareness not merely of ourselves, and of our fellow creatures, but also of the infinite whole in which we are all included as somehow one» (PP 87, 80, 85).

Weak human nature will not let us believe in the promises of God with a confidence that purges from the soul the anguish of fear and unbelief, the Anfechtungen... Therefore, in Luther's discovery of justification the Christian was liberated from the self - imposed requirement to present a perfect mental attitude to God, to confuse belief with knowledge, faith with the direct intuition of an observed world.

The Old and New Testaments do not contradict any present day scientific knowledge about the universe, proving that scripture did not come from men.

We are fearfully unprepared from a personal standpoint for the technical unity which the progress of modern knowledge has presented to us.

God «desires all people to be saved and come to a knowledge of the truth» (1 Timothy 2:4) and we are assured that people from «every tribe and language and people and nation» will be present in heaven (Revelation 5:9).

And if besides relations of term to term, experience also presents to us independent terms, the living genera being something quite different from systems of laws, one - half, at least, of our knowledge bears on the «thing - in - itself,» the very reality.

His point is that the knowledge possessed by a percipient is completely the awareness which is derivative from the percipient's then - present bodily event.

But such significance will depend upon the establishment of some point of contact between that knowledge from the past and the situation of the man in the present.

Historical knowledge from the past becomes directly significant, i.e. it becomes historic knowledge, to us in our present in so far as it «speaks to our condition», «has a direct point of contact with us», or the like.

Then, secondly, there are those aspects of this knowledge which, like aspects of historical knowledge of any figure from the past, can become significant to us in our present in various ways.

«Historic» or significant knowledge from the past should always be subject to the tests of demonstrating that it is, indeed, historical knowledge and that the avenue, channel or point of contact between it and the man from whom it becomes significant in the present can be defined.

How can the experiences and knowledge gained to reduce wasted food throughout the food supply chain — from production to consumption to resource management — inform the way we present the fundamental message of food recovery and recycling?

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«Our challenge is to expose relentlessly what this cost is, to show how the decision was based on imperfect knowledge which will now become informed knowledge, to calculate in «easy to understand» ways how proceeding will cause real damage to our country; and to build support for finding a way out from the present rush over the cliff's edge.

Rural locations present very different challenges so this is a great opportunity to obtain this sort of knowledge from BASC.»

My unease is caused by the knowledge that anyone other than Corbyn would be listened to at the present time because of the months of attrition from within and without the party.

A study comparing results from computer - based versus paper - and - pencil tests of students» energy knowledge was presented at the annual AERA meeting and highlighted in the «Curriculum Matters» blog of Education Week.

To harness the energy already generated by the March for Science, «clear, science - based messages must be presented repeatedly to both those making policy and to the broader public, and these messages should focus on the value of scientific knowledge that results from well - funded research,» added Rovito.

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Dr. Mary Beth Bauer and Dr. Adeola R. Davis, our guest speakers from the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Eskind Biomedical Library in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, were pleased to present their programs on Knowledge Management and Health Literacy to an engaged audience.

We think that the ability to uniquely determine the future from knowledge of our present state is important, but the real world might end up having other ideas.

Famous travellers from past and present, such as Odysseus, Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, Captain Cook, David Livingstone, Amelia Earhart and Mark Thatcher, were offered the benefits of modern knowledge like atlases and globes, links to global positioning systems and Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days.

«In fact, if it is possible to demonstrate that these preferences are already present within days from birth, when the newborn baby is still unable to speak and presumably has very limited language knowledge, then we can infer that there is an inborn bias that prefers certain words to others,» comments Gomez.

A special March supplement to Medical Care presents updates from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) Multiple Chronic Conditions (MCC) Research Network, formed to address knowledge gaps and research challenges in meeting the complex health care needs of this growing population.

Key Japanese leaders from academia, industry and government will present at this must - attend for anyone seeking to gain first - hand knowledge and insight into what is happening in Japan.

I had prior knowledge that there are climate deniers that are funded from Big Coal and Big Oil, but what I learned about Willie Soon's funding, motives, works published, and past (and present) controversies shocked me.

This report presents findings from a nationally representative household survey conducted exclusively by Knowledge Networks, Inc. (KN), for C.S. Mott Children's Hospital via a method used in many published studies.

«I hope that students that come to these events leave with the knowledge that there is a community of like - minded peers interested in neural engineering and with fresh insights from the research presented.»