Sentences with phrase «generalities by»

Larry Groff: The Painting Center has an essay about your upcoming show on their website says that you recalled vividly that Fairfield Porter «likened painting to poetry in urging the consideration of «particularization of experience» Porter also said along this line of thinking: «You can only buck generalities by attention to fact,» Porter continued.

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Bored by details, they tend to talk in generalities.

She's also bothered by convoluted language and generalities unsupported by specific numbers or facts (such as, «employees are our greatest assets»).

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.

Most stories use large cities like Vancouver and Toronto as examples of what is occurring in the market, or they talk in generalities that don't address what's really happening in local areas like those served by the REALTORS ® Association of Hamilton - Burlington (RAHB).

As Anderson writes, «Aron had too profound a sense of the diversity of history to admit easily to a strong notion of an ideal society or best regime, or to succumb to the extreme generalities favored by literary political thinkers.»

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.

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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.

As Deleuze writes, the «universality of the singular» is «by nature... always revealing a singularity opposed to the particulars subsumed under laws, a universal opposed to the generalities which gave rise to law.

First, a unique revealing event can not be conceptually exhausted or completely resolved into any system; it can not be completely contained by any generality or in its specific singularity removed by any general experience.

When faced by demands that they «cash» their claims about God as active, theologians too easily fall into vagaries and generalities.

In addition, conceptual feelings would lose their own special generality if they were not carried by physical feelings.

Academic generalists are regarded with pity, condescension, or contempt and usually find it possible to survive in the academic scramble only by redeeming their generality through affiliation with one of the specialized disciplines.

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.

And yet they lack civilization by reason of the deficient generality of their mental functioning.

Griffin & Sherburne, New York: The Free Press, 1978, 96) His comments are conjectural because he has left metaphysical generality and is»... considering the more special possibilities of explanation consistent with our general cosmological doctrine, but not necessitated by it.»

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).

(The generality of American Christians, provoked by the activities of groups like the Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Christian Scientists, has shown similar impatience at the limits of its own tolerance.)

When he discusses «the hierarchy of societies composing our present epoch,» he says he is «deserting metaphysical generality» and only «considering the more special possibilities of explanation consistent with our general cosmological doctrine, but not necessitated by it» (PR 147).

Definition of PLATITUDE an idea or expression that has been used by many people Synonyms banality, bromide, chestnut, cliché (also cliche), groaner, homily, platitude, shibboleth, trope, truism Related Words conventional wisdom, party line, routine; inanity; generality, generalization, simplification; adage, proverb, idiom, saw, saying; old wives» tale, stereotype Near Antonyms profundity

Only what is «actual» and in creation is generically characterized by the ultimate generality, This means that there are fundamental entities in Whitehead's cosmology which are not species of the genus «creativity.»

The generality intended here is supplied by Peirce's concept of individual identity.

He himself clearly anticipated and clearly formulated it: «The position taken by this objection is that we ought to describe detailed matter of fact, and elicit the laws with a generality strictly limited to the systematization of these described details» (PR 14/21).

They are put off by the level of generality at which process philosophy and theology operate.

The denial by physical science of «action at a distance» is a comment about the present cosmic epoch and carries with it no metaphysical generality.

Let me reverse that question and dance with it a bit on the high heels of generality, asking, What is there by way of a common structure that is good in process thought?

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Pressed on specifics by reporters Tuesday after an unrelated news conference on crime statistics, the mayor spoke only in generalities, saying he relied on lawyers to interpret what they could and couldn't do.

By extending this new method to various solar - type protostars using ALMA, the diversity and generality of the chemical evolution from interstellar matter to planetary matter will be unveiled within the next few years.

The generality of this observation was further confirmed by examining the expression of miR - 7 in 2 different cell lines, CN34 and MCF7, and their metastatic variants, CN34BoM, CN34BrM, and MCF7BoM.

These ideas, expressed in generalities, are by no means to be construed as scientifically acquired evidence.

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It is so much easier to spout generalities meant to sound superior when you are not troubled by having any knowledge of your subject.

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Driving these roads and byways at speed reduces the visual experience from detail to generality and we never can reproduce the whole picture of the trip, only scattered elements as if they had been caught by a strobe light.

Presenting these photographs in a simple, straightforward way allows the viewer not only to study the generalities of the subject implied by the building's classification, but also to see what is unique and individualistic.»

Someone manipulates events, people willingly collaborate in their own duping, they jump on the bandwagon dazzled by glittering generalities and other techniques of propaganda, and the young people coming up after them, not tricked by the Pied Piper, call them crazy and move on.

Important note on generality: The central limit would be the same whether excited by white noise, chaos, or lunisolar oscillations.

-- it becomes easier for students to appreciate that the Zeroth Law can be derived by the calculus of variations in complete generality, without recourse to numerical examples.

In my experience, you can't clarify muddy questions like these by glittering generalities.

Generalities In this section, the exponential wide band model (EWBM) 25,26 is used to provide benchmark data to validate the total emissivity models developed by Johnson6 Leckner, 2 Taylor and Foster,» Modak, 3 Smith et a1., 13 Coppale and Vervish14 and Steward and Kocaefe» (see Table 2).

Why put theories to the «proof» by looking for interesting exceptions to the generalities promoted by experts?

Samuelsohn just talks in generalities about how a Republican president could sign a cap - and - trade bill if passed by a Democratic Congress, and bring to the table Republicans who have viscerally opposed anything associated with Obama.

Without meaning to be rude or flippant, it seems to me that you are now deliberately avoiding this by discussing generalities and claiming that I am somehow making the conversation lose focus.

Nothing is statistics is common - sensical, because neither the generalities of nature nor the random variation are closely matched by our common sense.

Now we are demonstrating the generality of it by having another type of bacteria take nitrogen out of the atmosphere to make fertilizer.»

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.