Sentences with phrase «generality at»

As a legal realist would be quick to point out, picking a statute's purpose, selecting the level of generality at which to describe the purpose, and making the consequentialist judgment about which interpretation promotes that purpose can be a deeply political and policy - laden endeavor, one that looks a lot more like making law than finding it.

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

One could similarly relax the axioms for a topological space to achieve more generality at the expense of losing the key features of spatiality.

The crisis may not have been about generalities at all, but about a series of particular experiences of depression and a particular cure.

Not exact matches

During the speech, Notley spoke in generalities that left, at best, mixed impressions.

«She was very careful to talk in broad generalities, which gives her the opportunity to keep September on the table,» said Lindsey Piegza, chief economist at brokerage firm Stifel Nicolaus & Co..

you will need to provide more information for it to be at least one that others can draw some sort of logical conclusion from, either through specifics or some sort of generality which would account for the missing information in your thought experiment.

The charges went higher and higher up the ladder of generality until the sex crime committed at UVA became a confirmation of the basic theory of privileged Western male oppression that is so widely subscribed to in the disciplines of cultural studies.»

At this point, we must begin a survey of the ground realities and socio - economic generalities of peoples» lives worldwide, especially in Asia.

And rigorous realism requires going far beyond the usual generalities; for the natural man fools himself about fact, can not bear to look at a situation as it is, invents stories to cover up reality.

In a manner analogous to Aristotle's grounding of induction in «experience,» Whitehead is quite emphatic in stating that direct observation is incapable of serving as the springboard for arriving at the larger generalities.

And so while it may indeed transpire that concept - schemes may be so «disjoint» that one can not be translated into the other, they are never so disjoint that one can not find within the resources of each sufficient expository resources materials to render the claims of the other accessible at a level of generality that allows of an information transfer which — however imperfect — suffices to make communicative contact possible.

provided that physical science maintains its denial of «action at a distance,» the safer guess is that direct objectification is practically negligible except for contiguous occasions; but that this practical negligibility is a characteristic of the present cosmic epoch, without any metaphysical generality.

Provided that physical science maintains its denial of «action at a distance,» the safer guess is that direct objectification is practically negligible except for contiguous occasions; but that this practical negligibility is a characteristic of the present cosmic epoch, without any metaphysical generality (Process and Reality, An Essay in Cosmology 468 - 469).

The claims for poetry that emerge at the end of this passage are not only bold, they are very general; their boldness and their generality are alike problematic.

Since a discussion of this sort so easily runs into generalities, some definitions are required at the start.

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.)

The one movement aims at precision and clarity taking as its model the formal or the empirical sciences, the other aims at historical depth and hermeneutical generality taking a humanistic and value - oriented approach.

The task of these other branches is to present, at a high level of generality, the basic themes that belong to a Christian understanding of reality.

Hartshorne's assumption that the microcosm of any particular human experience, at the utmost level of metaphysical generality, resembles the macrocosmic universe even though the latter is an almost infinitely vast conglomeration of other experiences.

«8 At the same time, religion is itself always interested in the universal, because the generalities of philosophy give some coherence to the particularities of emotion and feeling that belong to the data of religion.

Neither claim, at that level of generality, helps one judge whether particular «actions» of God are intentional agential responses to particular petitions.

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.

If this is so, we should be able to demonstrate that spiritual quests, on the analogy of rites of passage, do not occur, unfold, or follow each other randomly but have an order that can be systematically described, even if only at a very high level of generality.

One might fairly ask at what point our Secular Fundamentalists and moral libertarians might feel disposed to concede that their prescriptions for society have not achieved their aims and have, instead, failed — and failed dismally with the most damaging consequences for the stability of society and the happiness of the generality of its members.

But let's not waste time speaking in generalities so it looks like there's a normal - sized paragraph at the top of this article, let's get to these rankings, huh?

Just generalities, at best.

If you intend to look for another industry job, then the ability to share scientific generalities on your project, your meeting abstracts, patents you've applied for, and your supervisor's name at your last company will be more important than the fact that you've published in the journal Biophysical Communications.

The system includes software that allows users to describe, at a high level of generality, the experiments they wish to conduct.

Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yeah, I would say at least 75 %, and we talk in generalities, right?

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Of course, tired audiences may tune out at certain moments along the way, as we are treated to the generalities of the workout montage and, inevitably, the final countdown.

This can be done at a broad level of generality (for example, to establish a student's overall level of proficiency in a subject) or in greater diagnostic detail (for example, to explore how a student is thinking and to identify specific misconceptions).

The first is that you are talking about particular individuals, at the extreme end of the competence scale, and therefore analyses of the generality of teachers are unlikely to apply.

BMW's press conference at this year's North American International Auto Show was short on specifics and long on generalities about the success of the company.

Even if you decide to use the higher style of writing, keep your writing at a lower level of generalities to add interest.

Penguin's submission added that «while, in addition to purely social matters, general book industry issues and trends were discussed at high - levels of generality, including the growth of ebooks and Amazon's role therein, Makinson did so pursuant to antitrust legal advice and avoided competitively sensitive topics like terms of trade, prices, or confidential competitive matters».

As for the bank stress - testing, one can look at it two ways: 1) the way I looked at it at the time — short on details, many generalities, not trusting the results.

Like all attempts at labeling, the categories that are described below represent generalities that won't be true for every case.

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.

I mean there's maybe a surface generality about them that might be defined, or seen, but I think that all those artists are first of all sincere, as sincere as the artists who created non-objective imagery, and why has non-objective imagery been so holy for so many years, how it ever got to be that way is beyond me, except as an historian, looking at it historically, you can understand why it did, because there was so much, the revolution of the camera, and the revolution of everything that happened at the turn of the century, the way we thought for so long which gave birth to a need of this kind of thing.

Despairing, at this point, of ever getting you to recognize the crucial difference between processes with continuous, as opposed to discrete, spectra, I leave you to take pride in saving microsecnds of CPU time at the expense of greater generality of DFT programming.

As a generality: people are very good at seeing patterns, even ones which are not there.

With some generality, you can say that at a given wavelength, the emissivity and absorptivity are equal.

Determining how to elaborate on the principles set forth in the Memorandum in enough detail to be of real assistance in their implementation, while at the same time retaining sufficient generality to be applicable across Executive departments and agencies with a wide variety of missions and structures, has been particularly challenging.

Given an ensemble of models from which an observable variable takes the mean value m 1 = 0 (without loss of generality) and standard deviation s 1, and an observation of this variable which takes the value m 2 with associated uncertainty s 2, the observation is initially at a normalised distance m 2 / s 1 from the ensemble mean.

While you're at it, you might want to ask yourself how you think global warming can or should be addressed (assuming you believe it can be) and articulate that in a manner that does not involve vague generalities or obtuse abstractions, and avoids propositions that are contradictory.

Having taken a cursory look at the DOJ's study, I agree with Bob's criticism and in fact, given the generality of the questions put forward as to what constitutes a «justiciable» problem, I'm actually impressed (in a positive sense) that only 44.6 % of respondents report experiencing an issue in the three years prior to the study.

It opens with the Conventions history, policy rationales, and processes (at a very high level of generality).