Sentences with phrase «grasp this thing by»

Let me begin by taking up the pedagogical concern, the larger and the perhaps easier handle to grasp this thing by.

Not exact matches

The prospect of discerning an essence of experience in the bewildering mass of disparate things termed experience seems dismayingly remote by contrast with the direct access to the essence of experience which an intuitive and immediate grasp of one's experience would seem to offer.

The physical laws themselves as grasped by us, e.g. Newton's Laws of Motion, are not material things, but intelligent and useful descriptions of what we have observed of the physical world.

If you fail to give corrective admonition motivated by love, then not only will those in your charge remain uncorrected — you will therefore have failed in your duty to them — but things may drift into a worse state and you will fail even to grasp what has gone awry.

By realism I mean two things: first, seeing the facts as they are and grasping them thoroughly, without evasion or illusion, without recoiling in fear or horror as it becomes evident what the result of some trend is likely to be.

For Heidegger, Being is the ultimate reality, though not itself a thing or substance which can be grasped with certainty by the mind or relied upon as a metaphysical ground.

In this way the ontological argument, by drawing out the presupposition of metaphysical understanding, indicates that the choice before us is between holding that there is a God and that «reality» makes sense in some metaphysical manner, whether or not we can ever grasp what that sense is, and holding that there is no God and that any apparent metaphysical understanding of reality can only be an illusion which does not significantly correspond to the ultimate nature of things — unless this «nihilism» be regarded as a kind of metaphysical understanding instead of its blank negation.

The famous verse (24:18) of Nagarjuna cited by Odin (p. 67) shows the identity of relational origination and emptiness, but it goes further to assert that emptiness is also identified with the middle way in virtue of the conceptual nature of grasping at the relational structure of things (prajnaptir unpadaya).

Obviously that thing Jesus said about loving God and neighbor was added by some nutcase who didn't have a firm grasp on reality.

When Paul says that the «soulish» man can not receive the things of the Spirit of God, he is simply saying that the soul of a person, by itself, with only imagination, memory, reason, and emotions to guide it, can not grasp spiritual truth.

Where I would previously have been inclined to agree with Whitehead's characterization of Bergson that the intellect cart only grasp by spatializing, I now think (and have argued above) that I had failed to recognize fully the implications of the claim I had argued for in 1993 — that if there can be no intuition without intellect, and if intuition can grasp intelligible things without spatializing, then there is a sense in which the intellect, insofar as it is manifest in intuitive operations of consciousness, can grasp experience without spatializing it.

But the deep things must concern us always, because it matters infinitely whether we are grasped by them or not.

Even William James, who thought that our thoughts are explained by brain processes, said that no material thing can grasp itself, as the mind does when it thinks of itself.

God's natural order can still be grasped at by the common sense of men of good will, but the full truth and meaning of creation, the separation of the sexes and of human nature, will only ever be in part and obscurely viewed when the determined and determining purpose of the mind of God is recognised in creation, holding all things relative to Himself — and to His plan to enter creation as its Lord and King.

The grasping caused by fear of death therefore results in a constricted and restricted view of things which obscures the heights and depths of possibility inherent in existence.

This is quite as clear to the knight of faith, so the only thing that can save him is the absurd, and this he grasps by faith.

So Jesus is that One in whom the deepest and highest reality, divine Love, which is the mystery behind all things and the meaning of all things, is made decisively visible and tangible in a manhood that is our own and in terms that we can understand and grasp, and by which we can be grasped and thus directed on the path of right and true human development.

We can never look directly at them, for they are bodiless and featureless and footless, but we grasp all other things by their means, and in handling the real world we should be stricken with helplessness in just so far forth as we might lose these mental objects, these adjectives and adverbs and predicates and heads of classification and conception.

Suppose we said that a person appreciates a distant thing by grasping its vibratory character, its rhythms and the connections of its rhythms with the surrounding environment and across intervening distance.

When a great man grasps another thing as part of his body, he does so by appreciating its principle; as we shall see Wang also argued, the principles of all things are identical with the principle to be found in one's own mind.

That mankind has in this sense been cowardly has done life endless harm; the experiences that are called «vision,» the whole so - called «spirit - world,» death, all those things that are so closely akin to us, have by daily parrying been so crowded out of life that the senses with which we could have grasped them are atrophied.

The creator so made us that only one thing would oblige us to bend our knee: the evidence grasped by our own minds.

The effort to characterize construals of the Christian thing in the particular cultural and social locations that make them concrete will involve several disciplines: (a) those of the intellectual historian and textual critic (to grasp what the congregation says it is responding to in its worship and why); and (b) those of the cultural anthropologist and the ethnographer [3] and certain kinds of philosophical work [4](to grasp how the congregation shapes its social space by its uses of scripture, by its uses of traditions of worship and patterns of education and mutual nurture, and by the «logic «of its discourse); and (c) those of the sociologist and social historian (to grasp how the congregation's location in its host society and culture helps shape concretely its distinctive construal of the Christian thing).

By 4 months babies are able to grasp and hold large objects such as blocks, but they are still not able to grasp small things such as peas.

By 18 months, your baby will be able to put the objects she has grasped into other things.

By this time babies are still not able to grasp things accurately.

By now I have a clear grasp on the importance of what Montessori does for children ages 3 - 6, by creating an environment for them to be successful at the things they are capable of doing themselveBy now I have a clear grasp on the importance of what Montessori does for children ages 3 - 6, by creating an environment for them to be successful at the things they are capable of doing themselveby creating an environment for them to be successful at the things they are capable of doing themselves.

Kids love putting things in and out and I have seen some toddlers spend 20 minutes entertaining themselves by dropping Cheerios or Puffs into a bottle and then dumping them out again, all the while working on their fine motor skills of a neat pincer grasp and wrist rotation (dumping).

Already sitting up straight by himself, sleeping through the night, grasping and holding things, and has been holding his neck for over a month now.

He should be grasping by 2 months, and reaching for a toy by 3 months - and should I feel like a bad mom if my LO isn't doing those things??? I'm constantly wondering «HOW» do I show him, or teach him.

This can be achieved by helping your child with certain play patterns such as grasping small objects, pouring water out of cups, squeezing things like sponges, and doing other activities that force a child to use their hands in creative ways.

Babies start playing by the end of this time and also become able to grasp things like your finger, cloth and other items.

Let's hope they do that because even if someone doesn't know about this, the idea that you can have a healthier, smarter baby, and even healthier and smarter grandkids by doing a few things now, you don't necessarily have to fully grasp, or even want to grasp the concept of epigenetic.

By treating every performance as an experiment while still conveying a sense of fun, Brando grasped multiple meanings in the line,» The play's the thing.»

By default, certain items are set to auto - craft until you have a maximum number of them, but I find it's easier to grasp what you have and what you need if you just craft things up yourself.

You control a snake named Noodle and you traverse each level in serpentine fashion, by which I mean, you control Noodle by rocking the analogue stick back and forth to slither and grasp the trigger buttons to tightly coil Noodle around things.

Marcel Duchamp and the Forestay Waterfall: I Want to Grasp Things with the Mind the Way the Penis is Grasped by the Vagina, davel 14, Cully, Switzerland [catalogue]

A problem solver by his own admission, Lewis works for years on a drawing attempting to grasp the detail - «the little things» - while holding on to the surface of the drawing.

The hypothesis is that these aerosols reflect sunlight back to space and cool the earth (by the way, the blue line above in the IPCC report is explicitly only non-anthropogenic effects, so at the time it went down due to natural effects — the manmade aerosol thing is a newer straw to grasp).

Thing is, I didn't grasp that the BBC news etc. was an RSS feed, and that by using the «create a section» link on the sidebar click on image to enlarge that appears when you click customize you can set it to read any RSS feed you can find with a search.

By way of background, the whole thing started when The Washington Post reported that the judge overseeing the case was «' astonished» at Rakofsky's performance and his «not having a good grasp of legal procedures.»

Jonah Lehrer was rewarded for making complicated ideas seem simple and appealing, for making people feel smarter than they are by making things like neuroscience and the works of Proust seem easier to grasp than they are.