"Human concepts" refers to ideas, thoughts, and understanding that are developed by and unique to human beings. It encompasses our knowledge, beliefs, and perceptions about the world around us and how we make sense of it.
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Being atheist or religious is irrelevant to the
very human concepts of power, greed and ignorance.
Information, however it is defined, is a
truly human concept and only part of the universe in that it is in the human mind.
Unlike other supercars, which are beholden to their parent company's budget, the Chiron seems limited only
by human concepts of physics and natural laws.
Some argue that even the most
advanced human concepts are built up from basic building blocks that are shared across species, such as notions of past and future; similarity and difference; and agent and object.
The revelatory permission has been utilized only when the human record and
human concepts failed to supply an adequate thought pattern.
Although I have sought to adjust the verbal expression the better to conform to our concept of the real meaning and the true import of the Master's life and teachings, as far as possible, I have adhered to the
actual human concept and thought pattern in all my narratives.
If God can be known in what we call experiences of transcendence or ultimacy, then of course theology can talk of God, as it can of any
other human concept.
The former extreme leads to intolerance and superstition, or the idolatry of confusing God with a certain book or tradition, or a
certain human concept, the latter leads to atheism, the most rational form of which is precisely the doubt whether any form of God - talk makes sense.
For one thing, the Bible does not claim to be a study in
evolving human concepts; it claims to be revelation, a series of words from God of which human beings could never have conceived on their own.
Amongst the other offbeat characters, unusual situations and bizarre plot points, these two act as the heart of the narrative, making you laugh as they talk about novel
human concepts like shopping, or cry as they struggle against all odds without the other for help.
In the third place, Wieman turned attention away
from human concepts and values to the reality of God as that which is of interest to the religious person.
Stunning discoveries about how babies and children develop can help answer questions about
deeply human concepts such as morality, identity and consciousness, says Alison Gopnik
The years that I spent studying verbs and what they mean involved a leap of intuition that this would be a way of tapping
into human concepts and cognitive framing — in other words, the stuff of thought.
Through this she uses visual allegory to fuse together
hyperphysical human concepts such as emotion, scientific theory, philosophy and mortality with our relationship to those around us, and the tangible environment we occupy.
He drew up a list of 200
basic human concepts (expressed in English words) as part of this glottochronological exercise.
You see, I also do not believe that God is a white bearded old man in a nightshirt... The God (dess) I understand is too huge, too eternally absolute and too immense an ultimate and perfect Love and a complete manifestation of Allness to be limited
by human concepts.
Human concepts of grandeur change — David's cedar house might today be a McMansion of fake stone, with chandeliers, central air and cedar - scented room fresheners — but God's designs endure forever.
Logic is
a human concept, to describe the natural.
-- the Bible being a collection of stories about trying to understanding
the human concept of «God.»
Just like the book itself...
a human concept.
Yes robert brown... these are
all HUMAN concepts... You will find similar passages in many other religions and or human studies.
The first is the silent apophatic dimension, which transcends
any human concepts, which he relates to the Father who expresses himself only through the Son.
Philosophy is great when dealing with abstract,
human concepts (beacuse it's process is based around the human as the standard) but without some way to test philosophical treaties, you are just doing thought experiments which may or may not have any bearing on events in the «real» world.
Whatever truth there may be in the assertion that man makes God in his own image, the affirmation of faith carries with it a clear distinction between the concept of God (which indeed is man - made, just as
all human concepts are man - made) and God himself.
«On the Abstractness of
Human Concepts: Why It Would be Difficult to Talk to a Pigeon.»
But please be aware of the limitations of human language and of
human concepts.
The danger is that in doing this the preacher may suggest that this is but
a human concept.
Also that when Jesus said to call no man Father it was because he knew we'd mess it up with
our human concept of hierarchy — and, in our minds, impose harsh, top - down characteristics on God based on those exhibited by human fathers.
Indeed, it is an unanswerable question because
no human concept or language is ever adequate for divine things.
These are
human concepts.
But the reverent silence of the Buddhists before the «emptiness» of the transcendent, beyond all dialectic of
human concepts, is pregnant with its own beneficence.
The pre-Socratic response to this experience was essentially poetic: not an attempt to devise a hierarchy of categories by which to capture the event in a cage of
human concepts but, rather, an attempt to name the event of being in its mystery, with an almost childlike innocence, in a language of purest immediacy.
But if we assume that reality exists independently of humans, then for a description to be complete, it must also be well - defined according to nonhuman entities — aliens or supercomputers, say — that lack any understanding of
human concepts.
Studying weekly cycles —
a human concept — in metereological variables is a common point of research, since it allows scientists to examine the level of human influence on nature.