Sentences with phrase «human limitations on»

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«An amazing investigation into the world of competitive memorization that turns into an in - depth study on the capacity, and limitations, of the human mind.

Like many quants, they understand the limitations of the human brain, which has led them on their search for evidence - based investing.

Alternatively, the Prime Minister's Office has tried to assert a statute of limitations on the human memory.

If you believe that Christian doctrine is essentially an attempt to capture dimensions of human experience that defy precise expression in language because of personal and cultural limitations, then the truth about God, the human condition, salvation, and the like can never be adequately posited once and for all; on the contrary, the church must express ever and anew its experience of the divine as mediated through Jesus Christ.

That is, while Griffin acknowledges that Plantinga affirms limitations on God's power in relation to possible worlds containing free human beings, he believes Plantinga to hold «that an actual world devoid of beings with some power of self - determination would be possible» and thus that God could have created a world containing no evil simply by creating a world containing no self - determined beings (GPE 271).

Again, the unspoken assumption is that what is important in the differences between religions has nothing to do with how close their theological descriptions of God correspond to reality, either because those differences don't exist or because they are impossible for us to judge, differences too subtle to be detected by us, lost in the «noise» of our human limitations, personal history, genetics, and so on.

The reason for doing this is because humans as they stand now are not capable of laying eyes on the Nines true astral forms due to the limitations of the collective whole your race has put into place that you know as your reality.

Leading thinkers have recently placed emphasis on the radical limitations of science and especially upon the inherent impossibility of applying scientific techniques to the true understanding and effective control of human beings both individually and socially.

Atheists claim that, given the inherent limitations on human knowledge, there is no evidence supporting the existence of a god, and therefore we reject the claim that there is one.

Robert Heilbroner's An Inquiry into the Human Prospect (Norton, 1974) is representative of a certain somber mood that emerges when people reflect on the chances for our culture to overcome its myriad difficulties of population growth, of natural resource and environmental limitations, and of what Heilbroner refers to as the perplexing inability of our civilization to satisfy the human spHuman Prospect (Norton, 1974) is representative of a certain somber mood that emerges when people reflect on the chances for our culture to overcome its myriad difficulties of population growth, of natural resource and environmental limitations, and of what Heilbroner refers to as the perplexing inability of our civilization to satisfy the human sphuman spirit.

Rather than consider that Paul's writings on women might have been culturally (mis) interpreted for centuries, Mollenkott instead concludes that some of Paul's arguments reflect his «rabbinical training and human limitations.

On this question a third theme in Bohr's writing is more illuminating, namely his discussion of conceptual limitations in human understanding.

From the vantage point of Humanity 3.5, the insistence on faster solutions to human limitations seems a lot like an inability to come to a mature reckoning with finitude and death.

Through the incarnation, Jesus willingly takes on human form and limitations, freely embracing humanity in body, mind and spirit.

It is based not on specific wishes but rather «on the unspecific over-all wish that there be in general no natural necessity, no limitations, no opposition to the human being and to human wishes; it is based on the wish that everything be only for men and nothing against men.»

His evaluation of politics is shaped by the conviction that Christianity has understood human possibilities and limitations better than its Marxist and liberal competitors, so that the prospects for the future depend greatly on recovering Christian insights, understanding them and using them to shape our political expectations.

It is marked on its negative side by the rejection not only of the symbols of the creation, the fall and the salvation of men, but also of the belief in human dependence and limitation, in human wickedness and frailty, in divine forgiveness through the suffering of the innocent.

On the one hand, if nature is understood as created only to serve human beings, then it may justify exploitation of nature without any limitation.

Just as Jesus took on human flesh with all its weaknesses and limitations, so also God, in the Old Testament «incarnated» Himself into the affairs of humanity with all of our weaknesses and limitations.

Still I respect anyone who respects human limitations in understanding God and focuses more on the positive efforts of understanding our similarities and trying to understand or reconcile our differences.

Conventional theories on human rights imply limitations to the understanding of human rights that erode the effective implementation of the very basic claims they enunciate.

«So, as long as the human creature can be persuaded to obey the limitations placed on him by his creator, creation will be in its proper order.

They include critiques of Wesley's and the Wesleyan / Methodist tradition's acceptance of simple foreknowledge (Maddox), basing human freedom on God's self - limitation (Oord), a soteriological understanding of the Trinity (Powell) and homocentrism (Odgen, Stone, Walker, McDaniel, Farthing).

Our faith is based on that which is beyond the scope of the limitations of human understanding and pride - based reasoning.

Aside from its implied dismissal of all the world's many riches outside the sexual domain, this false concept has placed stultifying limitations on the range of human relationships.

To the extent that traditional conceptions of morality require a recognition of some salutary dependence upon nature, or of insuperable limitations on human self - transformation, science must be understood as an outright rejection of them.

A mechanistic sociobiologist argues that individual human limitations imposed by genes place constraints on society.

There is something primal there, but we needn't define it, and setting limitations on gender - based identity discourages the possibilities within our scope of what it means to be human.

Perhaps they are capable of empathising with humans, but there is certainly some limitation on their ability to empathise with animals.

The Senate voted 30 - 29 against allowing Sen. Brad Hoylman, D - Manhattan, to add controversial provisions eliminating the statute of limitations on child sexual abuse to an unrelated bill that requires hospital emergency rooms and other sites to hang posters about a human trafficking resource center hotline.

First, teachers can focus on differences between standard human eyes and Hawkeye's eyes to explain the function of the human eye and highlight limitations.

Aging research may be on the rise, but it does have its own set of unique limitations in terms of how quickly discoveries in the lab turn into human clinical trials.

The findings, reported in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on August 4, are a reminder for us humans to look beyond our own limitations and recognize that other species may communicate in ways that we can't, the researchers say.

Jeffrey Kidd, Ph.D., an Assistant Professor of Human Genetics and Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics who worked on the new study, notes that only recently has it become possible to sequence Y chromosomes, because of technical limitations of previous approaches.

This means that chimps have greater limitations on the ways in which their brains can develop and on their capacity to learn new behaviors or skills compared with humans.

This approach also has limitations as it impedes comparisons with findings in other studies and other species, which is essential if you want to use research on chimpanzees to better understand the evolution of human personality traits.»

In an effort to overcome these limitations, a team at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering led by its Founding Director, Donald Ingber, M.D., Ph.D., had previously engineered a microfluidic «Organ - on - a-Chip» (Organ Chip) culture device in which cells from a human intestinal cell line originally isolated from a tumor were cultured in one of two parallel running channels, separated by a porous matrix - coated membrane from human blood vessel - derived endothelial cells in the adjacent channel.

Near the end of the article on human evolution, the author suggests that the primary limitation on human brain size is female hip structure.

The researchers acknowledge that using brain scans to study human cognition has its limitations because it relies on certain assumptions about the links between brain regions and their functions.

The authors should be more circumspect in reporting their results, acknowledging that the stature estimates from modern humans are likely exaggerations, and focus their interpretations on the more appropriate (but still tenuous) australopithecine - based predictions — still with the caveat about the limitations of the data from which the predictor is derived.

For four decades, the inability of nonhuman primates to produce human speech sounds has been claimed to stem from limitations in their vocal tract anatomy, a conclusion based on plaster casts made from the vocal tract of a monkey cadaver.

As Greg Petsko points out in his essay on the future of crystallography (see page 42), most experimental science is an attempt to overcome the limitations of the human eye.

Organ - on - a-chip technology may in part overcome this limitation, as exemplified by the «breathing» lung - on - a-chip that recapitulates the alveolar - capillary interface by co-culturing human alveolar epithelial cells and capillary endothelial cells on opposite sides of a flexible, porous, ECM - coated membrane.

But linking HAR mutations to organismal innovations is hard, given the obvious limitations on testing the effects of genetic changes in humans or apes.

Obama has chosen to fund abortion overseas, clearly favors funding abortions here, and has reversed the limitations on funding of embryo - destructive stem cell research Given these facts, it is fair to ask: what is his position on the beginning of human life and when human life has or acquires inherent dignity?

The findings, reported in the journal Acta Astronautica on Tuesday (April 10), reveal the limitations of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or ETI: Humans are tied up in their own biases and attentional limitations and might miss alien intelligence even if it's staring us in the face, the researchers said.

After receiving his bachelor's degree in exercise science, Mitch went on to receive his Doctorate in physical therapy to better understand the human movement system and help others recover from the injuries & limitations hindering their performance.

Along the way, Anderson through the persona of Mick takes on big business, imperialism, the police, the class structure in Britain, Cold War politics and paranoia, scientific irresponsibility, and bourgeois hypocrisy, while also building a sweeping vision of human limitation.

A group of explorers make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.

Where The Rider gives us a protagonist ensnared by his responsibility to a dream — Brady can no more shake the memory of being on horseback than he can abandon his town or his loved ones — The Black Stallion paints a picture of animal kinship as the ultimate escape: from the vagaries of the human world, from one's own tragic backstory, from the limitations of one's youth.