Sentences with phrase «immediate point in»

Nagel's immediate point in his article was negative, that while such getting inside is necessary for answering the «What is it like?»

Not exact matches

In a world increasingly dominated by streaming media on mobile devices, new DirecTV subscribers will be offered «immediate access to programming... at the point of sale,» AT&T said, adding that the deal will «offer customers the freedom to watch hit TV shows anytime virtually anywhere, using a TV, computer, tablet or smartphone.»

Many of our friends and neighbors of all socioeconomic classes have not been exposed enough to fundamental financial principles and to that end we invite you to share this guide with others in your immediate circle and wider communities who may benefit from a refresher on these basic finance points.

The opinions formed by employees pointed to their immediate manager as the critical player in building and maintaining a great workplace.

They make an immediate bit of money, but they have only borrowed the stocks, so they need to 1) replace the stock at some point in the future and 2) pay dividends out of their own pockets for the length of borrowing the stock.

The second and third point is irrelevant because it only addressed current debt relative to financial crisis in the immediate future.

«The same study found that a new leader can foster an immediate boost in employee job satisfaction — by 31 percentage points — just by recognizing those who have never received any appreciation from their superiors,» adds Sturt.

I understand that startups normally need capital froman an IPO or need to issue more stocks in order to finance R&D (well, as just about all companies pursue immediate profits not at the cost of the future, the second option is becoming forgettable), but what's the point when the whole world is now run by a few corporate cartels?

Short - term yields have risen by about 15 basis points from their December quarter lows, as the market has again moved to price in a possible monetary tightening, though not in the immediate future.

Research from Vanguard shows that an «immediate» lump - sum amount in a portfolio that includes a 60/40 mix of stocks and bonds outperformed dollar - cost averaging by a margin of 2.4 percentage points on average during a 12 - month period.

In that situation, your breakeven point is immediate because you don't have to put any money down to refinance.

When announcing Krafcik's hiring in September, Google said it had no immediate plans to make self - driving cars a free - standing business unit, but that it was «a good candidate to become one at some point in the future.»

It's to the point with some Christian posters here that any criticism of their actions and religious beliefs garners the immediate judgment that the person doing so is being hateful when, in reality, they are only fulfilling that very same Bible observation made by Jesus.

Even if we grant that a clone, reared in different circumstances than its immediate ancestor, might turn out to be quite a different person in some respects, the point of that person's existence would be grounded in our will and desire.

My point is merely that the analysis required to confirm Ogden's claim — even if the analysis can not fail to do so — itself mediates access to the allegedly primal phenomenon, and thus leaves Ogden with a «phenomenon» which is not epistemically «primal,» and access to which is neither epistemically immediate nor privileged nor error - free in principle.

True though this is, no analysis however acute of immediate causes and immediate reasons for the decline in the prestige of Christianity can be the starting - point of remedy and recovery, if these immediate causes are subordinate in nature, time, and importance to underlying causes the importance of which is minimised or even overlooked.

The one that has received most attention in our time is that stemming from Soren Kierkegaard and issuing in modern existentialism.18 I shall not develop this point beyond suggesting that here, too, concern with the ultimate import of the immediate situation associates ultimacy with immediacy in its concreteness.

Upon careful analysis, at least ten such points become apparent: (1) Blake alone among Christian artists has created a whole mythology; (2) he was the first to discover the final loss of paradise, the first to acknowledge that innocence has been wholly swallowed up by experience; (3) no other Christian artist or seer has so fully directed his vision to history and experience; (4) to this day his is the only Christian vision that has openly or consistently accepted a totally fallen time and space as the paradoxical presence of eternity; (5) he stands alone among Christian artists in identifying the actual passion of sex as the most immediate epiphany of either a demonic or a redemptive «Energy,» just as he is the only Christian visionary who has envisioned the universal role of the female as both a redemptive and a destructive power; (6) his is the only Christian vision of the total kenotic movement of God or the Godhead; (7) he was the first Christian «atheist,» the first to unveil God as Satan; (8) he is the most Christocentric of Christian seers and artists; (9) only Blake has created a Christian vision of the full identity of Jesus with the individual human being (the «minute particular»); and (10) as the sole creator of a post-biblical Christian apocalypse, he has given Christendom its only vision of a total cosmic reversal of history.

19) of the Posterior Analytics, where Aristotle describes how the mind ascends to the first principles on which all science is grounded, he points out that the immediate point of departure of the inductive movement is not mere sense perception, but «experience»: «So from perception there comes memory, as we call it, and from memory (when it occurs often in connection with the same thing), experience; for memories that are many in number form a single experience.

Every present can be viewed in its innocence, but the point of view of innocence is important chiefly because it acknowledges the fact of immediate experience.

Let me remind you that the immediate point has been pathologies in the conception of ministry arising from subtle distortion of the relations among the three elements in the dominant Reformation image of ministry: Bible, pulpit, and preacher.

The citizens of all surrounding towns use them for hunting, protection, and recreation, they hold safety to the highest standard, even accidentally pointing it at someone while picking it up will result in immediate punishment from parents, and they are locked away after use.

Process and Reality, An Essay in Cosmology 345 - 346 and 435 imply clearly that (b) is the alternative Whitehead had in mind, for in each passage he presents a situation where a given occasion, X, inherits from another occasion, Y, in its past, which in turn inherits from Z, which is in its past — the point of each passage is to say that X inherits doubly from Z, both immediately and as mediated by Y. Z is not in the immediate past of X, and yet X is exhibited as prehending Z directly.

The point for us in this context, however, is that the New Testament material as a whole enables us to see that the first Christians, or their immediate successors, did not rest content with affirming that Jesus, in himself, was risen; they went on to say that the activity of God in his self - expression, above all in that self - expression in Jesus, was an abiding reality in the creation.

I am not saying that the way he started to be a Christian — joining the church's fellowship — is necessarily your immediate prescription, but you and he are alike in this regard: you both reached a point in your spiritual growth where something needed to be decisively done.

«After all it's only the purely immediate men — who so far as spirit is concerned are about at the same point as the child in the first period of earliest infancy when with a thoroughly endearing nonchalance it lets everything pass out — it's the purely immediate men who can't retain anything.

This points, not to some transhistorical future hope, but to the immediate future in the life of the concrete historical Jesus.

The point is not that we decide or act blindly, but that we find ourselves claimed by the reality disclosed in a certain set of happenings — perhaps because of its manifest relevance to issues which are of immediate concern to us — before we have begun to grasp all that it means or implies.

At a given moment every human being is definite, and definite in their history up until that point, but until they die their future is at least partly indefinite, even with respect to the immediate future, and perhaps largely indefinite with respect to the distant future.

Concretely, he must never be satisfied to cease asking â $ ˜but why?â $ ™ until he has driven his understanding to the point where he has an immediate, human grasp of what a given position meant, such that every nuance in the data is accounted for and withal, given the total of presuppositions and circumstances, he could feel himself doing the sameâ $ (p. 290).

BTW, one of the first rules in interpretation is looking at the immediate context; and going from that point.

The whole discussion points to Abraham, and him I can still approach by immediate categories — in so far, that is to say, as I am able to understand him.

That there is not only chaos, that in fact extremely complex patterns of order have emerged and sustained themselves over eons, points to the fact that the possibilities are not ordered only in terms of immediate relevance but ordered also so that there are established limits that ensure some correlation among the many decisions that jointly make up the settled world.

Such interventions may prevent immediate consequences such as loss of a job, but the long - range results are usually negative in that they deprive the alcoholic of his right to experience the pain which might bring him to the point of openness to help.

It is to be recalled that the soundness of Whitehead's argument (or of Lewis's commentary on this point) is not the immediate point of interest in this investigation.

The remarkable ethical point about Wang Yang - ming was that in his vigorous and active life he continually kept his immediate practical concerns in contact with his metaphysical tradition concerning value.

Whitehead risks this double crisis in scientific study by presuming from this point on that our experience of reality issues concretely in a flow of «perceptions, sensations, and emotions,» and that we are induced only by the forms of order in our thought to fancy that we have an immediate experience of a «neat, trim, tidy, exact world» (OT 109, 110).

Chris Armstrong makes a similar point, observing that evangelicals» tendency to value the immediate and participate in «youth culture» will be a problem in an age when gravitas and deep transformation are needed.

Purely formal evaluations of the meaning of an event or a person in the immediate historical sequence are of course necessary; but a judgment of value depends upon a point of view which the writer imports into the history and by which he measures the historica1 phenomena.

I had been using a point and shoot for a long time but I traded it in towards this used dSLR, and noticed an immediate improvement!

There's no greater example of the conundrum of modern recruiting than Texas: build up recruits to lure them in, then break them immediately, but only to the point they can become immediate ambassadors of your brand for the next cycle.

Having signed the likes of Ousmane Dembele and Philippe Coutinho in the last two transfer windows, coupled with their success to this point with the current squad so far this year, it would be realistic to suggest that they won't look to make any more big - money signings in the immediate future as they seem very strong already.

I know it's facile to point at the very obvious change and cite that as a cause for concern, but I do think he's trying to find his way in the immediate events following the Bones separation.

The effects were immediate: Hawaii's scoring improved from 19.8 points per game to 28.1 in 1987, then 31.9 and 36.2.

No point in continuing to accommodate these players that want to leave when we have superstars in the making waiting to make an immediate impact.

Moreover in the interests of dismissing potential criticism that this article is, no matter how much I may deny it, merely a backlash from the Swansea defeat, I will finally make the point that the premise of the article was conceived in early January and thus can not be considered an immediate response to Liverpool's abject display at Swansea.

In the short term: This creates an immediate need for 3 point shooting and on the wing.

The Tynesiders are just a point above the relegation zone after losing seven of their past eight games are in danger of an immediate return to the Championship.

The future of James Milner remains a talking point in Manchester with the England international now into the last three months of his contract and no immediate renewal in sight.

Fair play to the UTD fan for having an opinion, I think a lot of people miss the point with Wenger, I know that all football fans want success now, if you look at the teams Arsene has built this is perhaps his third, even forth, and it is still in the making, he knows that they are not yet what they will be and that perhaps we will not get success immediately but if we are patient success will come, I am a realist and know that mortgaging your clubs future for immediate success is wrong and that sooner rather than later these birds will come home to roost.