The immediate purpose of research, he suggested, is to increase the sum of human knowledge, to find things never known before.
To cite two texts: In a 1929 article, «Birth Control: The Perverted Faculty Argument», Henry Davis says, ``... the contraceptive act between a husband and wife is mortally sinful, chiefly, it would seem because it is a grave abuse of a faculty, a gross perversion of a means — the act of marital intercourse - which is given by Nature, that is, God, to man for
the immediate purpose of generation».
That question is aside from
the immediate purpose of these lectures.
The decision to look on a given statement as primarily theoretical or primarily observational is relative, pragmatic, and context - dependent, as Mary Hesse contends.7 The emphasis may shift with the advance of science and
the immediate purposes of enquiry.
Not exact matches
The mission the community decides upon must appeal to a higher, long - term sense
of purpose, but for a community to work the collaboration needs to produce
immediate benefits for each set
of constituents.
«And finally, a higher
purpose — the sense that what we do matters and serves something larger than our
immediate self - interest — is a uniquely powerful source
of motivation,» Schwartz and Porath write.
As I've regularly noted in recent months, our
immediate outlook is essentially flat neutral for practical
purposes, though we're partial to a layer
of tail - risk hedges, such as out -
of - the - money index put options, given that a market decline on the order
of even 5 % would almost certainly be sufficient to send our measures
of market internals into a negative condition.
One
of the
immediate benefits
of Monero, for the
purpose of this article, is that, while it has a blockchain similar to those seen in other cryptocurrencies, the destination and source
of funds is not immediately apparent to the public in the same way it is with Bitcoin.
The
purpose of a tax - deferred annuity, unlike an
immediate annuity, is to build funds to create an income stream at a later date.
As I've regularly noted in recent months, our
immediate outlook is essentially flat neutral for practical
purposes, though we're partial to a layer
of tail - risk hedges.
Some persons are more directed by
immediate satisfaction, others live in terms
of a more sustained life -
purpose, a wider future.
There is an active and creative appropriation
of the past and
of the
immediate environment for the
purpose of building the future.
actually there is no free will, because we humans is part
of god, our conciousness is his.therefore everything we do has a
purpose only beyond our
immediate comprehension or understanding.the problem lies in our concept or belief
of the absoluteness
of the philosophy
of science, which by itself is part
of gods evolutionary process, atheists has this mentality, but since they are part
of the process so its gods will through us.
the diversity
of religious faith through out the world through the ages is just part
of gods will, in the evolutionary process
of change it is necessary to have multiple variable inputs to achieved a sucessfull synthesis.since all religions is gods will, the
purpose of such is beyond our comprehension or
immediate understanding but it has a profound meaning and direction
The result always does violence to that
immediate experience which we express in our actions, our hopes, our sympathies, our
purposes, and which we enjoy in spite
of our lack
of phrases for its verbal analysis
It makes no sense because the very primitive actual occasions constitutive
of the piano and
of its
immediate physical environment have a capacity for novel adjustment
of feeling which is virtually nil, which is, for all practical
purposes, nil.
The great pagan trial
of the twentieth century was nationalism» a movement that originally had a Christian messianic
purpose» and it was the most
immediate form
of paganism against which Rosenzweig battled in, for example, his book Hegel and the State.
Luke wrote late enough that the
immediate expectation
of the end had been displaced by reckoning with the long haul
of history and, most significantly for our
purposes, with the long haul
of the Christian life.
Rather than take as his criterion for judgment either the principle
of «factual» accuracy or the principle
of the author's
immediate intention, Fuller proposes that inerrancy must be posited only in terms
of the Bible's «overall
purpose,» I. e., in terms
of the intention
of God who inspired it.
We may recall that Christianity is in the first instance a gospel, a proclamation, in which it is declared that the eternal Reality whom men call God has crowned His endless work
of self - revelation to His human children by a uniquely direct and
immediate action: He has come to us in one
of our own kind, the Man
of Nazareth, uniting to Himself the life which, through His
purpose, was conceived and born
of Mary, and through this life in its wholeness establishing a new relationship to Himself into which the children
of men may enter.
However, most important for our
immediate purposes, the view that there are limitations on both mechanistic and teleological causal explanations
of creative events is expressed in Peirce's own writings.
It entails a multiple nuanced and mirrored and repeated intentionality
of purpose that exercises its corporate influence on the rest
of society, particularly those within its
immediate environs.
In this situation more than a hundred theological schools have agreed to examine themselves and the status
of theological education in general, to raise
immediate and ultimate questions about their
purposes, their methods and their effectiveness in discharging their duties; to seek also ways
of improving their own ministry.
But Matthew is interested in Jesus» origin, not his birth; and the
immediate purpose is the clarification
of the important ambiguity
of verse 16.
For our
immediate purposes, it may be helpful to oversimplify a great deal by reducing to just three broad categories the ideological contenders for the soul
of the American university over the past century and a quarter.
First, the religious point
of view which provides so - called humanitarian goals for the statesman as a direct and
immediate substitute for selfish national
purposes «misconceives the nature
of international relations.»
By mechanical causality I mean that which operates without any
purpose of valuation except
immediate and habitual response to a particular stimulus.
More recently, systematic theologian Donald Bloesch has explained that while «God's ultimate
purposes, are unchangeable... his
immediate will is flexible and open to change through the prayers
of his people.»
Given the fact that innovation, especially in the area
of human affairs, usually brings much
immediate suffering even when its
purpose is to eliminate suffering in the long run, it is easy to understand and even sympathize with the effort to associate God only with cosmic and ethical order.
It's a powerful and
immediate experience
of God that gives meaning and
purpose to their lives.»
In 1971, nonestablishment came to mean that legislation could have no religious «
purposes,» even when the
immediate matter and effect
of the legislation is secular.
As soon as anyone questions what our
purpose is, it has the
immediate and alluring aura
of...
And it proposes that this other dimension is a gracious source
of meaning and
purpose for our lives in the
immediate environment
of nature and history.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the case
of temporary or preliminary injunctive relief, any party may proceed in court without prior arbitration for the
purpose of avoiding
immediate and irreparable harm.
What does the product offer the user beyond its
immediate practical
purpose in terms
of sensual quality, possibilities
of a playful use or emotional attachment?
The 50 - acre lake is already in place, and its main
purpose is as a stormwater detention basin for McDonald Creek, which will provide flood relief to areas
of Prospect Heights, Mt. Prospect and Wheeling as well as its
immediate neighborhood in Arlington Heights.
The
purpose of the Apgar scoring system is to quickly assess aspects
of your baby's overall health at birth and determine whether she needs
immediate medical help.
«If members
of the Port Authority or PAPD participated in any fashion — through
purpose or neglect — the State will deliver
immediate and severe consequences.»
Christensen's implication is, plainly, to keep the long - term goals and
purposes in mind and to be content with devoting some time to those projects, even if the payoff is not
immediate, advice that corresponds well to the idea
of identifying with one's future selves.
From your
immediate point
of view, the
purpose of a research plan is to help get you hired.
But often we look at them completely wrong and think that the only
purpose of diets is
immediate weight loss.
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Can a controlled - release oral dose form
of oxycodone be used as readily as an
immediate - release form for the
purpose of titrating to stable pain control?
This dual -
purpose sequel, which simultaneously serves as a continuation
of First Class and X-Men: The Last Stand, benefits greatly from the character groundwork laid out by its chronologically
immediate predecessor.
His behavior has its
immediate results in terms
of how people relate to him once they see his
purpose.
They set up an
immediate visual tension between the squares like Josh Brolin's Bigfoot (and as an aside, I haven't seen The Judge due to having taste, but there's no way Duvall is more deserving than Brolin for Supporting Actor
purposes) and the hippie community
of Phoenix's Doc Sportello.
In a series
of studies
of over 1,200 youth ages 12 to 26, Damon found that those who were actively pursuing a clear
purpose reaped tremendous benefits that were both
immediate and that could also last a lifetime.
In - depth interviews
of 12
purpose - driven youth from Damon's studies revealed that all
of them came to their
purpose through people outside their
immediate families — people that included their teachers.
Businesses have earning reports and stock prices as measures
of success; schools seeking multiple
purposes — see above — are expected to show
immediate, midterm, and long - term results, many
of whichare hardly reducible to numbers.