Sentences with phrase «into arbitrary distinctions»

Not only does this interpretation run into arbitrary distinctions — what to do with halal and kosher meat, green electricity, or products with high animal welfare standards — it also seems counterintuitive.

Not exact matches

People are forced by social arrangements and expectations based on prejudice into situations that make the intrinsically irrational and arbitrary racial distinctions to some degree justified.

His contention is that Whitehead's move from Trend I, the delineation of types of existence, to Trend II, in which Whitehead has assigned some order of «priority» among the types, is incoherent, that it involves the arbitrary introduction of some other principle not required by, and indeed inconsistent with, that upon which the distinction into types is made.

Thus Cyril C. Richardson has criticized the classical formulations of the Trinity as imposing an arbitrary «threeness» upon our theological thinking, and proposes instead a basic twofold distinction between God as Absolute and God as Related.1 This is for Richardson a basic paradox, an apparent self - contradiction, for if we try to bring these aspects into relationship, we compromise God's absoluteness.2 Charles Hartshorne accepts this same twofold distinction, but he removes the contradictory element by understanding it in terms of the abstract and concrete dimensions of God's nature and experience.3

Practical computer systems divide software into three major classes: system software, programming software and application software, although the distinction is arbitrary, and often blurred.

But most importantly, it just seems like an arbitrary distinction that does not sufficiently take into account human biology.

If there are arbitrary distinctions about ceramic art as less than serious, these theoretical snares do not extend into this gallery space.