Sentences with phrase «irreducible element»
«To try to grasp the essence of such a phenomenon by means of physiology, psychology, sociology, economics, linguistics, art or any other study is false; it misses the one unique and irreducible element in it — the element of the sacred.»
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For Aristotle, the family is what Reilly nicely calls the «primary and irreducible element of society.»
That is the irreducible element: «the incomprehensibility of a union between [the good principle] and man's sensible nature» in the moral constitution of man (p. 77).
«To try to grasp the essence of such phenomenon by means of physiology, psychology, sociology, economics, linguistics, art or any other study is false; it misses the one unique and irreducible element in it - the element of the sacred».
History is indeed a moral order, in which judgements of the living God take effect; but this view can not be fully verified upon the plane of history as we know it, since there is an irreducible element of tragedy in human affairs.
Not exact matches
It is the religious element as something irreducible from the rational that is reduced to the rational — reduced, that is to say, in this case eliminated.
«Geometric Primitives» is also a term used in computer graphics to refer to the smallest and irreducible geometric elements that the system can handle.