Sentences with phrase «irreducible fact»

«And it follows that since people are so similar during worship, whatever the liturgy or tradition, that worship itself is a great common... if not bond, then irreducible fact.

This unwillingness is based primarily upon what he considers to be an undeniable and irreducible fact of human self - intuition: when one is directly aware of himself in a specific moment, he is aware of «himself» as a single unit of action and not of any system of cells.

Not exact matches

To understand why Behe's argument is so uncontested in the realm of fact, and yet why so many scientists find the concept of irreducible complexity not only difficult to accept but even impossible to consider, we should start by summarizing the modern understanding of Darwinism, as set out by Richard Dawkins.

In short, the irreducible complexity of molecular systems is controversial among molecular biologists when it is presented as an idea with philosophical consequences, and tacitly accepted as reality when it remains in the world of innocent fact.

The controversy will not be over the facts but over whether Behe has gone «outside of science» by attributing irreducible complexity in biology to «design» rather than to some undiscovered material (i.e., mindless) mechanism.

Julian Carron writes, «In the fact that he is irreducible lies our hope; it angers us, but it is the source of our hope.»

The unique aspect of experience is a measure of the concreteness of God for us, and is «irreducible, incomparable, incommensurable to any parameter of understanding»; it is, as Eastern and Western faith traditions all acknowledge, a manifestation of the fact that «religious truth is existential and non-objectifiable.»

In fact, all complexity, whether designed or not, whether irreducible or not, must first emerge out of a prior environment of order.

Others still, forced to acknowledge what is undoubtedly the fact, that the Gospels, every one of them and in every part of each, bear some trace of the community's response to and understanding of Jesus, seek rather feverishly to recover an irreducible minimum of objective historical fact by methods of literary and historical criticism applied with varying degrees of expertness.

you don't understand the scientific process, you're ignorant of a plethora of sound, reasonable, very well substantiated facts that negate the concept of irreducible complexity.

But what is most absurd to the Western mind would appear to be most natural and spontaneous to the Buddhist mind, for here brute or irreducible «fact» is identified with salvation.

namely, that immediate experience («givenness») is a «unique, irreducible, brute fact.»

But instead of seeing there the expression of its suprarational character, irreducible to this rational proposition, that is to say, the appearance of a fact truly revealed, he sees there only the expression of an imperfect construction, which will demand further reductions and which has none but a pragmatic value.

It's that irreducible uncertainty — the fact that the job applicant just doesn't know if he's got the job until the call comes through, and there's nothing he can do about it — that really gets to us.

Honda takes a structural approach to the irreducible physical facts of film.

On view in the small first floor gallery of the Whitney Museum and serving as a brief but illuminating preface to Cotton Puffs, Q - Tips, Smoke and Mirrors: The Drawings of Ed Ruscha upstairs, Ruscha's photographs, which he typically assembles into carefully designed books, are concerned with the irreducible, deadpan fact.

I don't just mean resilience after the fact, but finding ways to incorporate this concept into how we plan, invest and behave, particularly because some of the biggest hard knocks we face are obscured by largely irreducible complexity and uncertainty.

This omnipresent fact of science is called irreducible uncertainty, because it can never be entirely eliminated.