Sentences with phrase «irreducible things»

I always identified myself as a draftsman, and that's the biggest output I have — it's the most irreducible thing in my project.»

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First, Grisez - Finnis describe some basic human goods, the irreducible categories of things for which it is rational to strive.

By Trapani's account, Maritain was able to show how art and poetry bring together two infinities: the irreducible complexity of human personality («the Self») with the superabundant mystery of being («the Things»).

That, in turn, will allow us to show how theological schooling can be a unified course of study that is nonetheless adequate to the irreducible pluralism of ways in which the Christian thing is actually construed.

Seriousness of purpose; the need for measure, endurance, foresight, and self - control; life's irreducible complexity and the hard choices that entails are all things our universities, and those within them who call themselves humanists, should be trying to convey.

Each thing and being has a twofold nature: the passive, appropriable, comparable, and dissectible and the active, unappropriable, incomparable, and irreducible.

There is a metaphysically irreducible contrast in human experience if it is always a compromise between pure order and chaos, between normativeness and the unmeasured, between unifying structure and the plurality of things to be unified.

Far from naming the essence that makes theological schools basically all the same thing despite apparent differences, «theology» indicates one range of factors that accounts for the irreducible differences among theological schools.

Stackhouse's entire argument seems to require the view that adequacy both to the ideal unity of the «Christian thing» and to the reality of pluralism requires that one be a «realist» of some sort.8 It also seems to require rejection of the «nominalist» view that pluralism is finally irreducible.

[To date, there are an increasing number of scientists who have long since departed from that scientific philosophy — and are seeking another more adequate explanation for the lack of transitional life forms in the fossil record or the increasing irreducible complexity of living things at the cellular level which appear to be by design rather than random modification.]

Asking yourself just what are the core engagements of a genre can often lead to conflicts in and of itself; you may find some things to be irreducible in their base form.

On the second page, responding to MPA's image Mars, Harney and Moten write:» maybe the cool thing about this picture, maybe about pictures in general, is that if you linger your vision doubles, interacting with irreducible blur that's already there anyway in a way that solicits certain assumptions regarding (the relation between) ontology and representation.»

As such, Levine's appropriation reminds us that copying — whatever that might mean — need not level everything into equivalence, but rather insists on both the irreducible difference and continuity of things.

Likewise, the current and / or irreducible uncertainty regarding paleoclimate reconstructions using treerings, including things like comparing individual years to previous centuries, means we can be pretty certain that it is NOT possible to say 1998 was the warmest year in a millenium, as one famous scientist is wont to do.

Someday it will be zero as we learn to recycle all the things that end up in scrap, having first reduced them to that irreducible minimum.

Some things are computationally irreducible.