Sentences with phrase «kind of explanation as»

It amazes me that some people here can criticize those Quebec Boards for wanting to leave CREA, and in the same offering acknowledge CREA's shortcomings, but not offer any kind of explanation as to why it serves our interests to remain with CREA.

In the original version of his article, Garland characterized the first kind of explanation as «causal explanation» (366a).

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@ total non sense Perhaps we're splitting hairs here, but I was trying to be kind by implying that rather than treating religiosity as a mental disability, for which the supposedly clinically sick can receive insurance benefits and evade personal actionable responsibility by claiming illness, it would be better to treat religiosity as a societal functional disorder which can be addressed through better education and a perceptional shift towards accepting scientific explanations for how the world works rather than relying on literal interpretations of ancient bronze age mythologies and their many derivations since.

Indeed, we may regard the demand for an explanation as a kind of absurdity or even sacrilege.

During the long period when these narratives were regarded as historically accurate, based, as it was thought, on the memories of the apostles, all kinds of ingenious explanations were offered in an attempt to fit all the stories into one composite and complete picture.

Whitehead, for example, seems to have been in two minds about the viability of the idea of God as «personal», largely because he felt that as commonly used the term was overtly anthropomorphic and did not provide adequate explanation of that kind of experience which stresses the sheer «given - ness» of process.

Neuhaus finds as explanation for the approval or near - approval of all three proposals, this kind of ecumenical negotiation requires each church not only to discern the convergences noted above, but also to honor the divergences: to admonish the other about the validity of its own «accent» or «emphasis,» and to open its own ears to the same kind of admonition.

The perception of time remains subject indeed to the first - mentioned, most obvious kind of explanation to the extent either that one is dealing with limited, unknown aspects of it, or that one loses one's feel for time, so that its perception can no longer rank as what is best known.

Just as with color perceptions, time also seems to belong to those objects which constitute a kind of limiting case in the domain of possible explanations.

Whereas in Schleiermacher and Dilthey «interpretation» means Verstehen understood as a kind of empathy with the writer, Ricoeur is in search of a theory of interpretation in which «understanding» seeks help in objective «explanation» and returns deepened and enlarged.

Whatever else might be the explanation of the mystery, it was not to be found in blaming a prince of darkness, a kind of second deity and god of evil, as though by thrusting back the problem to such a personage the problem itself could be even a little solved.

Many processes which we now regard as quite natural and logical were mysteries to medieval man and consequently offered a ready seedbed for all kinds of explanations which depended upon intervention by some supernatural force.

Now that kind of thinking about God which looks for evidence of His activity in phenomena which have no natural explanation is often referred to as a belief in the «God of the gaps».

What in an older kind of philosophy would have been called the chain - of - cause - and - effect is here seen as being very much richer; it is a congeries of occasions, events, pressures, movements, routes, which come to focus at this or that point, and which for their explanation require some principle that has brought and still is bringing each of them, rather than some other possible occurrence, into this particular concrete moment of what we commonly style «existence».

Using these as an explanation would only risk doing what John Dewey urged us to renounce — the kind of pseudo-explanation that «only abstracts some aspect of the existing course of events in order to reduplicate it as a petrified eternal principle by which to explain the very changes of which it is the formalization» (4:11).

The Deists characteristically claimed Jesus as an example of rational humanity and understood the gospels as historical, availing themselves of all kinds of rationalistic explanations of the various phenomena, such as apparent miracle, in them.

Ernesto Valverde was quizzed about Yerry Mina during his pre-match press conference ahead of the Celta game and kind of gave an explanation as to why he's not played.

I have done a fair bit of online research to find satisfactory explanations as to what benefit headstand might offer the average yoga practitioner, and have found some valuable information, but nothing that gave me the kind of «why» I would want / need to offer a student.

Once the covetous pair realize the true explanation, they turn on Mary and insist that she reveal where she found the Witch's Flower, sparking a big finale in which they kidnap Peter and attempt to transform him into the kind of malevolent shape - shifter so often encountered in the third act of anime films (such as «Akira's» all - consuming atomic mass).

Raunchy frat comedies are as hard to pull off as any other kind because they have to keep surprising the audience, and «The Hangover» does with a bizarre series of uproarious situations with explanations that just about stay within the bounds of plausibility.

As the title suggests, this is a humanity - in - peril yarn, and Kane's expedition was an attempt to find some kind of explanation for «The Shimmer», a sort of hungry force field steadily expanding outwards to devour and transform chunks of the planet.

So it takes on both native gifts and unmodifiable cultural background as explanations of differential educational achievement and the kinds of success in life that higher education makes possible.

Consequently, you must not declare a test as negative based on an explanation of this kind.

A good part of the explanation of the decline of fertility since 1960 can be viewed as a kind of demographic backlash to the baby boom.

The plot serves as an adequate explanation of why the shoot»em up (or shmups) exists; most shmups in the market nowadays do not even have some kind of plot tied into them.

After returning to the title screen with our tails between our legs, we began searching in earnest for some kind of tutorial, and eventually found them, although they were simply text - based and offered just a single image as an explanation, with no guidance videos or training mode.

Maybe not in the same way as it was to the painter, but meaningful in some shared human way... I'm simply trying to get back to a kind of painting that doesn't need a written explanation — that doesn't need a statement on the wall next to it.

The elements that compose the stage set serve as a kind of parallel and three - dimensional explanation of Scheibitz's formal vocabulary, showing how the artist arranges and rearranges his compositions.

In responding to Donald Judd who made «specific objects,» Le Va provides the viewer with «non-specific situations,» inviting us to complete the work of art through bodily interaction with materials and our sense of perception: «What I want [viewers] to do is place themselves in the work, and search out some kind of meaning that fits the object, as opposed to immediately seeing something and applying some readymade explanation... I want the work to set up a dialogue.

This may sound farfetched to those of us who are following the climate change negotiations and have had access to news about weather patterns changing as is reported in the latest IPCC report (hyperlink) but it is these kind of explanations that our communities are using to explain the changing weather patterns and how their hope lies in a far - off stone falling back to its original position.

As to what it actually means, well my answer is not much because these kind of short term variations are expected to occur and we have a good enough explanation for a large part of what has happened in recent years.

But Stefan's explanation for The Pause should also raise other kinds of additional questions, such as:

He appears to conclude that some — if not all — weather events are somehow affected by human activity, but then offers no clear explanation as to how he arrives at this kind of conclusion.

In general, Mason and Seng, along with the other contributors to this book, do an excellent job of explaining both kinds of technicalities - and as readers who are much more familiar with the law than the technology, we particularly appreciate their explanation of the latter.

Xbox head Phil Spencer took offense in Ryan's explanation saying that that kind of dialogue is unhealthy for the video game industry as a whole.

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With regard to future research, more research is needed that specifies the conditions under which children with chronic illnesses show elevated levels of psychological distress and that provides empirically supported explanations as to why some kinds of illness seem not to cause elevated levels of depressive symptoms.

I shared with her, as I've written before, that I strongly believe that these kinds of character assessments can be useful for self - assessment purposes, with the clear explanation that they might or might not be accurate.

(«Evidence indicating that early, extensive, and continuous nonmaternal care is associated with less harmonious parent - child relations and elevated levels of aggression and noncompliance suggests that concerns raised about early and extensive child care 15 years ago remain valid and that alternative explanations of Belsky's originally controversial conclusion do not account for seemingly adverse effects of routine nonmaternal care that continue to be reported in the literature... No longer is it tenable for developmental scholars and child - care advocates to deride the notion that early and extensive nonmaternal care of the kind available in most communities poses risks for young children and perhaps the larger society as well.

Fact: «Evidence indicating that early, extensive, and continuous nonmaternal care is associated with less harmonious parent - child relations and elevated levels of aggression and noncompliance suggests that concerns raised about early and extensive child care 15 years ago remain valid and that alternative explanations of Belsky's originally controversial conclusion do not account for seemingly adverse effects of routine nonmaternal care that continue to be reported in the literature... No longer is it tenable for developmental scholars and child - care advocates to deride the notion that early and extensive nonmaternal care of the kind available in most communities poses risks for young children and perhaps the larger society as well.

The loan payment is definitely left out of my cap rate calculation, as it follows your explanation of why it shouldn't be included in that kind of number.