Sentences with phrase «kind of explanation which»

The reintegration of science, metaphysics and theology lies in the direction of showing that observation gives rise to questions that science answers, but that these themselves raise questions that call for metaphysical responses, and that these in turn point to a different kind of explanation which, though ultimate, is also personal.

*************** «The kind of explanation which explains things away may give us something, though at a heavy cost.

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.

Not exact matches

@ 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.

In general, skepticism about a complete explanation of creativity is based on the notion that a creative act issues in an outcome that is new in kind, which was unpredictable, and which has a definite character that is neither reducible to the sum of its elements nor exhaustively traceable to its antecedents.

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.

This is not because such words are supposed to have some kind of vitalistic tinge which will redeem what we have to say from apparent mechanistic suggestions, but because they are in fact required for any genuine understanding of the world and any sound explanation of how things come to be.

That kind of circular argument even goes back to explanations of the origin of the universe — according to the big bang theory (which I don't really have a problem with in the «big picture»).

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.

For him Whitehead implicitly works with two different kinds of explanation: the «causal» or «ordinary» kind of explanation appealing only, in agreement with the ontological principle, to actual entities, and an «ultimate explanation,» which appeals to the principle of creativity and not to specific actual entities (221).18

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».

All economic and sociological explanations dash themselves in vain against the appearance of this kind of gratuitous act for which there are neither roots nor rational explanations.

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).

You may be misdiagnosed with other issues and you know, maybe then you find out it's a parasite issue but your doctor maybe doesn't wan na test you for parasites which is where somewhere like — someone like you would come along in functional medicine who is more open to kind of thinking out of the box and accepting that, you know, sometimes we need to look beyond the tip of our nose for an explanation and but you know, so the — the information that I share in my post on parasites for example, you know, touches upon different ways of treating them.

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).

The biological explanations are left to Meredith (Jane Levy), Tripp's biology tutor, who ends up helping and has a crush on Tripp (He's the kind of guy who's not smart enough to go for the cute science nerd, which leads to an uncomfortable joke about her not needing to worry about walking home alone).

This is not the first instance in which regulations have required this kind of individual, direct communication by institutions with consumers about Federal aid: Section 454 (a)(2) of the HEA authorizes the Department to require institutions to make disclosures of information about Direct Loans, and Direct Loan regulations require detailed explanations of terms and conditions that apply to borrowing and repaying Direct Loans.

The truth is defined contribution plans and group RRSPs often don't get the credit they deserve (for an explanation of both, see Which kind of plan do you have?).

While the game suggests there is some kind of plot, this is never covered in - game - you simply run through the battles, fight the last boss (which has no explanation), and then whoever gets the last blow on the boss gets a rather story un-related ending consisting of a couple of bits of artwork and text, usually with cameos from various other Capcom / Marvel characters in unusual situations.

The truth is the long (and til now quite useful) explanation of how marketing works via images in the mind and so on is not the kind of theory of behaviour which stacks up very well within any emprical science outside marketing nowadays.

«It is not sufficient in an art of pure composition to appeal to sensation: the work of art must evoke a response at a deeper level, the level we now call unconscious; and «the vibrations of the spirit» that then take place are either personal, in that they effect some kind of mental integration, or perhaps supra - personal in that they assume the archetypal patterns into which mankind projects an explanation of its destiny.»

The back - radiation explanation of the greenhouse effect that people used to prefer until recently is less satisfactory because it has the kinds of problems I pointed out 16 months ago in an article on this blog, which was received at the time with only slightly more enthusiasm than Galileo's heliocentric account of planetary motions: at least no one suggested I be placed under house arrest for it!

Bohm noted of prevailing views among physicists: «the world is assumed to be constituted of a set of separately existent, indivisible and unchangeable «elementary particles», which are the fundamental «building blocks» of the entire universe... there seems to be an unshakable faith among physicists that either such particles, or some other kind yet to be discovered, will eventually make possible a complete and coherent explanation of everything» (Bohm, 1980, p. 173).

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.