Sentences with phrase «kinds of explanations for»

Not that kids can get away with hitting each other, but when adults understand different kinds of explanations for a child's behavior, then there are many more ways to intervene, to help a child feel calm in the body.

This means that when he tried to understand what he saw, and give some kind of explanation for the life and movement he witnessed, it did not occur to him to look for an abstract principle or a natural law.

In fact, the subject is usually foregrounded, because in New York City politics it is important to have some kind of explanation for how you pay the rent, before other people reach their own conclusions.

Indeed, in Raft to the Future I described a possible new kind of explanation for the origin of time that my friend Lee Smolin and I have been considering.)

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.

Others also argue that citizens do not currently owe the state of Florida any kind of explanation for why they want to buy or sell bitcoin.

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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.

Unable to deal with that you need some kind of explanation, so you've decided there is an all - powerful, all - knowing sentient being you call God who is responsible for, well, pretty much anything you can't explain with more verifiable causes.

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

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.

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.

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.

That it offers a plausible explanation of the two features of the teaching is obvious; and yet it falls short of being altogether convincing, chiefly because the manner of much of Jesus» most characteristic teaching is at the opposite pole from what one would expect to be the manner of a prophet giving a kind of desperate counsel for a moment of crisis.

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.

If i did nt know what nuclear fission was and had no explanation for it, i could come up with all kinds of excuses to prove to other ignorant people why that mushroom cloud over their was GOD.

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

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».

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».

In accounting for the absolute character of scientific knowledge, hasn't be eliminated the need for any other kind of explanation?

most of the religious creationism beliefs exist simply because man - kind, by default, doesn't accept the fact that they will never have an explanation for something.

Thank you so much for your kind words and explanation of Classic Galactosemia.

However, given that kosher certification is essentially a risk management business, most kosher certifiers are averse to these kinds of situations unless there is a solid explanation for the violations with the prior agency or clear changes that have been made in ownership or management.

Please see our complete explanation for the different kinds of coconut oil and how they are produced here.

I wonder if this may be part of the explanation for the more serious social and psychological problems of various kinds the modern world seems to be saddled with.

She gave some kind of cockamamie explanation about CVS mailing out the letters FOR drug companies (for a price, I'm sure) or something equally oFOR drug companies (for a price, I'm sure) or something equally ofor a price, I'm sure) or something equally odd.

Perhaps it was a foolish curiosity about the plutocracy that tempted him on board the Queen K. Those are kinder explanations than the suggestion that he could have his head turned by the whiff of 50 grand for party funds, a trivial sum to the Tories and just a tank or two of fuel for his billionaire host's boat.

They have gone from one doctor to the next, had all kinds of tests done on their children looking for an explanation,» Reis says.

«Part of the reluctance for everyone to leap off this bridge into the unknown is we haven't had any kind of feasible explanation,» Cuzzi says.

«But for the kinds of questions that measure conceptual understanding, even if the teacher knew the scientific explanation, that wasn't enough to guarantee that their students would actually learn the science.»

Now, scientists are converging on an explanation, at least for a fraction of the ALS cases caused by a mutation also associated with a kind of dementia.

I wrote to the author of the study, Christine Yager, associate transportation researcher at Texas A&M Transportation Institute, who was kind enough to reply: «I don't have a data - driven explanation for why that may have been the result but, anecdotally, many subjects said something to the effect of, «If I were using this in real life, I would check to make sure it's accurate before sending.»

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.

Thank you so much for your kind words and explanation of Classic Galactosemia.

«The only reason we'd go back and do, like, a super classic kind of product is if a whole bunch of people just internally at Valve said they wanted to do it and had a reasonable explanation for why [they did],» said Newell.

I found in it something of an explanation for, or at least a corollary to, the picture's title, in that the demon in The Right Stuff refers to the sound barrier while the demon in Refn's film refers to, perhaps, soft obstructions of other kinds.

The cat - and - mouse game the two have played over the course of the film has ended with casualties on both sides, and the lawman has come looking for an explanation, for accountability, for some kind of closure.

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).

That idea was finally broached with Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers 4 directors Joe and Anthony Russo, who like that kind of «technique,» but hinted that there may be another explanation for these scenes.

My best explanation for this is that the film ultimately found itself betwixt and between: too big to be the kind of arty film that critics love to champion, but not big enough (its domestic box office was almost exactly $ 100 million) to force its way into the conversation, à la Avatar, in a «the people have spoken» fashion.

But if you're looking for some kind of explanation of the themes, symbolism, or subtext of Prince of Darkness, you're not going to get it from Carpenter — and especially not if Jason is in the same room with him.

Strategies for teaching math and home, and explanations of the kinds of math being taught in schools today.

I'll interject here with an explanation for non-writers, but don't worry, I'll make it short and sweet (kind of like a < insert the s - word here >).

No matter what the explanation for The Great Muting, Jeff, I'd be grateful for your personal pledge that text to speech will be a feature of all future Kindles, including the basic models (apparently audio of any kind was also missing from the bottom - of - the - line Kindle introduced last year, and is still AWOL from the $ 69 successor).

Just glowing remarks, a lot of praise without explanation, a lot of reviews for a newly published book with a high sales rank... these kinds of things are like putting a neon sign on your product page: What's funny about this picture?

Scope creep is the primary culprit for these kinds of contracts, so make sure you put together iron - clad explanations of what is and is not covered by...

They are willing to accept all kinds of explanations unlike banks who often reject loan requests bases on reasons given for needing them.

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?).