Sentences with phrase «knowable by»

This sixth installment of our series covers events occurring throughout 2012 that point to disparities between what was known and knowable by leadership at the Exxon Mobil Corporation, and what the oil giant was communicating to its shareholders regarding the risks to its operations associated with climate change and its impacts.

In the paintings I've been making in the last five years, the «Scenic Abstractions,» the attitude of a shape is indicated by its edges; how well it gets on with its neighbors and its surrounding environment is knowable by the texture of its borders — if it is rough or refined, feathered, blended, or hard - edged.

For the ancient Greeks and Romans, this truth was knowable through reason and logic; for the Christian philosophers it was knowable by faith (although faith and reason were not necessarily contradictory).

Those who have not known this (and this is only knowable by God's grace, his free gift of revealing his love to us), have not known what is mostly deeply human about them.

In short, they are «being» that is therefore knowable by created minds, because they are called into being by the Mind of God, and they are also «not - being» in the sense that they are not God, and therefore not absolute in their individual identity.

Your faith and Sagan's faith are the same in your belief that what is outside today's boundaries or limits of science will someday be knowable by man.

If a person thinks that nature is wholly corrupt, that there is no natural morality knowable by human reason, that grace completely supplants nature, that the basis of morality is the divine command and not the essences of things as created by God — and some Protestant theologians can plausibly be read as having said such things — then all bets are off.

Not exact matches

Good intentions for proximate and ultimate ends can be poisoned by knowable bad consequences, even when they are not intended.

Real ideas (by which I think he also meant realistic) contained at their core the notion that the universe is natural, objectively «out there», knowable but distinct, and informing views on sexuality, sex, marriage, death, etc..

God could make his will / plan as knowable as chemistry and math (since he made chemistry and math as knowable as he made chemistry and math), but he doesn't, and so there's no way to determine what is or is not his will / plan so religions and cults and private individuals continue to debate which books (written by men) are or are not part of his plan or will.

Just as God's omnipotence is circumscribed by the possible, he argued, so God's omniscience must be limited to the knowable.

All religions profit by preaching the unknowable and denying the knowable.

This being the case, how can we both maintain that God has complete and perfect knowledge of everything knowable, including beings other than Himself, and still hold that God is not qualified to any degree by relations to other beings?

Such a state, by definition, is not directly knowable.

Griffin does not avail himself of the distinction proposed by Pailin, whereby God's personal attributes are those values which God has in fact chosen for all occasions in this actual world, in either case, however, such personal attributes would be knowable in the same way that his metaphysical attributes are, namely, by way of philosophical inquiry.

Thus almost all of the church's teachers have held that the existence of God is knowable, if not indeed demonstrable, even to reason, and that the dependence of all things on their primal cause is as definitely affirmed by the truest philosophy as by a theology whose source is the Christian revelation.

For Hartshorne, all such terms as «causality,» «matter,» «mind,» «private,» «knowable,» «ordered,» «good,» «evil,» «the past,» and «certainty,» can not be understood as having any clear, unparadoxical meaning apart from God as depicted by neoclassical metaphysics.

This is true for them almost by definition; for what is knowable is thereby introduced into the human world.

While German philosophers tended toward various forms of nihilism after Kant, «it was Husserl's great merit,» wrote Hilda Graef, Stein's biographer, «to have dispelled these mists of relativistic agnosticism by reaffirming the two old truths: the existence of objective truth and the existence of a knowable world in which we live.»

One can not prove anything by assuming the logical coherence of the classical idea of an ens realissimum or unsurpassable actuality, for this coherence is in no way known or knowable.

The former (characterized also by the terms «God - mysticism,» «passive» or «supra - ethical» mysticism) ends in world denial, affirms that Ultimate Reality is knowable, and asserts that one can, by means of special mental and spiritual powers, attain union with the Infinite.

We have proof that the supernatural can not be known or knowable and that man can only explain the created things through and by created things.

What they confronted was not a revivification of the man they had known, but rather one knowable only by a miracle of divine self - disclosure.

Rather, every unitary reality, including every material entity, is actual and knowable because it is known by God within the dynamic and interlocking framework of other created beings, and they are simultaneously contingent and provisional in so far as they are intrinsically dependent andstructured towards meanings beyond themselves within that environmental framework.

Defenders of classical theism often implicitly use the latter criterion, claiming they have defended their God's failure to prevent horrendous evils by simply pointing out that there might be some reason, knowable only by God, as to why it was good not to intervene.15 I would say, in any case, that it need not be «clear» in a strong sense of the term.

The theories of this era were tied together by a common belief in a single, objectively knowable truth.

While opinion varies on how much is implied by the rule of law, the minimalist opinion is that the law must be knowable and therefore prospective.

That's the place where everything should be clearly stated and understood by both parties... and, well, being «knowable» helps.

Perhaps then by grounding investment decisions in something knowable and intrinsic to a business — even something as simple as its book value — you can do better than basing decisions on past price movements or predictions regarding how extrinsic factors may impact its business.

So to every game developer, designer, and coder out there, slaving away at a faded keyboard in a windowless room made habitable by dim fluorescents and recycled atmosphere I ask: Does your pathetic franchise have the potential to bring about the existential unraveling of all that is known and knowable?

Can we make something observable, and therefore knowable, by simply building the technology to observe what we want to see?

Further, it was all knowable a few years ago and was then predicted by the most observant scientists.

If we knew everything that is knowable, and were limited only by quantum uncertainty, I think it might be possible to derive a reasonably accurate description of climate behavior based strictly on mathematics.

None of the CMIP5 projections reported by England, et al., has any knowable physical meaning, no matter whether they track over the «hiatus» or not.

CSPW has compared what ExxonMobil leadership has been disclosing to investors, year by year, contrasted with what was known and readily knowable regarding the state of climate science and related impacts.

The significant impediment to poverty reduction is imagining that capitalist markets are knowable, predictable and can be arbitrarily ordered by central planners.

By processing this enriched data, lawyers can draw conclusions about opposing counsel, judges, litigation parties, and contract drafts in order to reveal insights that were not previously knowable.

Science, at its core, is a method of inquiry, premised on the idea that objective phenomena are governed by consistent, knowable and experimentally provable rules.

If one of them has been hit by a car and has significant brain damage as a result, the therapist needs to take this as an objective truth with very real, knowable consequences for neuro - psychological functioning.