Sentences with phrase «limited human thinking»

This issue of limited human thinking, and many others, is often what keeps us from acting in the earth's (and therefore our own) best interests.

Positivism limits human thought to the arena of the given and hence is essentially conservative or reactionary.

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As I argue in a forthcoming paper in the Georgetown Law Journal, there are cases in which we should think not in terms of the rights the corporation should enjoy, but in terms of the appropriate limits to be placed on the corporation, understood as a tool for achieving human objectives.

«I think people's intuitions do just really break down when they're pushed to these limits because we've never dealt with entities that are smarter than humans on this planet.»

Further, I think that even what you see as limited human logic abilities are quite robust and testable.

And when you think others are stupid to be «religious», how stupid are you to limit yourself to this one planet, when there are billions up there, all connected by God's Galactic Internet, no big bang, no beginning, no end, forever, billions of souls traveling the ever - changing universe, in and out of various human - like bodies, on and off of different earth - like planets.

Even though our images of totally committed, self - sacrificing, lifelong love are invariably limited to our taste of that kind of love through our human parents, they are still the best images we have and about the best we can manage in thinking about God.

Cartesians — taking the theologically grounded refusal to believe in spirits or worry about the influence of final causes to some sort of plausible limit — believed that «animals» were insentient, and that only humans had goals or thoughts or feelings.

In confining God's revelation to the written word, sola scriptura theology not only cut itself off from much of the rich trinitarian thinking since Nicaea, but limited revelation to the exigencies of human salvation.

Human feelings, sensory perceptions, thinking process, etc. are all highly limited in range and flawed within its range.

God will not only absorb the effects of the human misuse of power, but will «look bad» in the eyes of those who think that God's possibilities should not be so limited (see 1 Cor 1:26 - 31)(See Fretheim, The Suffering of God, 76).

Third, the context has shifted: in contrast to the traditional Catholic conception of the political community, and politics within such communities, as the means of achieving real if limited justice for human life in the world, and a corresponding theory of international relations, recent Catholic thought on war often treats the state as a locus of injustice and the goals of particular states as inherently at odds with the achievement of common human goals, while an internationalism defined in terms of the United Nations system is proposed as the best means to those common goals.

Being human being we have a limited knowledge, we experiences impossibilities due to of our limited vision, thinking and approach but there is nothing limited or impossible for the CREATOR.

When all allowance has been made for these limiting factors — the chances of oral transmission, the effect of translation, the interest of teachers in making the sayings «contemporary,» and simple human fallibility — it remains that the first three gospels offer a body of sayings on the whole so consistent, so coherent, and withal so distinctive in manner, style content, that no reasonable critic should doubt, whatever reservations he may have about individual sayings, that we find reflected here the thought of a single, unique teacher.

Theories proliferate before the rational conundrums of human thought: is the universe limited or unlimited in space and time?

This occurs when we think of heaven as the place of salvation and when we ask what must we do to «get in,» or when we think of heaven or salvation as requiring a way of life on earth that really limits our happiness or natural desires or human goals.

I would also expect humanly created definitions to use terminology limited to human thought and experience.

Since I left print journalism to study theology two decades ago, I've thought a great deal about the limits and possibilities of words - especially when we try to navigate the spiritual territory of human life.

-- the question still remains: starting as we must with our limited human experience, what is the road our thoughts ought to travel out toward the truth about God?

If we think at all about life's underlying reality, we have to think in limited human terms.

If one thinks of the universal creative powers (or however he customarily considers God) as becoming concentrated within the limits of a human body, the assertion is pure nonsense.

From Lear's interpretation of Socratic irony, we learn that the proper response to the insuperable limits of human knowledge, to the perplexities arising in the midst of what we thought we understood, is wonder.

In Catholic thinking, just as the principle of private ownership is limited by the common destiny of the goods of the earth, so legitimate claims to local self - determination must also be integrated into a wider commitment to the extended family of the whole human race.

But the recognition that human thought can not attain any certain knowledge can liberate one to think freely and creatively over a wide range of questions that have often been taboo when one was supposed to limit thinking to areas in which certainty is possible.

I think I have been struggling for years to reach beyond the limits of my limited human understanding to find the Being (I AM) Who my spirit is certain lays beyond them.

Monad's were for Leibniz just as real on the subhuman, even subanimal, levels, as on the human level; they were merely much less capable of thought and definite conscious recollections and perceptions, more limited to simple feeling and extremely short - run memory of what has just happened.

It is letting go of these ego / human / limiting thoughts that we can experience God and commune with the Angels and Masters.

Even though legitimate sexual activity can not be limited to marriage, Russell thinks that under certain conditions marriage can be the «best and most important relation that can exist between two human beings» (p. 143).

The evolution I love the most is the evolution of human thought to better understand these things that have been provided to us, so we can live better lives... and all true believers feel the same, though they are often limited by their own experiences in various ways — culture, education, social groups, life experiences.

Scientific, philosophical, and religious thoughts, are all flawed with our limited human perceptions based on our own human experiences and the evolution of those thoughts over time.

As for who created God, do you really think the very limited human mind can really begin to comprehend the nature of one who would have to be by nature unlimited?

Confirmation Bias... «Explanations for the observed biases include wishful thinking and the limited human capacity to process information.»

Her doctor was shocked but said that since humans are still evolving her early development may be more normal than we think research is only limited to certain group studies.She just turned 6 months on 7/25/14 and she is now completely pulling herself up on furniture and has taken her first few steps without support.

«Our new study shows that the pattern is a lot simpler than we first thought — human evolution was much more limited,» Dr Evans said.

I think it continues to be a great challenge for Florida, because Florida has nothing in its loss or zoning or planning mechanisms that call for the state to limit the human population load in South Florida.

The study didn't test humans and dogs head to head — I think the dogs might win depending on the odor — but what it shows is the limits of human smell tracking haven't really been investigated.

The book is a heady ride through a cherry - picked crop of impressive discoveries in science and medicine, all of them made when the human body was pushed to what we now think of as its limits.

Society's failure to embrace the idea of neurodiversity and accept people who think differently might be limiting human potential, says a new book

Researchers thought culturally transmitted behavior was limited to humans and chimpanzees, but the new study suggests that all great apes share a common ancestor that was multicultural.

Although scientists previously thought that grieving behavior was limited to chimps and humans, researchers have now observed the behavior in several other monkey species, as well as elephants, dogs, cats, and even crows.

Unlike embryonic stem cells, which are developmental blank slates that can generate virtually all types of cells found in adult humans, adult stem cells are thought to possess limited potential to transform into cells found in their tissues of origin.

Limited data are available about the ecology of SARS - CoV, but bats are thought to be the animal reservoir for the virus which may be transmitted to small mammals with exposure to these small animals as the source of human infections [10].

«I don't think that the kind of approach the authors took gives evidence for a limit to human lifespan.»

Have you ever stopped to think that there might be an upper - limit to human metabolism?

Dating is a stage of romantic relationships in humans whereby two people meet socially with the aim of each assessing the other's suitability as a The world is divided into two groups of people: those who think it's OK to date a friend's ex and those who believe it's completely off - limits.

A young male zombie spends his days roaming the barren and devastated wasteland that is America with limited thoughts and actions, only able to remember that his name while he was human began with the letter «R» and only yearning to eat the brains of the few remaining living humans just so he can connect and learn to feel alive again.

Just as importantly, conservatives fail to realize that reliance on tradition can often be as senseless as technocratic thinking because it is based on limited human reasoning.

On balance, I think I prefer our system, where there's always a speed limit but enforcement is typically relegated to an actual human being.

Or does part of the responsibility lie with the people who exploit human beings» limited impulse control and general inability to make sensible choices, whether by saturation advertising aimed at showing how their establishment offers a bunch of drunk people unlimited bread sticks and bottomless cheesecakes for a special low price or lulling them into thinking too large and too thirsty vehicles transform their sedentary fat selves into adventure - loving action figures?

Mankind is a long way from developing a computer to think like a human, given the reality, computers have a limited role in making decisions in price action trading.