It is important to remember that there
literally is no such thing as a mass audience; there are only ways of looking at individuals in the mass.
Not exact matches
Anyone with any knowledge of simple math knows that the odds involved in
literally thousands of
things that must happen for evolution to
be true
is such great odds that any mathematician would tell you that it
is impossible.
Larger non-human or inhuman systems,
such as institutions, economies, governments, families,
are not «adversarial,» «competitive» or «cruel» except in our manners of speaking which project human characteristics on groups and corporaton which
are literally no
thing: can't touch.
The problem that Mr. Bottum correctly identifies
is that those
such as Chomsky who do not believe in nonmaterial
beings literally can not make sense of the kinds of
things done by those who still speak and act in powerful mythic symbols.
To speak
literally, God has no fingers, and there may or may not
be such things as evil spirits; what the gospels call casting out devils we might describe, rightly or wrongly, in other terms.
Such a vision leaves all
things the same, except that now they
are seen to hang,
literally depend, on the grace of God.
But the term
literally suggests that all
things have or
are psyches, while he (as well as Wright) stresses that only genuine individuals, not aggregates (
such as rocks), have or
are psyches.
In particular, a probability of 0 means there
's literally no chance of that
thing happening, a probability of 1 means that it
's certain to happen, and a probability in between these extremes
such as 0.5 means there
's a 50 % chance of it happening.
A woman's body
is quite
literally building an entire human
being during pregnancy, and as
such, she needs a lot of quality sources of all the
things needed to support the human body - mainly proteins, fats, vegetables and fruits, and certain supplements she can't adequately get from food.
This reminds me of how we know
things intuitively, or perhaps even
literally seeing the consequences of
things such as this, yet
are told there
is no «evidence.»
When I became pregnant, I knew that there would
be a lot of
things needed for both me and the baby, but HOLY MOLY, I had no clue that
such a tiny human can require SO MUCH STUFF!!!!!
Literally, the baby gear has taken over our place and I can't imagine her truly «needing» everything, but I don't want to
be a bad mom and not have what everyone tells me I should have.
It
's says tropical vibes all over and then again pink and green together
is such a spring
thing... quite
literally, don't ya think?
Alex believes that there
is «no
such thing as a bad idea (not
literally true),» but that «you don't know where that idea might lead.»
The layers in which he surrounds the body, both metaphorically and
literally,
such as the fattening - up or thinning - down of people and
things,
are sculptural metaphors for an existential insecurity about the boundaries of oneself.
Inspired in part by period episodic television programs
such as Rod Serling's Night Gallery, as well as incorporating French existentialism and absurdist dialogue, Gaines, Gordon and Segade appear in videos in which, among other
things, an unemployed woman romances a supernatural
being; a man turns to witch doctors following a health insurance hassle; and art curators trapped in an executive board room curate —
literally — nightmares drawn from today's economic anxieties.
The stark reality
is that there
is literally no
such thing as clean coal electricity in the United States today — not one American home today
is powered by a coal - burning plant that captures and stores its carbon pollution.
We've all heard the saying «there
is no
such thing as bad publicity» — but of course we don't take that
literally.
There
is literally no
such thing as The One Best Oregon Car Insurance Company.
We spend a lot of time with ourselves, so in one sense, we know more about ourselves than anyone else could ever know; but there
are things about ourselves that we
literally can't see,
such as our facial expressions and our body language.