Sentences with phrase «logic of»

The Challenge of Peace, without reference to the logic of prima facie duties, replicates the structure of Childress» argument exactly: just war theory begins with a presumption against war, and the just war criteria function to override this presumption (or to show that it should not be overridden) in particular cases.

• (logic of) the course of action or line of reasoning suggested or made necessary by: if the logic of capital is allowed to determine events.

Alas, such certitude is unavailable to those of us persuaded by the logic of the heretical imperative.

Sam, It sounds like you question the logic of the Bible.

We must differentiate between the values and concerns of the Kingdom of God and the modern equivalents of Christendom, such as the world market which propagates its own values based on greed and the logic of world economics.

4) the logic of that statement is entirely true.

We believe that this clausal logic of Prolog provides a better way of understanding eternal objects.

Second, the logic of the classic just war tradition is reversed, so that within the jus ad bellum several recently invented prudential criteria are employed as if they were the most important, with correspondingly diminished attention to the fundamental deontological criteria, those described as «necessary» by Aquinas.

The decisions and actions that we are discussing here are not undertaken by the «logic of history,» nor by «medical science,» nor by «technological progress,» nor by «the imperatives of research.»

Logic of this sort would result in surrendering all God's creation to pagans and atheists - leaving nothing for Christians to use in worshiping the God who created all things for His pleasure (see Revelation 4:11).

The problem with basing a just war theory on the logic of an ethic of prima facie duties is that it has nothing to do with Catholic just war tradition.

I don't believe you have anything but the circular logic of The Babble.

The logic of this would be that you're not co-dependent if you * didn't * believe there was a decent person within him.

The logic of gift exchange is less about supply and demand than relationships and reciprocity.

First, as I note at Public Discourse today in» Kermit Gosnell and the Logic of «Pro-Choice,»» the most up - to - the - minute philosophers in bioethics are dispensing with any «sharp distinction,» as Jon puts it, between the unborn child and the one who has been born.

Indeed the logic of Homosexuality suggests that the difficult path of marital or celibate fidelity is a course of unhealthy denial and repression.

In this article Childress formulated just war theory in terms of the logic of prima facie duties as defined by the philosopher W. D. Ross.

Thus it would seem that what Boswell and others attribute to society's prejudices is in fact the necessary logic of the movement they champion.

The logic of Johnson's argument would seem to be that, since one or more major accommodations of the gospel were accepted in the past, the accommodation that feminists propose must also be accepted.

What was said of Cromwell — that he was the most typical Englishman of his time because he was the oddest — makes the peculiar logic of uniqueness apparent.

In light of the difficulties of such an assumption (see above, n. 5), it seems best to imagine that Matthew simply does not intend the logic of the passage to be pushed to this degree.

It is the heavenly Wisdom hidden from the wise and given to the simple, the logic of a God who becomes weak so that we might learn to be strong in love.

The metaphysics of nexus needs to be thoroughly discussed before that logic can be utilized adequately Accordingly, this paper is divided into two parts: in the first part, «The Metaphysics of Nexus,» the text of Process and Reality is examined in order to try to determine what White - head understood nexus to be; in the second part, «The Mathematics of Nexus,» nexus are interpreted in terms of the logic of relations.

I venture to speak in this way because I think that the logic of faith itself requires that some account be given of what Pascal has called the reasons of the heart.

Instead, I shall discuss some mathematical patterns exhibited by nexus that are definable in terms of the logic of relations.

You don't put in question the logic of the premises in a proposition.

Might want to examine the logic of that statement.

Since the logic of relations is neutral between these competing views about the metaphysics of nexus, my hope is that those who disagree with my interpretation will still find the second part helpful.

Because he also is a relation philosopher, my view is that it is sometimes fruitful to interpret aspects of his metaphysics in terms of the logic of relations.

My view is that using the logic of relations to understand nexus is compatible with understanding them as processes.

Insofar as the logic of Hartshorne's neoclassical theism requires us to affirm the priority of G - of - O over any wholly abstract vision of God, neoclassical theism is to this considerable extent more in accord with black theology than are most Western orthodox and neo-orthodox theologies.

Again, in this regard Bloom shares common ground with those multiculturalists who, in relativizing all cultures, undermine the logic of attachment to any one of them over the other.

The main point is that the inclusivist can read the second part of this paper as an attempt to understand cohesive nexus in terms of the logic of relations.

Thus, Hartshorne concludes that «The logic of love is not the logic of pacifism or of the unheroic life» (MVG 173).

Yet the procedural logic of the referendum implies that, by deleting or amending the article, the People will, as though magically, have acquired a right to void or curtail the right it refers to.

I am arguing the logic of Aquinas's proofs of God.

This definition of durations can be understood in terms of the logic of relations.

The reason is that a univocal reading gives place to certain negative corollaries entailed in a strict adherence to the logic of the confessional statement.

This, in my estimation, is the primary contribution of a process hermeneutic: that it draws our attention to the functional significance of the metaphysical lure while freeing interpretation from the strict logic of proximate lures.

Wayne C. Lusvardi is right to underscore that certain things» unborn children, for instance, or body parts, or drugs» shouldn't be subject to the logic of choice that prevails in a free market.

The importance of the category of nexus lies partly in its great generality, a generality that can be fully represented in terms of the logic of relations.

The Logic of Perfection and Other Essays in Neoclassical Metaphysics.

«Testifies to»: there is a troublesome ambiguity about the logic of this relationship, an ambiguity that pervades much of the recent literature on science and religion.

Having explored the metaphysics of nexus with reference to the text of Process and Reality, I shall now interpret the category of nexus in terms of the logic of relations.

The failure to see this has resulted from overlooking the logic of decision - making which prevents its monopoly.

But even in the more conventional worlds of quantum mechanics and relativity, let alone cosmology and string theory, what we think of as «the simple logic of cause and effect» goes pretty much right out the window.

«the simple logic of cause and effect»... I wonder how many people never saw the wool being pulled over their eyes when they read that one.

Confirmation bias is one problem, the other is absolutely lying about several scientific facts: «If the universe did indeed have a beginning, by the simple logic of cause and effect, there had to be an agent — separate and apart from the effect — that caused it.»

But I spend very little of my time explaining all the flawed logic of those who do.

«by the simple logic of cause and effect, there had to be an agent — separate and apart from the effect — that caused it»....