Sentences with phrase «logical idea of»

I don't know what the total payout for all 500 UFC fighters for last year is but that would give us a more logical idea of what percentage compared to the other major sports.

Not exact matches

That idea was traumatized by Marxism pushing classical political economy to its logical conclusion — to free capitalism from the carry - overs of the feudal epoch of landlordism, predatory finance and the monopolies that money - lenders obtained from governments.

This view may be argued for in various ways: — first: by appeal to logical laws and metaphysical necessities; — second: by appeal to the existence and nature of God; — third: by appeal to causal determinism (Causal determinism is the idea that every event is necessitated by antecedent events and conditions together with the laws of nature)

What more logical idea is there than that we are going to evolve eternally, and that the ultimate result of evolving would be to become an all - powerful being?

No matter how it is explained, however, this idea is more blatantly wrong than any of the other logical steps leading up to it.

The logical model in terms of which the mind with its ideas, and substance with its attributes were conceived as unified wholes was that of the subject with predicates, which also had become something quite other than what it had been for Aristotle, since universals were no longer thought of as «forms.»

To take the idea that things get so small, we can no longer predict what will happen because our act of observing them changes them, so things aren't logical at that level is bull.

Job seekers should be able to offer some sort of proof of their personal integrity as well as logical arguments that prove the soundness of their ideas.

It is poor method to try to estimate facts, especially such as are hard to measure with any accuracy, without careful survey of the logical structure of the ideas we bring to bear upon these facts.

Newman expects that all legitimate developments will preserve the original idea, rely on the same principles, «grow» out of the original idea, be anticipated by prior speculation so that they do not appear out of the blue, display logical sequence of development, and so on.

«1 In fact, the idea of God is not invented by the philosopher but encountered in human history so that it can not be sustained by merely logical construction.

@Snow, «With your skill at making logical leaps like this...» Apparently you do understand the idea of sarcasm.

This is a style of communication that is «messy» for those bred with the clean «logical» world of print culture's abstracted ideas.

Rather than process a logical argument faithfully, you twist and contort all ideas until they bow before your throne of a priori belief.

According to Mays, Whitehead's metaphysics is that coherent, logical, and necessary system of general ideas whose model is a purely abstract system of mathematics and formal logic.

Thus it conceives the world of nature as something derived from and dependent upon something logical prior to itself, a world of immaterial ideas; but this is not a mental world or a world of mental activities or of things depending on mental activity although it is an intelligible world or a world in which mind, when mind comes into existence, finds itself completely at home.

The logical and dialectical God of the theologians — the God who can be put into a system, enclosed in an idea, or thought about philosophically as «a state of being in which all ideas are absorbed» — is not the God who can be met in the lived concrete.

I once cite «Realism and Idealism,» the passage about objective idealism in which Collingwood clearly states his conception of the world of nature: «Thus it conceives the world of nature as something derived from and dependent upon something logical prior to itself, a world of immaterial ideas; but this is not a mental world or a world of mental activities or of things depending on mental activity although it is an intelligible world or a world in which mind, when mind comes into existence, finds itself completely at home.

Metaphysics for Bergson strives to minimize the mediation of all symbols (like words and concepts), and although metaphysics «claims to dispense with symbols,» it can not dispense with them entirely.13 Hence, since it requires reflection and articulation (in spite of being based on intuition) metaphysics will always be required to genuflect at the door to the sanctuary of the intellect (even though the immediacy of Being, analogous to the Holy Spirit in a Christian sanctuary is supposed to be present in intuition), and it is in the moment of genuflection that the idea of logical necessity infiltrates metaphysics and becomes an unhappy resident alien.

But the solution to the problem of whether the preservation of all values is a logical implicate of Whitehead's principles (and whether the idea is empirically valid) is at least partly dependent on the answers that are given to these concepts: (A) «elimination» (which involves «negative prehensions»); (B) «objective immortality»; and (C) the «incompatibility of values.»

It begins with a philosophy that endeavors to frame a coherent, logical, necessary system of general ideas that combines a creative and unique expression of the nature and unity of God.

In all of these we were dealing with concepts, with the realm of ideas that must be logical and consistent.

Though many Calvinists argue that double predestination is the only logical conclusion to the Calvinist position on God's election of some (but not all) to receive eternal life, I am not going to belabor the point or try to refute the idea since most Calvinists claim that they do not teach or believe it... (for more on reprobation and double predestination I recommend this book: Vance: The Other Side of Calvinism, pp, 250 - 333).

The idea that god may send some of his creation to hell for their evil is even more of a logical quandry.

Speculative Philosophy is the endeavor to frame a coherent, logical, necessary system of general ideas in terms of which every element of our experience can be interpreted.

For this will be already included in what we will know A nonexistent but coherently conceivable deity is not even a possibility, but only the disjunction: either the necessary falsity (logical absurdity) or the necessary truth of the idea of God.

And yet, even for psychicalism — and this explains the qualification «partly» — psychical concepts are also different from obviously formal ideas because they are categorial, and hence universally applicable, not to entities of all logical types, but only to «concrete singulars,» which is to say, individuals and events, as distinct both from aggregates, which are concrete but not singular, and all levels of qualities, which are merely abstract (141).

A special musical rhythm runs equally through all parts of the speech; there is a common, harmonious style, and a logical plan in the development of the ideas expressed.

«Speculative philosophy,» writes Whitehead, «is the endeavor to frame a coherent, logical, necessary system of general ideas in terms of which every element in our experience can be interpreted,» but they «are not dogmatic assertions of the obvious; they are tentative formulations of the ultimate generalities.»

A number of examples of logical order come to mind: Plato's realm of Ideas, for instance, constitutes a preassigned pattern that charts particular things and events as real or good only to the degree they conform to these preexistent iIdeas, for instance, constitutes a preassigned pattern that charts particular things and events as real or good only to the degree they conform to these preexistent ideasideas.

This hypothesis of a final maturing and ecstasy of Mankind, the logical conclusion of the theory of complexity, may seem even more far - fetched than the idea (of which it is the extension) of the planetization of Life.

To the Stagerite, we owe: the idea that the natural world is a coherent object of philosophical study, the structure of that philosophy, and the rational and logical tools with which to study it.

For Whitehead, «Speculative Philosophy is the endeavor to frame a coherent, logical, necessary system of ideas in terms of which every element of our experience can be interpreted.»

Indeed in his magnum opus, Process and Reality, he sets out to elaborate «a coherent, logical, necessary system of general ideas in which every element of our experience can be interpreted» (PR 5).

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.

In many passages it is obvious that the idea of God inherent in Jesus» thought has not yet found its logical conclusion; that what Jesus himself, thinking in terms of some of his own parables and of his own life - principles, could not have considered ethically satisfying endless, hopeless torture, without constructive moral purpose and therefore without moral meaning — God is accused of inflicting, as judge of the world and arbiter of destiny.

The methods of logical deduction and induction, and especially scientific method, seem to possess a neutrality and public accessibility that makes them apt measuring rods for the veracity of our ideas.

Again, my idea of truth is: Logical, Empirical, Explanitory and Relevant.

Still, I should think that before endorsing the idea that the logical limit of power is restricted to power sufficient to bring about only what is metaphysically possible, we should want to be shown that such contradiction can, in fact, be derived.

From this conviction, implicit in the whole idea of the covenant but seen with fullest clarity by the prophets, it was a logical step to the conclusion that God had given to Israel special privileges in order to be the special servant of all mankind.

Heavily influenced by the Enlightenment and the philosophical tradition of Logical Positivism (the idea that if something is not able to be judged true or false, then we are rationally compelled to ignore it as irrelevant), much of the modern Church has bought into the belief that the truth of Christianity should be treated like any other set of factual claims, and that people of faith can somehow rationally observe ultimate truth with a level of personal detachment and objectivity.

Speculative Philosophy is the endeavour to frame a coherent, logical, necessary system of general ideas in terms of which every element of our experience can be interpreted.

The idea of a nationally self - sufficient economy is in principle quite logical.

He defines it as»... the endeavour to frame a coherent, logical, necessary system of general ideas in terms of which every element of our experience can be interpreted.»

The very logical rigor which made Greek mathematics exemplary also stood in the way of introducing any idea which could not be rigorously defined.

Perhaps the most manifest deterring force was the rigid insistence on the exclusion from the mathematics of any idea not at the time allowing of strict logical interpretation.

And the idea that a world of high - level sentient creatures could be created only through an evolutionary process is surely not a logical truth — as illustrated by all the creationists who deny that our world was so created.11 Hasker has defended his view of God only by implicitly giving it up.12

[It] is the endeavor to frame a coherent, logical system of general ideas in terms of which every element of our experience can be interpreted» (PR 4).

Spinoza traced this hypothesis to its logical conclusions, pointing out that it left no room whatever for any ideas about chance, free will, or the immortality of individual souls.

Although Whitehead warned against «the merest hint of dogmatic certainty» (PR xiv), he also endeavored «to frame a coherent, logical, necessary system of general ideas» (PR 3; emphasis added), and at least some of the elements of his system Whitehead himself called «categoreal conditions which flow from the final nature of things» (PR 222).