Sentences with phrase «logical implication in»

But mere familiarity is not enough, for it does not answer the fundamental question: if the causal relation is identified with the relation of logical implication in which the premises imply the conclusion, is it possible to obtain any temporal sequence at all without surreptitiously borrowing it from experience?

Not exact matches

The logical implication of that beneficial treatment is that barring a market meltdown in the interim, people looking to unload stock positions and take profits would tend to wait until January in hopes of gaining the 2018 tax benefit vs. 2017's tax code.

Tell me if I am wrong — I am not trying to put words in your mouth, but they seem the logical implication of what your saying.

However, I was definitely confused and also uninformed about the implications or logical conclusions of Calvinism, such as the fact that if Calvinism is true, God is the author of sin, since He, according to Calvin, predetermined every single little thing that has ever happened in history, including the sins of every man, including Adam!

Of course, there are interesting differences between these theologians, just as there were between Bonaventura and Calvin; and in some writers now, as of old, the logical implications are more adequately and rigorously worked out than in others.

I suspect this is why this new breed of rigid Calvinism that follows the «five points» to their most logical conclusion, without regard to the moral implications of them, has flourished in the past twenty years.

Seminary, then, is a learning laboratory in which Christians can learn to think about the logical implications of Christian doctrine.

We can understand Russell's later cautious advocacy of an explicitly metaphysical position as in part resulting from a consistent and continued commitment to, and application of, this method of logical construction, together with a dispassionate exploration of its full implications, rather than writing off this later phase as entirely distinct and grossly inconsistent with the earlier phases of Russell's career.

Long ago Leibniz saw this with wonderful clarity, but he hid the importance of his insight by interweaving it with some of the most extraordinary fantasies in intellectual history, as well as with the consequences of some pseudo-axioms that he for the first time conceived with full sharpness so that their logical implications were apparent.

I know the implication of this cartoon is that the church is engaging in bad logic, but I'm struggling to see precisely how in formal logical terms.

For Hartshorne one very important method is to elaborate the logically exhaustive options in dealing with a traditional metaphysical issue, and then to examine the logical implications of each option.

Also, there are lots of logical flaws in the «scientific» connections between studies and the implications for CIO.

I am mostly not a conservative in the American or even European political sense, but I am conservative in the sense of seeking to preserve and build upon the achievements of Western civilization — including the development of its logical implications for future decades and centuries.

However, Fox adds, although «it has been claimed children are very different from adults in the interpretation of logical words,» the study's larger implication is almost the opposite — namely that «the child is [otherwise] identical to the adult, but there is a very small parameter that distinguishes them.»

Space limits an extended discussion here, but we note two conclusions from a 2012 article by Economic Policy Institute researcher Monique Morrissey, who explains that «the logical implication of Richwine and Biggs's [pension] position is that public employers and taxpayers would be indifferent between current pension funding practices and investing in Treasury securities, even though this would triple the cost of pension benefits» and that R & B «selectively alternate between the cost of benefits to employers and the value to workers, and inappropriately equate the latter with the often much higher cost to individuals of obtaining equivalent benefits.»

Druce Vertes at StreetEye (a site I recommend) takes the implication of this trend to its logical extreme in a post entitled: «What if everyone were a passive investor except Warren Buffet?»

Our goals with Color Thief are to create an atmospheric puzzle game that respects the player by minimizing hand - holding and repetition, tells a story through details in the environment, and builds an engaging experience by following the logical implications of a simple gameplay idea (what if color equaled energy?).

It was the logical next step for fantasy games where revival magic existed and it was a beautiful reprieve to see a game address some more complicated implications of magic's existence in the world.

Even among the public that accepts the science of global climate change, the dire circumstances we now face in this regard are consistently downplayed, and the logical implications that follow from the scientific analysis of the necessity to enact swift and aggressive measures to combat climate change are not followed through either intellectually or politically.

Everything I say is a simple logical extrapolation from what should have been the obvious implications of that change in trend as regards jetstream behaviour.

At that time Mr. Mann and his colleagues clearly accepted that a less active sun resulted in a more negative polar oscillation but he never seems to have followed through with the logical implications, not least that a more active sun might have caused the observed late 20th century positive polar oscillations and the observed poleward drift of the jets and that therefore the cause was not changes in anthropogenic CO2 and / or CFC quantities.

Indeed, I have argued that his arguments against judicial review of legislation and Justice Scalia's in favour of limiting judicial review to the enforcement of the original meaning of the constitution are very similar, and that, if anything, «Justice Scalia and his fellow originalists are guilty of failing to follow the logical implications of their own views about the nature of the questions that arise in judicial review.