Sentences with phrase «made about the logic»

When Tom Derr made him a gift of my book, Richard twitted me in print for an argument I had made about the logic of «supererogatory acts,» acts beyond the call of duty.

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So if the consumer wants it, the market wants it, profits and performance aren't necessarily sacrificed, it could make your company more resilient, and make it easier to hire top young talent, why is there still a debate about the logic of being a socially conscious company?

That logic made some sense to me, and he convinced me to think about it for 48 hours before making a final decision.

Suppose, further, that this issue was logically related to matters of principle at a deeper level, so that one could not commit oneself on this issue without also making significant commitments about the internal logic and character of the tradition as a whole.

are people so simple they crave the misguided beliefs of others to feel better about themselves or are we triing to understand the lunacy of our citizens to believe something as pathic as a 3000 year old IDEA in order to act properly when voting in those who will run this country for the next 4 years a.k.a. voting in one who using rational thinking and logic to make choices!

i do nt understand what religous people really believe is waiting for them in an afterlife when we know for a fact that the body doesn't go there and the fact that animals apparently cant go to heaven because they have no soul is well thats just good old conceited man made rubbish that is everywhere in the bible and before i get attacked i was raised religious and got very religious for a few years till i actually thought about it and applyed logic to it after that the whole concept of religion made me feel sick

For too long, I elevated popular culture's opinion of me over what I know about being fearfully and wonderfully made, over my logic, over my own feminist and theological convictions, over my beliefs about who I am in Christ.

«Long ago and far away there was a dot that expanded rapidly into the universe...» that in itself is a leap in logic my friend... many assumptions made about cosmic background radiation that we know very little about.

Dr. Wickman should know better than to make unsubstantiated assumptions, exercise poor logic, and worst of all, make statements about scientific fields she is not educated in.

From a finite set of particular observations one can not derive a universal generalization with certainty (the much debated logic of induction can provide no inferential grounds for making assertions about all cases when only a particular group of cases has been examined).

European societies through 14 centuries had assumed that a political community requires religious uniformity, and the logic of that assumption seemed impeccable: Religion involves the most fundamental commitment of people's lives, their conviction about what makes life ultimately worthwhile; consequently, religious diversity within a political community opens the possibility of serious political conflict.

You have suspended all logic and reason in order to perpetuate your belief, thereby making your opinions about science or technology completely invalid

YOU refuse to use context, instead you make up crap about what Paul says.Youre the one who needs to learn about logic and using context when using communication... prove me wrong..

I think one of the things about Christianity is that it is not simply a faith that you understand at a spiritual faith level, but in fact can be also justified through logic... You look at how Jesus fulfilled perfectly, to the letter, every single prophecy that was made of the coming Messiah.

As to logic it makes no sense whatsoever that if there was a God that God would require a loophole to bring about a plan of salvation.

If you make an argument about logic, please don't use a logic fallacy when doing so.

Oh and that bs about impressionable kids is a dead argument so we follow your logic and make our kids learn that they should allow corruption, vendetta and those with power do what they want.

I assume that they know enough basic logic to realize that reading what lay people write about medical literature that they haven't read makes absolutely no sense.

Just about any created work would do, provided that it was made with enough logic or style to open the eyes — this time, I started with some late»50s Westerns and The Terminator on cable (home sick on a Friday night), then hit the National Gallery and the Hirshhorn, and finally went through out a couple of big books of propaganda and music posters.

The logic's obvious when you think about it: Facebook organizing is free as long as you're not running ads or paying to promote content, making it perfect for candidates with more enthusiasm than cash.

On the other hand, explicitly instructing people to think about logic - related ideas, tapping into their conscious mind, did make them perform better on logic tests.

Every typo leaps off the page and you realise that your caffeine - fuelled, razor - sharp midnight logic makes about as much sense as a Danish art - house film.

According to the memoirs of Bertrand Russell, Wittgenstein described the citizens of the village as «wicked» for refusing him his ration of milk because he was teaching the children mathematics — and that was about logic, not making money.

A common idea about why this works is that the mistakes various people make cancel each other out; an additional, more important idea is that there's at least a little bit of correctness in the logic and assumptions underlying many of the guesses, so they center around the right answer.

But often the choices we make about how and what we spend money on have more to do with our emotions and thoughts than any real logic.

And for a vegan bodybuilder who must unfortunatelly play tetris with the food sources that he choses in order to give to his body the right ammounts of aminos, restricting SPI and soy foods so much does not make his goal any easier.There are sometimes that you need a meal thats complete with aminos and soy provides that meal with the additional benefits of lacking the saturated fats trans cholesterol and other endothelium inflammatory factors.I'm not saying that someone should go all the way to 200gr of SPI everyday or consuming a kilo of soy everyday but some servings of soy now and then even every day or the use of SPI which helps in positive nitrogen balance does not put you in the cancer risk team, thats just OVERexaggeration.Exercise, exposure to sunlight, vegan diet or for those who can not something as close to vegan diet, fruits and vegetables which contains lots of antioxidants and phtochemicals, NO STRESS which is the global killer, healthy social relationships, keeping your cortisol and adrenaline levels down (except the necessary times), good sleep and melatonin function, clean air, no radiation, away from procceced foods and additives like msg etc and many more that i can not even remember is the key to longevity.As long as your immune system is functioning well and your natural killer cells TP53 gene and many other cancer inhibitors are good and well, no cancer will ever show his face to you.With that logic we shouldn't eat ANY ammount of protein and we should go straight to be breatharians living only with little water and sunlight exposure cause you like it or not the raise of IGF1 is inevitable i know that raise the IGF1 sky high MAYBE is not the best thing but we are not talking about external hormones and things like this.Stabby raccoon also has a point.And even if you still worry about the consumption of soy... http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21711174.

The logic goes that if you're not diligent enough to check your spelling and re-read your work to make sure it all makes sense, then you can't be that bothered about online dating either.

That the film makes almost zero sense is besides the point; those worrying about what Frank's job is, how Mitch's nerdy co-workers find out about the fraternity, or why Mitch's standard - issue love interest Nicole (Ellen Pompeo, who looks like a more sandy - haired Renée Zellweger) has any interest in the doofus will be flummoxed by the gaping holes in logic and narrative cohesion on display.

Thinking about it now, part of me considers the film to be a masterpiece, another thinks that it's a ridiculously unbelievable tale that not only defies logic, but makes claims that aren't supported by the narrative.

The holes in the plot are gaping, and the lack of logic in the story's development is obvious, suggesting that director Allen Hughes and editor Cindy Mollo made conscious decisions to retain the wisecracks and occasional bursts of action rather than worry overmuch about the dramatic structure.

Dynamic typing, variables are declared as they appear, tons and tons of show - offy syntactic sugars, which only make code less readable and the logic less obvious, tons and tons of very weak and lenient rules about scoping and visibility.

Rather than treating instructional decision making as an individual activity, our analysis suggests that is a process that is simultaneously enabled and constrained by policies, curriculum tools, and logics about the purposes of differentiation.

Seeing how the grammatical errors made by these particular students are often rooted in the logic of their native languages and how a teacher who understands something about that logic and that culture can sensitively respond in context - specific ways may lead teacher candidates to develop cognitive flexibility as they wonder what other patterns in student writing (and their own) are the result of where they grew up and how they can take that into account when writing feedback.

Pre - and postobservation conversations provide an opportunity for a teacher to talk in depth about his or her logic in making classroom decisions, Frisinger says.

I don't do antitrust law, so I'm hardly an expert (and my tame IP law expert admitted it had been too long since he took antitrust law...), but what's nice about the Sherman Act is that there is a semblance of logic to it: price fixing, monopolization, even restraint of trade — they all make intuitive sense as being bad for the consumer.

Yes, complaining about something that is inevitable, inescapable consequence of logic — like the fact that rain, while necessary to sustain life, still sucks because it makes you wet — is indeed a neurosis.

It may not have quite the same resonance as William Goldman's infamous line about the movie business — «nobody knows anything» — but Carolyn Reidy's comment, made at a recent Book Industry Study Group meeting held in New York, that «the more we know, the more we have to learn» is an excellent reminder that, as the redoubtable chief executive of Simon & Schuster Inc also noted, publishing has its own «peculiar logic».

I use the same logic when thinking about making long - term bets in moats.

I instead embraced my logic and reason and used those tools to correctly analyze deals and do math and make sound decisions about investing.»

Like i said using your logic its safe to safe that all white people are serial killers, all arabs are terrorist, and all black people still right??? think about your answer before you give it be cause the one you just gave made you sound very prejudice towards pitbulls and uneducated about the topic being discussed....

If their logic and reasoning makes sense to you, and you have an otherwise good gut feeling about them, by all means, continue your discussions.

Say what you like about the insane logic a lot of other point and click games utilise when crafted their head - scratchers, but at least the weird situations and solutions tend to make them memorable.

In the catalogue for his retrospective at the Whitney in 1980, Sanford Schwartz wrote that Hofmann» had a special, immediate potency for Stout because his formulations and analogies — about how colors and shapes must be made to wrestle with, and eventually find peace with, each other — have a musical logic to them.»

Structural elements such as walls and columns are clad with earth and grass to pose larger questions about impermanence and the logic of man - made systems.

The very idea of abstract painting was not about logic; there was an individual anarchy about making truly abstract paintings, and of course Sam Francis was about that.

In thinking about rules as acts of creation I have been recently drawn into a reinvestigation of logic based works such as Frank Stella's black paintings (in which the logic of the making fully embodies the resulting shape), Sol LeWitt's wall drawings (in terms of setting up a series of rules that can create a coherent visual structure), and incremental works such as Carl Andre's floor pieces (which also embody an element of time and distance because one is required to «travel» in order to view the entire work).

Mercurially applying the logic, aesthetics and politics of his subjects — who include the composers / musicians Cornelius Cardew and L. Voag, and the psychologist R.D. Laing — to the film he is making about them, he creates atmospheric, sampled histories that reverberate with the vitality of the people he studies.

This is why it's good that Paul Krugman, among others, has pointed to the work of Martin Weitzman at Harvard, who's been making the point for awhile that the economic logic of action on emissions comes as much from what is not known about the worst - case risks as what is already established.

*** In yesterday's post we described Alan Finkel's report on Australia's power market fiasco as a mixture of Lewis Carroll's «Through the Looking - Glass» — residing in a place where the fundamentals of physics and economics, logic and reason are playfully and permanently suspended — and Goldilocks — the story about an infantile quest to make sure -LSB-...]

Dr. N - G makes a fair point at Eli's, that the logic about the grant - applications is a bit circular.