Sentences with phrase «many traditional assumptions»

«Our traditional assumptions of ownership are really frustrated by these digital distribution models,» said Aaron Perzanowski, an associate professor of law at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.

The only place where the Bible and science conflict at all is the science of origins (if science it could be called), and that is only an issue if one insists that 1) genesis is absolutely literal; 2) genesis is the whole story and there is nothing more; 3) traditional assumptions about genesis are the only ones and there is no other way to understand the book.

Hence Leibniz clearly reflected the traditional assumption that entities with the power to affect are superior to, or more perfect than, entities with the power to be affected.

On the traditional assumption that knowledge is justified true belief, we may interpret Whitehead as asserting that from the fact that we have a strongly held, possibly even unshakable, belief we may conclude — apparently only on that basis — that the belief is true and adequately justified.

Women are speaking with a new voice, a courageous voice which challenges many traditional assumptions — the most important is the challenge to the notion that women are required, by tradition and by the biblical heritage, to submit to all forms of inhuman treatment.

Job, Plato, and the Greater and lesser Commandments are my basic traditional assumptions, together with the new freedom in science to admit self - activity as the index of mentality or the psychical.

But the traditional assumption that the word has reference to something that is real apart from language is now often rejected.

This in turn undercuts the traditional assumption that God controls the future (or at least knows it in detail), and has everything already planned out (chapter 2).

And as that optimism diminished, the Century also turned from its traditional assumption that American - style democracy was so superior to any other political option that it deserved automatic celebration wherever it encountered opposition.

A person with a progressive terminal disease faces a unique situation — one which calls for a new look at traditional assumptions about the motivation for choosing suicide.

We believe, however, that a person with a progressive terminal disease faces a unique situation — one which calls for a new look at traditional assumptions about the motivation for choosing suicide.

«Our findings on the effects of homework challenge the traditional assumption that homework is «inherently good» (Gill & Schlossman, 2001, p. 27), and instead suggest that researchers, practitioners, students, and parents unpack why the default practice of assigning heavy homework loads exists, in the face of evidence of its negative effects.»

It was the President's fervent hope that the deep love Queen Elizabeth shown for the Commonwealth «will continue to light the way for all of us and our successors, as we endeavour to establish firmly in a world, where many traditional assumptions are under serious threat, the values of fairness, decency, freedom and openness, which have been the object of her work.

Today, researchers are challenging traditional assumptions about transplant eligibility and donor matching in an effort to expand the universe of patients who can benefit from this treatment while improving long - term success rates.

They wanted children with traditional assumptions about their responsibilities to the family, humility, and self - sacrifice, in addition to modernized ambitions — an unrelenting drive to become the elite.

«It is time to move away from traditional assumptions about how schools should look, how teachers should teach, and how students should learn,» argued Maria Worthen and Lillian Pace, authors of a new policy paper in support of competency - based learning.

We positioned interactive, dynamic experiences early in each face - to - face PD session and conducted them throughout the study to challenge participants» (very likely) traditional assumptions.

It retains the most important traditional assumption: the normal, Gaussian, bell shaped distribution (of return percentages) with independent monthly returns.

The Twin Cities real estate market continues to defy the traditional assumptions of supply and demand as year - on - year home prices rise while supply also increases.

You will explore a procedurally generated world, fight in arcade 2D battles and experience a story that breaks the fourth wall and pokes fun at traditional assumptions about games and Vikings.

The exhibition features the artist's bold and experimental work challenging traditional assumptions about figuration and abstraction, and works that reveal her interest in how paintings function in a given room.

In the 1960s, Weiner challenged traditional assumptions about the status and nature of art.

He has used radio waves, inert gases, and even telepathy to question traditional assumptions about art and expand its possibilities.

In his latest work he examines what it means to be African American in the 21st century and challenges the traditional assumptions of the creation and performance of blackness today.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Weiner investigated forms of display and distribution that challenge traditional assumptions about the nature of the art object.

This eccentric, undocumented incident marked the beginning of an artistic career that would lay the groundwork for the 1960s conceptual art movement and challenge traditional assumptions about the nature of the art object.

Thus the exhibition serves to question stereotypes, challenge traditional assumptions, and look at issues of racism and anti-Semitism in America.

Like other Conceptual artists who gained international recognition in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Weiner has investigated new forms of display and distribution that challenge our traditional assumptions about the nature of the art object and its relationship with the viewers.

Her bold and experimental work challenges traditional assumptions about figuration and abstraction, as well as the relationships among avant - garde art, craft, pop culture, and technology.

[8] The traditional assumptions regarding an open - ended retainer agreement are challenged by clients seeking value for money and questioning whether they need or can afford a full - representation model.

If we do look only at these two elephants and how they have changed since they were last compared in the 1960s, however, we observe that many of the challenges that accompany creating a court are the same, while investor - state arbitration has been transformed, invalidating traditional assumptions and generating a range of new reform challenges.

We create careers for ambitious people by moving beyond traditional assumptions of what it means to work in talent acquisition.

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But electronic key cards have taken the place of traditional locks and keys due in large part to the assumption of improved security.

But as cord - cutting has eaten into the traditional grip that sports had on the TV business, the assumptions behind those valuations are coming into question.

A common mistake companies make is hiring a sales representative who has performed well in a traditional sales setting on the assumption that they will perform equally well under remote supervision.

A raft of media companies cater specifically to millennials, operating under the assumption that traditional publishers don't do a great job reaching the 20 - something crowd.

One might say that the foregoing argument hinges too much on the assumption of a traditional Last Judgment.

In the parentheses following each of these assumptions, I will contrast them with the assumptions of traditional, psychoanalytically oriented therapies:

The assumption of traditional moralism is that by emphasizing the individual's personal culpability one would make him more responsible and more moral.

Critical New Testament studies, in contrast to the traditional Christian assumption that Jesus was God on earth, have started from the historical Jesus of Nazareth.

Environmental philosophy is a growing subdiscipline within Western philosophy, characterized by the assumption that traditional Western metaphysics and moral theory are inadequate to the solution of environmental problems and that in our age alternative, ecological world views and axiologies are needed.

Dr. King comments on the thoughts of Lorenzo Dow McCabe who attempted to challenge the metaphysical foundations of traditional Christian theology: If theological reconstruction is to meet the needs of philosophy, scriptural exegesis, and religious experience, thought McCabe, then theology must reassess its traditional theistic assumptions in such a way that it can speak of a God who is capable of relating fully to the contingencies of personal life and historical change.

Instead of seeing such traditional readings as naïve or simply wrong, interpreters now ask about the assumptions and values that govern the reading practices of Christian typological and allegorical exegesis and of Rabbinic midrash.

Traditional sexual morality depended on the assumption that human sexuality possessed an objective moral nature and seriousness that all human beings were obliged to respect and that society itself was entitled to protect through law and custom.

Secondly, my understanding of interreligious polemics is not predicated, as some traditional understandings have been, on an assumption of unrevisability and indefeasibility.

The Incarnation (God's assumption of human nature and flesh) and Atonement (the meaning of the death of Jesus) are the two traditional doctrines for expressing this faith.

Recognizing these assumptions about theology and epistemology helps to explain why Protestants in the United States keep repeating traditional ways of thinking about «truth.»

Given, then, the assumption that words are words, how are the words in Scriptures to be approached, as content to be traditional, or as address to be heard and shared?

Clearly, the distinctive assumption of the traditional approach has been refuted.

In contrast, Ford's genetic approach shares with the traditional one the assumption that the whole of Whitehead's metaphysical system can be found completely in Process and Reality.