Sentences with phrase «mean is a meaningless»

So even the meaning is meaningless.

The function does not decay to zero, but to 21.7 ppm - so calculating a mean is meaningless - although it is clear from my reading that slower processes which operate over thousands of years have been ignored in the equation.

Consequently their mean is a meaningless quantity, as is their mutual variance.

Not exact matches

When Harper first ran for prime minister in 2004, his name was so meaningless to Canadians that he sought to pour meaning into it with those issue - based television ads that ended with the oddly insistent «My name is Stephen Harper» tag.

3) admitting you believe existence to be meaningless at its core, meaningless throughout, and yet we are supposed to fabricate meaning & «just get on with it»... not only is that utterly self - contradictory but it sounds like you saying: «yep, just live life with your head in the sand.»

and instead of regarding our perception (of existence) as broken, it affirms that existence was not meant to be so baldly meaningless.

To believe with all your heart that everything in life is ultimately meaningless and purposeless, but to act like it does have both meaning and purpose is contradictory behavior.

Questions about purpose become meaningless since there is no longer an intelligence or guiding hand giving inherent meaning to anything that occurs in nature.

They don't really know what they mean, and it is MEANINGLESS.

If the point of the journey is just to be on a journey, then everyone's life is just as meaningful / meaningless and we are still left with no one having meaning in their lives.

If by God is meant the Ground of Being, the Essence of Being, the Absolute, the Weltgeist, and all similar expressions, the reply is still No, for according to Schweitzer such terms «denote nothing actual, but something conceived in abstractions which for that reason is also absolutely meaningless» (The Philosophy of Civilization [Macmillan, 1949], p. 304).

It is the same thing with the superst!tions around sports, or carrying a lucky rabbits foot... people convince themselves these meaningless things have meaning.

If I say, «If God sent everyone to hell he would still be loving» that means that God's love is without effect, and it depends on our response... meaningless to humanity but meaningful to God.

If Paul really means that those who are dead in sin can not believe in Jesus, then the rest of his argument in the chapter and the letter become meaningless and senseless.

The problem for me was that the idea of tikkun olam has become so hackneyed an idea, filled with the eisegetical meaning from well - intentioned political activists, that it has become meaningless.

But if life has no meaning, your murder & my rotting in jail is meaningless.

So with our revised definition of meaning, most decisions you make are meaningless, meaning most of your life is meaningless.

If «bipartisan» means that SOME of one party voted with the other party, then «bipartisan» would apply to nearly every bill in history and would be meaningless.

I'm sorry if their feelings are meaningless to you, or that you somehow need more to give your life meaning.

Thus it is meaningless to call the Kingdom of God the «highest value,» if by this is meant the culmination of all that men consider good.

Each is meaningless and unreal apart from the other, and it is only the conjunction or coincidentia of both together that creates or is the ground of what appears to us as meaning and reality.

We wish to God that baptism were meaningless, because it proclaims and gives a meaning which cuts to the core the selfish, materialistic values of our consumer culture.

It can not mean «other than» nor «separate from» nor even «an alteration of» the old, since without the old (as the old is) to contrast with the newness, newness is meaningless; the «actual [ized] world is not destroyed.

Husserl's doctrine of hyletic data, that consciousness freely imposes its meaning on a meaningless stuff, is rejected by many latter - day phenomenologists.

I mean, I could say that, but it is meaningless to others.

With them we have «meaning - discovery» rather than Sinngebung; with them there is a world pregnant with form and meaning rather than meaningless hyletic data.

Some basic statement like, «Accept Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and savior and you will be saved from your sins» is meaningless in any real sense unless the preacher says something about what he means by Jesus Christ.

And what do you even mean by «objective compassion», that is literally a meaningless concept to me.

If this is an experience seemingly of unqualified catastrophe for Israel, if it is a return to an existence formless and meaningless, it nevertheless had its own kind of order and meaning.

To the thousands who were reached and electrified by his words it meant the difference between the suffering of a meaningless fate and the liberating insight into the ultimate triumph of Jewish spirit which knows no defeat....

Things were meaningless whose meaning had always been self - evident.

But his habitual response to any concept whose meaning he has not taken the time to learn is to dismiss it as meaningless, with the sort of truculent affectation of contempt that suggests he really knows, at some level, that he is out of his depth.

Even when we see someone who feels that his life is meaningless and as a result contemplates and may even commit suicide, there remains that hidden sense of meaning — for to be a suicide is to say that at least in this way, if in no other, I may act out meaningfully what I think is worth doing.

Hence, obedience to the individual demands, however meaningless they might be in themselves, took on the character of moral virtue, because it meant obedience to the will of God.

It was quickly pointed out that this would mean that a statement such as «the moon is made of green cheese» is meaningless.

In any case, even if it could be shown that in ordinary language we make no reference to non-being, that would hardly mean that it is a meaningless notion.

There was no forgetting, no Korsakov's then, nor did it seem possible or imaginable that there should be; for he was no longer at the mercy of a faulty and fallible mechanism — that of meaningless sequences and memory traces — but was absorbed in an act, an act of his whole being, which carried feeling and meaning in an organic continuity and unity, a continuity and unity so seamless it could not permit any break.

One of my favorite atheist behaviors is to deny that there's any goal or purpose or meaning in life, and to challenge us to «be strong enough to put that archaic stuff behind you», and then they claim life isn't meaningless, though, b / c they can create their own meaning!

Organized religions are often meaningless because they try to confine this something larger and greater in terms that only mean something in our simpler universe.

And that is much more useful than David simply providing a new definition for two reasons: he's seeking not necessarily to redefine, but to challenge already existing inconsistencies between our use of the words and how people actually function, AND because such terms are given their meaning collectively so redefining it alone would be meaningless because it wouldn't draw on people's real experience with their beliefs and views of the labels.

And this means, if we are not to regard the world as having become suddenly meaningless and contradictory, that we are entitled to attribute the value of experimental and physical reality to everything, within us and around us, which shows itself to be a necessary condition for the preservation and heightening in Man of his powers of invention and purposive thinking.

Without Christ, man is meaningless; without man, all life besides is meaningless; without life the earth is meaningless; but all things have meaning in Jesus Christ, to whom all things are relative, through whom all things consist, of whom all things bear witness in their being.

Either that, or the concept of explanation, if it is not to become meaningless, takes on a different sense which includes the possibility of explaining that which is most known by means of what is equally well or even less known, whenever it happens that an explanation of the one is the only possible explanation of the other.

and if one claims life is meaningless, but then feels the need to fabricate meaning... which is broken: existence or us?

if not having god in your life means a meaningless life well again all i see is a less then true love of life and a yearning for death.

again, if existence is meaningless, why feel the need to fabricate meaning — even (if not especially) on a local scale?

A social conservative he ain't, but that doesn't mean the Trump bomb is meaningless for social conservatives.

Prevalent judgmentalism, brain - dead pew potatoes simply doing the Holy Hokie Pokie cause the Pastor says to, and the phony baloney meaningless religious lingo that means absolutely nothing, are just 3 reasons.

Incoherence means a lack of relation, an isolation of elements or factors, in such a way that unrelated things, in this relationship of being unrelated, are meaningless.

It's not that they cross is just some necessary step to accomplishing some religious plan of salvation — an abstract scheme that leaves Jesus politically meaningless... It is a completely different way to view the world, success, and the meaning of history.»