A substance comes into being by
means of that event which establishes its essence, i.e., an enduring object comes into being by means of the initial member occasion of that society which first constitutes its defining characteristic.
Not exact matches
The wedding
event of the year is only two months away,
which means Meghan Markle is probably putting the final touches on her special day.
That has
meant a wave
of demand for services such as Dataminr,
which applies advanced analytics to the entire Twitter «fire hose» to detect
events likely to move the market.
Forty - six states plus Washington, D.C., have data breach notification laws,
which means you must proactively inform your customers in the
event of a breach involving their information.
During the
event, a strict regime
of «food hygiene» was in place throughout portions
of the city,
which meant street stores and vendors selling street food had been shut down.
There was a Google - sponsored concert in Singapore featuring star DJ Paul Oakenfold, a Cisco
event at
which Lightwave data determined the winner
of a pitch competition, and a TED conference at
which Lightwave compared attendees» self - perceptions with their responses to video scenes
meant to evoke feelings like fear and compassion.
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This market may also have liquidity issues,
meaning that it may be hard to find a buyer during a negative market
event —
which could lead to price volatility or make it hard to determine a fair price for one
of these securities.
Risk is randomness in
which events have measurable probabilities, wrote economist Frank Knight in 1921 in
Meaning of Risk and Uncertainty.1 Probabilities may be attained either by deduction (using theoretical models) or induction (using the observed frequency
of events).
The TIDE serves as the HUB
of activity for the ecosystem,
which means that members have access to
events, introductions to investors, and access to mentors and global networks.
In practice, that
means that the Fund would quickly and almost invariably lose at least 1 - 2 % in the
event of a substantial market decline, at
which point I would expect the put options beneath the portfolio to reduce the impact
of market fluctuations on the portfolio.
Maximus the Confessor interprets this
event as a moment in
which the disciples passed from flesh to spirit because «having both their bodily and spiritual senses purified, they were taught the spiritual
meanings of the mysteries that were shown to them.»
There are no precedents by
which to discern its
meaning, hence the readiness
of some Christians to apply the ancient words
of the prophets to
events in our time.
What this
means is that time is not some primordial container — an infinite bucket
of moments — in
which certain
events happen.
Thus no
event can realize the full potential
of any ideal or group
of ideals, and still less the full potential
of antecedent occasions from
which their historical
meaning was derived.
If «Genesis is «true» as a long poetic metaphor» then the actual
event of eating
of some fruit that was forbidden did not happen and thus there was no inherrited sin and thus no need for a ransom sacrafice from some savior
which means the entire bible falls flat on its face.
The second and third
meanings inapplicable to historical
events in the past have to do with modes
of presence in
which something other than one's own subjectivity is present to that subjectivity.
I grieve for a lost opportunity whenever I attend a baptism in
which the preacher fails to preach on the
meaning of the
event.
Contemporary methodology has not discontinued these methods in its new understanding
of history, but has merely shifted them more decidedly from ends to
means It is true that the «explanation»
of an
event or viewpoint does not consist merely in showing its external causes or identifying the source from
which an idea was borrowed.
But we can say at least this: the essential
meaning of the concept
of the miraculous, as this has been used in traditional theology, is grounded in the keen awareness men have
of the unexpected and unprecedented experiences and happenings, the novel and hence the unusually stimulating
events or circumstances
of life, through
which men in every age have been aroused to faith in God and have been given a deepening conviction
of his love and care.
For the historical
event of the rise
of the Easter faith
means for us what it
meant for the first disciples — namely, the self - attestation
of the risen Lord, the act
of God in
which the redemptive
event of the cross is completed.
Even assuming that Jesus» grave was known,
which is by no
means certain, it seems very possible that neither party was interested in it, or regarded the truth
of Easter as dependent on it, until long after the
event: until the period
of the controversies reflected in Matthew,
which would not arise until the empty tomb had become important in Christian thought about the Resurrection.
Here, we apply the «ontological principle»
which, in this context,
means that history must not only be interpreted either by reason or by communication, but in the light
of the «diachron transcendence»
of passed and future
events.
In any
event, the biblical words that are translated «miracle» in most
of our English versions
mean «sign» (semeion), manifestation
of divine energy (dunamis), and that
which surprises us and makes us wonder (terrha).
Again, theologians who are persuaded
of their usefulness in conveying theological
meaning to the contemporary mind may have gone so far as to claim emergent evolution to be a theological symbol by
which biblical
events of history as well as subsequent doctrinal formulations may be explicated.
This does not
mean that it is a Word
which is simply present in a sacred
event of the past, nor does it
mean that it is merely addressed to historical
events, or confined to an historical realm.
Because
of God's transcendence it would be mythological to refer to God's action in terms appropriate only to objects available, in principle at least, to ordinary sense perception.13 This especially
means that one can not speak
of God in terms
of the categories
of time and space; 14 i.e., whatever is predicated
of God can not apply only to some particular time and space, but must apply equally to all times and spaces.15 Thus the implication
of Ogden's criterion for non-mythological language about God corresponds to his statement
of several years ago, that «there is not the slightest evidence that God has acted in Christ in any way different from the way in
which he primordially acts in every other
event.
This could
mean putting an end to the classic youth group model that so many
of us grew up with, the model in
which teenagers participate in their own worship, their own Bible studies, their own social
events, their own outreach activities, their own missions trips, and so on.
This «uniqueness» does not just
mean a unique «intuitive experience»
of God, but the «historical
event» by
which the intuition appears within the world.
Thus, «universal, but concrete effectiveness» can take place by
means of «hybrid prehensions»
of passed
events regarding their identity, forming novelty («mentality») in an immediacy
of actualization,
which can not sufficiently be attained by any physical causality.
The problem here is to overcome the «benumbing repression
of common sense» (PR 9/13) so that
events which have become commonplace can come to be experienced with new
meaning, when viewed in the light
of an imagined contrast.
Unlike most contemporary philosophers, who restrict their examination
of induction to the modern sense
of the term, in
which it is construed as a method
of inference
which permits some prediction
of future
events on the basis
of past
events, Whitehead also recognizes the importance
of the ancient
meaning of induction.
Archeology has only been able to confirm historical
events back to the phrase «The House
of David»
which means that there's nothing to back up claims about Adam, the Flood, Abraham, Moses, the Exodus, or the invasion
of Canaan.
That an
event moves toward its final cause (
which is its subjective aim)...
means that it has a «vector character,» that it is a passage from immediacy
of the present into the future.
I do not elsewhere «skewer» conservatives for their devotion to the founders» intentions because
of its resemblance to the principle
of sola scriptura — I note this mostly as a bemused observation — but because, apparently unlike Reilly, I do not subscribe to a «Great Man» view
of historical agency and historiography in
which the mens auctoris provides the definitive key to the
meaning of texts or historical
events.
While he is surely right in affirming that the God
of Israel and
of the Christian faith is identified by temporal
events such as the Exodus and the Resurrection, as well as by Jesus addressing Him as Father (
which in turn identifies Jesus as Son), this does not clarify the
meaning of the predicate «God» as it is applied to the God
of Israel.
Because
of the limited perspective from
which every historical interpretation is carried out, no single
event can be seen to embody or express the ultimate
meaning or direction
of history in a way that the historical interpreter can know with finality.
Now it is exactly in situations like this — according to the standard account
of orthodox Whiteheadians — that God is supposed to lure the world, by
means of what he proffers to actual occasions via subjective aims, toward that falling out
of events which will make his future experience most positive.
Philosophy (
which means love
of wisdom) I thought it wise to accept the fact that there is someone greater than I that could have made all that has happened in the natural course
of events.
«11 By
means of a process or an
event (it is difficult to define it precisely), one who by all odds could otherwise claim epistemological privilege becomes aware
of a complete reversal
of the notion
of «privilege» finds that an extraordinary kind
of truthfulness (
which is not «objectivity») attaches to the «partial» perspective glimpsed from the vantage
of the struggle
of the poor, the discriminated - against, the forgotten - about.
Christianity is a dialectically monotheistic faith in
which the nature and purposes
of the Ultimate are illumined by historical
events culminating, though by no
means terminating, in the life, death and resurrection
of the Jewish teacher Jesus, called by faith the Christ.
Without trying to clarify this difference, we will proceed at once to show that the tension between concrete
event as unique and a decisive bearer
of meaning and the infinity in
which the definite is overwhelmed is very much an issue today.
For Buber the
meaning of the symbol is found not in its universality but in the fact that it points to a concrete
event which witnesses just as it is, in all its concreteness, transitoriness, and uniqueness, to the relation with the Absolute.
Whatever may have been the actual course
of events, historically speaking,
which the New Testament
means to signify when it speaks
of the resurrection
of Jesus Christ, it is at least clear that it was the conviction
of the New Testament writers, building on the testimony
of the disciples after the crucifixion
of Jesus — as it has been the continuing conviction
of millions
of Christian people since that time — that far from Jesus» being «put out
of the way» by his death at the hands
of the Roman authorities in Palestine, he was «let loose into the world.»
What does it
mean for therapy if we understand that each occasion
of the client's experience is a coming together
of the world in a new
event, one
which culminates in a decision?
This historical evolutionism is a distortion
of reality whether it leans toward the idealist side and emphasizes the suprahistorical
meaning which is revealed in history or toward the empirical side and emphasizes the never - ceasing flow and relativity
of all
events.
Of further significance, however, are the changes in the overarching symbolic environment within
which these activities are taking place and the
meanings which this environment imposes on life's
events.
By the italicized this in the last sentence I
mean to indicate Jesus Christ himself in the integrity
of the
event which we designate when we name him.
The word «miracle» is usually understood to
mean any astonishing, extraordinary, inexplicable
event which is regarded as signifying the activity
of divine agencies.