Sentences with phrase «merely by our existence»

Of course, the existence of Zeus also is «proven merely by our existence and consciousness and the beauty and order of Creation all around us»

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A convinced Platonist, at least with regard to the existence of mathematical laws, Davies rejects the cultural view of mathematics merely as a language created by man to describe the natural world; and like his colleague Roger Penrose (one of the foremost theoreticians on black holes) he flatly asserts that mathematical laws have an existence of their own:

Indeed, the ITC - which recently even questioned the existence of limbo and thus, by implication, the necessity of baptism to enter heaven - forms no part of the Magisterium but is merely an advisory body.

He will not require not merely that the new knowledge be used as the foundation of the proof, but that the very spirit and atmosphere of the new knowledge enter in such a way into thedemonstration of God's existence, that the complexities and confusions of human thought engendered by the new knowledge shall be resolved in harmonious unity in the postulate of God's existence, nature, and relation to created being.

Man does not of course live by bread alone; he merely continues his physical existence with some concomitant mental phenomena.

I do not believe it is merely by chance that all cultures assume the existence of something that might be called the «Memory of Being,» in which everything is constantly recorded, and that they assume the related existence of supra - personal authorities or principles that not only transcend man but to which he constantly relates, and which are the sole, final explanation of a phenomenon as particular as human responsibility.

A typical Hartshornian restatement of Anselm's argument in the language of modern modal logic runs about like this: Since God is by definition not conceivably surpassable, and since a being whose existence is necessary surpasses one whose existence is merely contingent, therefore, God's existence must be necessary existence.

Our identification with the death of Christ, it maintains, is not merely a present event, but a present event controlled by a real event of the past — i.e. the dying of Christ: «Bultmann takes over from Heidegger the concept of existence, and uses it to describe the stripping away of illusions and the consequent entry into the authentic human existence.

Although Lincoln is often praised for this remark by those who oppose the mixing of religion and politics, it contains three of the most controversial ideas in American politics: that it is legitimate to invoke the name of God within the realm of political discourse; that God's existence isn't merely symbolic, but that he is always right; and that since God takes sides on certain issues, some people will be divinely justified while others will stand in opposition not only to their political opponents but to the very Creator and Sustainer of the Universe.

The idea was for him to merely force the Democrats to spend money to defend a seat that was then drawn out of existence by the GOP).

Rather, its existence is merely propagated by an entity known only as SIE (in this context THEY or THEM, not the polite form of YOU), which has conspired with authorities to create the illusion of the city's existence.

He maintained that «plaintiffs alleging equal protection violations must prove intent and causation and not merely the existence of racial disparity,» and that «public schooling, even in the South, should be controlled by locally elected authorities acting in conjunction with parents, and that it is desirable to permit pupils to attend schools nearest their homes.»

The belief in the mystical and never observed power of carbon dioxide to increase the temperature of an object merely by surrounding it, is akin to the belief in the power of orgone, or the existence of N Rays.

all costs rendered necessary by defects of material workmanship, design, plan, or specification, and should damage occur to any portion of the Insured Property containing any of the said defects the cost of replacement or rectification which is hereby excluded is that cost which would have been incurred if replacement or rectification of the Insured Property had been put in hand immediately prior to the said damage.For the purpose of this policy and not merely this exclusion it is understood and agreed that any portion of the Insured Property shall not be regarded as damaged solely by virtue of the existence of any defect of material workmanship, design, plan or specification.

Beyond merely acknowledging the existence of the Mi» kmaq treaty right to a «limited» commercial fishery, the Marshall decision reaffirms a commitment by the Court, articulated previously in cases such as Sparrow, Van der Peet, Badger and Delgamuukw, to look to the aboriginal perspective when interpreting historically based claims by a First Nation against the Crown.