Sentences with phrase «n't illusory»

Time - space existence, therefore, as the arena of man's contact with the divine, is not a deficient mode of being, it is not illusory.

Such passages as the following seem to suggest that the evidence Whitehead offers for believing that CE is a unique kind of perception and that it is not illusory, i.e., supplies the subject with (more or less) accurate information about its environment, is primarily a particular kind of «experience.»

High expectations are not illusory.

The American Century During the 20th century, while American artists did not generally take the country's integrity for granted, they did tap the rich vein of its mythic virtue with a tacit understanding that it was not all illusory.

Certainly it does, but not with irony: rather, with sober objectivity, for is there any whole that is not illusory?

It was a real space — not illusory — it was a cloud of light in constant flux.

Not exact matches

Advertisers without a roadmap for this uncharted terrain are quickly becoming lost in forests of inaccurate data they can't make sense of or dark caves of illusory tech that yield no light at the end of the tunnel.

A federal appeals court signed off on the U.S. Interior Department's decision to take land into trust for a proposed Native American casino, rejecting arguments that the tribe's promises to mitigate environmental effects are «illusory» because as a sovereign Native American nation, it can not be sued to enforce them.

God is an illusory intermediary created for the definition of things we didn't understand but now we have the ability to see that Atheists are decent people.

Hartshorne's hope that two different and internally consistent metaphysical systems do not exist is illusory.

Sexual freedom and self - expression just can not be bad or dangerous or illusory.

Let us demand that individuals be judged for their concrete actions, not their fealty to arbitrary social norms and illusory categorizations.

The primitive does not give ontological weight to his day - to - day mundane experience; this to him is unreal and illusory.

With hope for the future, not in any illusory «progress of mankind onward and upward forever,» but in the confidence that the issues for time and eternity are in the hands of God, remarkable staying power is generated even in the midst of what appears to be social retrogression.

But in an intemperate and immoral woman, self - esteem can never be more than a posture or an illusory construction that eventually crumbles and collapses into self - contempt; self - contempt which, if it does not find redemption, can lead to despair.

The perspective of history may or may not similarly show this problem too to be illusory.

Moreover, I regard the Incarnation as a historical movement and process; it does not reveal the illusory opposition between God and the world, but rather effects an actual reconciliation between estranged and alienated opposites, between an alien and transcendent form of God that is estranged from the world and a fallen and broken form of the world that is estranged from God.

The theory is needed only to refute those who suppose that common experience must be illusory because it can not be explained philosophically.

It is true that Christians do look beyond the terrible realities of the «here below», but this is not to evade them or to regard them illusory.

The fall is not a once and for all event, it is an eternal process, an eternal round of darkness and horror, even though that horror has assumed the illusory light of a fallen sun.

Christians can not escape into a false mysticism or an illusory transcendentalism, where the affairs and needs of their brothers and sisters are left «here below».

If we allow Blake's apocalyptic vision to stand witness to a radical Christian faith, there are at least seven points from within this perspective at which we can discern the uniqueness of Christianity: (1) a realization of the centrality of the fall and of the totality of fallenness throughout the cosmos; (2) the fall in this sense can not be known as a negative or finally illusory reality, for it is a process or movement that is absolutely real while yet being paradoxically identical with the process of redemption; and this because (3) faith, in its Christian expression, must finally know the cosmos as a kenotic and historical process of the Godhead's becoming incarnate in the concrete contingency of time and space; (4) insofar as this kenotic process becomes consummated in death, Christianity must celebrate death as the path to regeneration; (5) so likewise the ultimate salvation that will be effected by the triumph of the Kingdom of God can take place only through a final cosmic reversal; (6) nevertheless, the future Eschaton that is promised by Christianity is not a repetition of the primordial beginning, but is a new and final paradise in which God will have become all in all; and (7) faith, in this apocalyptic sense, knows that God's Kingdom is already dawning, that it is present in the words and person of Jesus, and that only Jesus is the «Universal Humanity,» the final coming together of God and man.

This is why he pursued not only the grandees of church history (Athanasius, Anselm, Luther) but also those harried, illusory, and sometimes downright weird participants in the community of faith.

Where such a reality (as spelt out in 1) does not exist, either practically or experienced as such by those living in an illusory construction of the present («our inviolable shores» ideology) the talk of peace tends to take on impractical («brotherhood and sisterhood of all humankind») and essentialized («the global village») colours.

To be sure, the illusory wants are wants in the sense that they do exist, but they are judged as not having measured up to whatever standard the speaker has in mind.

Yet he was also aware, in a way that many post-moderns are not, that no one can completely break with the past; any claim that one has done so is illusory.

The reality of death is not denied in an illusory way.

All immediacy, in spite of its illusory peace and tranquillity, is dread, and hence, quite consistently, it is dread of nothing; one can not make immediacy so anxious by the most horrifying description of the most dreadful something, as by a crafty, apparently casual half word about an unknown peril which is thrown out with the surely calculated aim of reflection; yea, one can put immediacy most in dread by slyly imputing to it knowledge of the matter referred to.

In order to answer such questions we must remember that the insight into the unreality of everything that exists — even the Buddhas, the beings who belong to them, and the Teaching are illusory — is not intended for everyone.

The figure of Don Juan is an imaginative impossibility in our time because he comes from a period in which the human being was understood not merely as a biological machine, generated randomly out of the incessant flux of an aleatory universe, but as a radiant and terrible enigma, dangerously and daringly poised between beast and angel, hell and heaven, the elemental abyss and the infinite God: a period in which it was still just possible to believe that human freedom was not merely the all - but - illusory residue of a random confluence of mindless physical forces and organic mechanisms, but a glimpse of the transcendent within the world of matter.

Insofar as CE is perception of past and therefore actual events, it is not necessarily illusory.

The fact that all macrocausation is to be regarded as supervenient, and thereby as epiphenomenal, Kim has insisted, does not mean that it is illusory or unreal.

Pope Emeritus Benedict repeatedly reminded his listeners that the church's Hellenic philosophical impetus can not be sliced off from an illusory pristine Gospel.

He began to struggle for his OWN survival, at the expense of his neighbor, even if this survival could be only temporary (and therefore illusory), since «death reigned from Adam to Moses, even upon those who did not sin as Adam did» (Rom.

First, they were socially illusory, since America was not just one culture, but a federation of many.

This is not mere pessimism, nor an indifferent attitude to social and political aspirations of humanity, but an appeal to give up the illusory hopes of human beings.

In this claim Wang was indeed asserting a diversity in the universe; he did not claim with Parmenides and Bradley that Being is one and diversity is somehow illusory; more to the historical point, he was not asserting a Buddhistic version of diversity as illusion.

I may be blocked or unconscious or dumb, but in my six decades I have not experienced the notion that what is ``... not in alignment with Love is completely illusory.»

In truth, it can be argued that even Parmenides treated change and motion at least as «appearances,» as belonging at least to the illusory realm of phenomena and not as mere non-entities; otherwise the division of his poem into two parts — «The Way of Truth» and «The Way of Opinion» — would lose its meaning.

According to Laplace, time is merely the fourth dimension of space, as static as the other three dimensions; its apparent incompleteness is illusory, being merely, as Bergson observed, «the infirmity of a mind that can not know everything at once (Bergson 1944, p. 45).

Even when the learner has most completely appropriated the condition, and most profoundly apprehended the Truth, he can not forget this Teacher, or let him vanish Socratically, although this is far more profound than illusory sentimentality or untimely pettiness of spirit.

Having pointed out the failure of Hasker's various attempts to show the apparent advantage of process theism with regard to moral evil to be illusory, I turn to his attempt to show the same with regard to natural evil, understood as evil not caused by human agents.

The result is unmistakable, however; the arithmetic relationship at with Bergson arrives here is presented by him not as illusory but as having an objective basis.

It is not merely a subjective need, but rather a need so completely interwoven throughout our rational, moral, spiritual, and sensible nature that if it is illusory, then we are comprehensively false, we are creatures of mauvaise foi.

It is by no means clear why this egalitarian Eden, which relies wholly on human will power, is less illusory — especially in this blood - soaked century when human capacity is unmasked — than the Jewish apocalyptic hope for the coming of God's kingdom.The value of these books is not in what they say about Jesus so much as in what their saying these things prompts one to think about.

It's quite possible that Luka Modrić, Toni Kroos and Isco will decide that they don't fancy giving up possession much and we'll be left chasing split - second holograms of the ball; illusory imprints of where it used to be.

«I can not overstate the urgency of the need for all parties to come together to negotiate a realistic, responsible budget that addresses our state's fiscal issues, distributes education aid equitably and balances without the use of illusory gimmicks,» he wrote.

Yet this is not always true, as you will see from d. Notice the vertical illusory strip running through the parallel horizontal lines.

First, the PhD student does not only require the ability to turn «suspension of disbelief» into an art form beyond the illusory skills of our most eminent Shakespearean actors; he or she must also retain the ability to remain as cynical and as hard - bitten as Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca.

Pathological gamblers «see» patterns in things that are actually quite random and not really there, to such a degree that they are quite willing to impulsively bet good money on such illusory nonrandomness.