Such statements may be true in general and for the most part, but they admit of exceptions and are
not necessary truths.
We see a poetic and
necessary truth in the histories and traditions that created our present.
Statements which Hartshorne regards
as necessary truths draw their meaning from his whole system.
But the truth is that it's always the responsibility of a trader to double check and make sure that the broker they have decided to trade with has a valid license and therefore has passed all the necessary
Hartshorne appears to accept the formal / factual dichotomy, 1 thinking of God as belonging to the domain of
necessary truth rather than to the side of fact.
It is not a matter of
discovering necessary truths or grasping unchanging essences, but of being prepared to listen and learn from others, as well as to respond and reconstruct our own views, as we investigate together what it means to be a human being and how this might be brought about through education.
If metaphysics is defined as the human intellect's self - understanding, then metaphysics comprises contingent as well
as necessary truths — although even the contingent truths it comprises are such that in one sense they can not be coherently denied and, therefore, must be believed, if only implicitly or nonreflectively..
But the truth is that it's always the responsibility of a trader to double check and make sure that the broker they have decided to trade with has a valid license and therefore has passed all the necessary
I put only one no in reading Smith's essay, and I suspect it is less a disagreement than a slight forgetting on his part, when he wrote that I assign God «to the domain of formal, pure, or
necessary truth rather than to the side of fact.»
Yes, the earliest manuscripts we have are after His resurrection, but there were earlier writings that were not on durable material, and writings that were destroyed by the Romans and Jewish leaders, but the surviving record captures all
the necessary Truths, even though the Gospels cover only a small fragment of Jesus» activities during His time on earth.
It seemed to be an obvious and
necessary truth that through a point not belonging to a straight line it is possible to draw one and only one line parallel to the given line.
That this is so, furthermore, is
a necessary truth; so I do not think it is possible that there be free creatures some of whom go wrong with respect to at least one action in every world in which they are significantly free.
Is it now a contingent or
a necessary truth that I went to bed at 10:15 P.M. last evening?
That God necessarily loves all things Hartshorne understands as
a necessary truth which metaphysics may demonstrate, whereas that God loves me or any specific creature is a contingent truth which only actual creaturely experience may discover or enjoy.
This is a hard but
necessary truth.
Necessary truths may of course fail to qualify as metaphysical.
«12 Of course, it will not suffice to tell the pure negativist (he who denies that «something exists» is
a necessary truth) that to be is to be known.
They are
necessary truths.
This essential teaching of original Hinduism constitutes a fundamental difference from both Judaism and Christianity, and it may prove to be a hard but
necessary truth for the West to accept.
Quite apart from the claim that this proposition stands as an axiom or
necessary truth — a claim quite contested — that «axiom» he mentioned is nowhere contained in the text of the First Amendment.
She will often go forth and srek out
the necessary truth which may inspire others to do the same.
Then there's Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, and Brian D'Arcy James who are equally impressive as reporters who will stop at nothing to expose the devastating, but
necessary truth.
Respecting physics is one of
the necessary truths of driving fast cars fast.
He recognizes that climate geoengineering could embody a nuclear weapon - like «Dr Strangelove sensibility and an I - am - become - death - the - destroyer - of - worlds hubris» (311) but asserts that «If I thought this was
a necessary truth at the heart of climate geoengineering I would not have written this book» (312).