Sentences with phrase «not necessary truths»

Which is to say «truth» might be nothing more than a meme — an arbitrary judgement which merely reflects dominant beliefs, not necessary truth.

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If we're going to save our children's futures, it's going to be up to us to tell the truth, make the necessary changes — and hope it's not too late.

In truth, even with those products designed to be used with a shaving brush, it's actually not necessary, but it will result in a better lather with less cream.

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.

They also argue that the amnesty the South African government granted to perpetrators of human rights under apartheid in exchange for their testimony before the Truth Commission compromised justice and could be defended only if it were necessary for a transition to democracy, not by any idea of reconciliation.

They used to remember thinking but now it's no longer necessary and with the enriched water it is no longer possible after the cataclysmic campaigns of the last decade when it was decided that facts no longer mattered so therefore truth no longer existed so therefore thinking was no longer necessary but in fact futile so therefore not only sterile but dangerous and therefore behavior alone was substantial and adherence to action alone was useful.

... oh, that's right... you don't need to see something to believe in it... you believe because you believe... no reason or rhyme is necessary... once you formulated your opinion, it must be the truth - no need to back up your own words... go back to your cave

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.

Even if it were necessary to kill his victims — not that it was, of course — the wild excess of the harm he and the Jacobins inflicted reveals the moral truth.

Its called fuzzy logic, the idea that since people are rational but almost always don't have all the necessary information to make a perfectly logical conclusion, the resulting truths are always assailable.

But a more basic necessity than the evolutionary view of truth is the adoption of an evolutionary view of the universe, because without it belief can not be shown to be intrinsic to the world and hence necessary; it can only be superadded.

The gift of papal infallibility flows not from our need for certainty, but from God's desire that we know with certitude those truths necessary for our salvation.

Up to this point we have established the fact that inherent in the deliberations of reason is the subjective and predictive factor, that reason is hypothesis - making, that, in short, it makes acts of belief, and that in order to attain truth, belief as hypothesis - making is not only reasonable but necessary.

And it is not necessary to blunder around in the dark wondering how to find out about truth, nor do we need to follow the example of the ruler who asked, with a mixture of cynicism and real sadness, «What is truth?»

Analogically, «fairy stories» encapsulate metaphysical truths or speculations: Perhaps that there is no necessary «logical» connection between cause and effect, or that the universe is not, after all, homogenous and subject everywhere to the very same natural laws.

The interpretation that is commonly accepted is that the spirit is necessary but not sufficient to lead us into truth.

Both these moral commands are logically prior to, and thus not derived from, the events and texts themselves, for in order to extract truth from them, obedience to these moral commands is a necessary precondition.

Thus, while strictly speaking, the conjunction of a contingent statement — that oppression is real — with a metaphysically necessary statement — that God is G - of - A — yields what is technically another contingent statement — that God is G - of - O; there is a certain undeniable ineluctability about the truth that if oppression is real, then God can not fail to be G - of - O, which compels me to indicate its ineluctable character by saying that it is «restrictive yet necessary» (and here necessary does not mean metaphysical necessity).

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..

As I say, the new declaration says nothing that is not said in other magisterial documents, particularly in the teaching of the Second Vatican Council, and it is always necessary to restate these important truths.

Societies acceptance of prostitution as a necessary part of who we are as human beings, is nothing more than ignoring the truth that we do not see the prostitute as a victim, and even if we did, we would say it's their own fault.

The Catholic writer understands the necessary relationship between truth and beauty, which is not mere social convention or cultural accident but an essential form of human knowledge — intuitive, holistic, and experiential.

Scientific reason, if accurate, was valid, but it was not the only valid kind of reasoning: noncontradiction, validity, truth, value, meaning, purpose, and obligation were necessary presuppositions of the scientific method but not themselves scientific phenomena.

I challenge any Christian to offer one truth, just one major doctrinal necessary truth that every person has to KNOW in order to be a Christian (since truths should be known, for truth does not need to be believed).

Hence, new qualities that emerge are not merely empirical qualities of new «occasions,» they are also «eternal objects,» belonging to a world of what Plato called forms or ideas; they are both immanent and transcendent: «Here Alexander inclines towards an empiricist tradition... which identifies that which is known with the fleeting sense - datum of the moment; Whitehead, with his mathematical training, represents a rationalist tradition which identifies that which is known with necessary and eternal truths.

We take Anselm's reflections concerning divine perfection and necessary existence to have demonstrated a symmetrical truth: if God could possibly exist, he must; but if God could possibly not exist, then his existence is forever impossible.

Although Whitehead makes the necessary gestures toward true propositions and even truth itself, he is adamant in maintaining that the real import of a proposition in the process view of the world is that it be interesting, not true (AI 244; PR 224/343, 259 / 395f).

It is not a question of «attacking the Bishops» but of calling for a necessary regrouping in the face of an unprecedented onslaught on the truth of our human nature.

As Hartshorne says: «It is the only way to combine with» out contradiction, the assertions: God knows all the truth, and, not all truths are necessary.»

These histories of domination and oppression can not be determined in apriori, necessary, or mechanical manners, but only through the attentive and intelligent aposteriori praxis of reason committed to the values of justice, truth, and freedom.

It must be stressed, however, that it is not necessary to refute Darwinism on scientific grounds in order to maintain the religious truth claims expressed in the biblical account of history: e.g., God's sovereignty and creative initiative, man's free will, his unique dignity in the universe, and his supernatural end.

Now I take it that Hartshorne would grant the truth of the hypothetical that «if it can be conceived that no universe may exist then it is not necessary that any universe exists.»

For this will be already included in what we will know A nonexistent but coherently conceivable deity is not even a possibility, but only the disjunction: either the necessary falsity (logical absurdity) or the necessary truth of the idea of God.

It is necessary that there be not only a statement but an account of a fact serving to prove an opinion or a truth.

For far from being a deviation from biblical truth, this setting of man over against the sum total of things, his subject - status and the object - status and mutual externality of things themselves, are posited in the very idea of creation and of man's position vis - a-vis nature determined by it: it is the condition of man meant in the Bible, imposed by his createdness, to be accepted, acted through... In short, there are degrees of objectification... the question is not how to devise an adequate language for theology, but how to keep its necessary inadequacy transparent for what is to be indicated by it...» Hans Jonas, Phenomenon of Life, pp. 258 - 59; cf. also Schubert Ogden's helpful discussion on «Theology and Objectivity,» Journal of Religion 45 (1965): 175 - 95; Ian G. Barbour, Issues in Science and Religion (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice - Hall, 1966), pp. 175 - 206; and Michael Polanyi, Personal Knowledge (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962).

It remains only to say that alteration of the wording of much of Christian worship, with the eradication of sub-Christian ideas that have been allowed over the centuries to creep in and still remain to deform worship, and with the necessary implementation of the traditional rites by new vistas of divine truth that have been vouchsafed to later ages, not least our own, is an urgent task for today's Christian fellowship.

To observe them it is necessary to note that it was not simply a telescoping of two incompatible ideas; it was an assertion of two basic truths, both so indispensable that neither one could be surrendered then, or ought to be surrendered now.

When he states that the truth or plausibility of the statements used to defend theistic belief in the face of evil «are utterly beside the point,» he is saying that the truth or plausibility of such statements is not necessary to preserve logical consistency, and this even Griffin does not deny is correct.

The contrast, which out of concern for the truth I have found it necessary to draw between the courageous and joyful primitive Christian hope of the resurrection of the dead and the serene philosophic expectation of the survival of the immortal soul, has displeased not only many sincere Christians in all Communions and of all theological outlooks, but also those whose convictions, while not outwardly alienated from Christianity, are more strongly moulded by philosophical considerations.

Be mindful of the truth that chaste friendships are not only possible but necessary in a chaste Christian life and in doing so provide encouragement to one another in forming and sustaining them.

«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.

To a philosopher, predictive strength is not sufficient — though perhaps necessary — in the pursuit of truth.

But now the truth ascertained by the process of probating the hypothesis certainly would not be apriori, even if the truths are about universal and necessary conditions.

It should be noted, however, that that doctrine is a necessary but not sufficient condition for the truth of that position, as I read it.

Sure, not every article will be of interest (yet) to our younger readers, but there is sure to be a thought - provoking article in every issue, a blog post worthy of perusing and reposting on Facebook or Twitter, a poem — something that will catch their eye and remind them that the Truth is worth loving and, when necessary, worth fighting for.

For it is not necessary, on my view, for the asserter of a religious assertion to believe in the truth of the story involved in the assertions: what is necessary is that the story should be entertained in thought....

Accordingly, Hartshorne defines metaphysics as «the search for necessary and categorial truth» and describes metaphysical truths as those which no experience can contradict and which any experience must illustrate.4 In a helpful article on this subject, Hartshorne elaborates: «Metaphysics, in an old phrase, explores «being qua being,» or reality qua reality, meaning by this, the strictly universal features of existential possibility, those which can not be unexemplified»; and he gives as an example of such a necessary truth the affirmation that «experience as creative process occurs.

While we can not compromise on Gospel truth, it is necessary for us to understand the kinds of intellectual and cultural influences Millennials are experiencing.

Martin weighs the merits of his «all truths are timeless,» or can be so formulated without loss of truth, against what he takes to be my view (for no reason in my writings that I can see) that all are time - bound; he ignores the moderate or less extreme view that some (namely, truths about extremely universal and abstract, eternal and necessary things, including the essential structure of time as such) are timeless, and others (those about less universal and abstract, also non-eternal and contingent things) are time - bound, but this not in every way a careless thinker might suppose but in a definite and logically intelligible way.

Now if the learner is to acquire the Truth, the Teacher must bring it to him; and not only so, but he must also give him the condition necessary for understanding it.