Sentences with phrase «not on analogies»

Historical understanding must be based on direct contact, not on analogies.

Particulars are to be conceived, not on the analogy of bricks in a building, but rather on the analogy of notes in a symphony.

Not exact matches

Students might not be swimming in cash or connections, but the very fact that they aren't established yet in full lives with mortgages, kids and car payments is actually a huge advantage, according to Feld, who reflected on the sandbox analogy in his post:

«A baseball team entirely composed of catchers could have high esprit de corps,» Ellison offered as an analogy, «but it would not perform very well on the field.»

Since you already used a restaurant example, let me continue with the analogy: we're serving tasty food to an ever increasing number of satisfied, loyal customers and making enough money on every meal served to pay back original investment in fixed overhead by next year (those faux - egyptian obelisks didn't come cheap).

Think about it — using the analogy of an open house — why leave your trash on the front lawn, not fix the fence, and neglect a new paint job?

But this mythology is based on false analogies, not economic reality.

It is not a perfect analogy but — except, of course, for the part in which analyses that use the number of bookshops as a proxy for literacy are widely ridiculed — it is nonetheless similar to what happens when the health of the Chinese economy is measured by the reported GDP data, or when second - order measures, such as the dependence of Chinese growth on debt, is estimated by looking at credit growth in relation to GDP growth.

That's the takeaway from everything we've ever heard from the governor and which was reinforced in Poloz's most recent analogy on the matter — comparing the rate cut to life - saving surgery, and saying that you don't worry about possible side effects at a time like that

Left dismissed a bullish argument for ether — that its price will grow because entrepreneurs can issue tokens and build decentralized applications on top of the ethereum blockchain — using the analogy that Oracle doesn't own part of the businesses that run on its own servers.

I'm not sure that the analogy holds up on the level of tactics.

to go with the wife analogy, sure you don't have any evidence that she hasn't cheated on you, but you probably have a huge pile of evidence that she loves you, which makes a convincing case.

@KatMat: your analogy would begin approaching realism if: — during the pledge of allegiance kids were forced to say «one nation under The Orioles» — our nation's currency said «In Dallas Cowboys We Trust» — if millions were slaughtered, tortured and burned to death because they weren't fans of The Pittsburgh Penguins — if NASCAR fans endlessly attempted to have Intelligent Car Driving taught beside Evolution in science class as a possible explanation for how mankind developed — if «the 5 D's» of Dodgeball (Dodge, Duck, Dip, Dive, Dodge) were constantly attempted to be made into law so everyone would live by the same ridiculous notions, even if those notions knowingly discriminate — if nutters constantly claimed America was founded on the principles of Darts, even though our country SPECIFICALLY calls for a separation between Darts and State because the founders knew the inherent dangers of Darts becoming government instead of staying in the realm of sport where it belongs

kermit — Concerning the teacher analogy, if a teacher (or any other human) tells you something you don't automatically believe — you evaluate it, you run it through your own personal bs filter based on your current knowledge and experiences, etc..

actually you do nt have to prove the many deities or Gods that they really exist, because they really had existed in their times, They are part of the evolutionary process for us humans to transcend to higher consciousness.To simplify the analogy, when we were young and we are in the lower grade school, we were taught simple subjects not advance literatures but simple stories even mythicals, The same with religion, thousands of years ago when there was no science yet, primitive people had a religion, of course man made faiths to conform with their state of mind or intellect.But later atfter thousands of years we evolve into a more educated people and so new concept of God again was presented to them, another man made concept, and this go on and on, until a few thiousand years ago.monotheism, Judaism, christianity, islam, buddhism, etc also evolved, But with the accelerated evolution, these faith again is threatend with obsolesencs because of of scientific developments and education.In panthroteistic faith, the future religion needs to conform to evolutionary process, This proves that God is always there guiding the change.And it his will that made this a reality in history since the begining of the universe 13 billion years ago, and this will continue to exist until He will completely fulfill His will to infinity, Thats PANTHROTHEISM, the futue, man made religion under His guidance through scientifiic evoluition after the Bi Bang

(By way of analogy, I wouldn't ask you to relativise every statement not based on, say, non-empirical knowledge, so I don't see why I should.)

This science - fictiony analogy may seem silly and far - fetched, but there is always someone stronger than we are and they can not be counted on to be just.

For instance we constantly see iterations on the analogy, «if a father tells a son to wear knee pads while skateboarding, and the son doesn't, falls and skins his knee, should the father be blamed?»

So foggy an analogy will not, however, do — not as an interpretation of Heidegger, or as a reading of Hannah Arendt on Heidegger.

Drawing on an architectural analogy, he said, «The unity of a Gothic cathedral is not the static unity of a classical temple but a unity born of the dynamic tension of diverse forces which impel the architecture upward, pointing to heaven.»

If you look back where I first (I think) explored the analogy of performance, in a piece titled «Performing the Scriptures» (first published in 1982, reprinted in a collection called Theology on the Way to Emmaus in 1986), you will see that I contrast the notion of interpretation as performance not with the historian's craft but with the supposition that a text (any text, although it is with scripture that I am most concerned)-- a set of black marks on white paper — tells you how to take it, without any interpretative labor on the reader's part, a labor for which the reader must take personal responsibility.

In consequence, with such models as their objective, physicists frequently formulate the content of quantum mechanics in the language of classically conceived particles and waves, because of certain analogies between the formal structures of classical and quantum mechanics... Accordingly, although a satisfactory uniformly complete interpretation of quantum mechanics based on a single model can not be given, the theory can be satisfactorily interpreted for each concrete experimental situation to which the theory is applied.2

You first do not see the inherint evil in eternal suffering for a minor transgression (namely disbelief), add on top of that your willing acceptance for a life sentence in prison for jaywalking (with the analogy given), well lets just say I was blown away.

«In this case I didn't do enough homework,» Beck told radio listeners on Thursday, while his website said his comments contained «one of the worst analogies of all time.»

[5] In particular, our understanding of creation should not be based on the analogy with a human craftsman in as much as he always works with what already exists.

You seem to «privilege» your sense of rationality and logic — and cast the irrational and illogical (probably not analogical because you may incorporate analogy into your sense of «logic» but it's illogical, descriptively) I actually see my rationality and logic (such as it is — hardly syllogistic) as always in the service of my attitude, outlook, frame of mind — which is to say, my illogical and irrational belief & bias system — and my unconscious, of which my consciousness is merely tip - of - the - I's berg, or as some linguists said: a snowball on the tip of the iceberg.

But is not the intolerable nature of this situation from the workmen's viewpoint the point on which the analogy turns?

And your asinine analogy of a thief in a store is beyond absurd, and has no bearing on legislation of what a woman may do with her body, whether you approve or not.

See for instance Raimon Panikkar, On Catholic Identity (University of Tulsa 1991), p. 2, where this becomes clear from what he says on the identity of a Christian: «We may agree that a Christian is somebody who acknowledges a special relation to Jesus Christ, but the understanding of this relation can not be expressed in any univocal way and the analogy can not go beyond the formal or structural contents of the word «relation&raquOn Catholic Identity (University of Tulsa 1991), p. 2, where this becomes clear from what he says on the identity of a Christian: «We may agree that a Christian is somebody who acknowledges a special relation to Jesus Christ, but the understanding of this relation can not be expressed in any univocal way and the analogy can not go beyond the formal or structural contents of the word «relation&raquon the identity of a Christian: «We may agree that a Christian is somebody who acknowledges a special relation to Jesus Christ, but the understanding of this relation can not be expressed in any univocal way and the analogy can not go beyond the formal or structural contents of the word «relation»

The argument for gay rights and anti-discrimination laws depends heavily on asserting the analogy with the civil rights movement, in which skin color is not a choice but an unchangeable given.

i do nt think the analogy of «pooping on someones car, and you think it funny» is an analogy that i would have ever came up with...

These issues are not the whole content of the Catholic faith but, to use a military analogy, they take on a strategic value.

Therefore, God evolves or undergoes transformation.3 We have already argued that the Catholic understanding and use of analogy can not be put in service of Dr. Altizer's position because he miscalculates the Catholic stance on analogy.

In any event, and with all respect to a distinguished scholar - cardinal who has been kind enough to praise my own work on John Paul II and from whose books I have profited over the years, it does seem to me that Cardinal Kasper's analogy between his proposal on Holy Communion for the divorced and civilly remarried, and the development of Catholic self - understanding that led to Vatican II's affirmation of religious freedom, just doesn't work.

Where YOU lie, is how you insist that I'm «misrepresenting evolution», and YET, at the end of the day... evolution STILL can't explain «something from nothing»... and if you insist on relying on evolution as the thesis for the existence of life... my dictionary analogy very much applies.

The present form of the verse certainly represents an expansion of the original prohibition which, on the analogy of the four preceding prohibitions, probably read simply, «You shall not covet,» or perhaps, «You shall not covet your neighbor's house» (that is, the totality of what is your neighbor's).

To continue the faucet analogy, if he wants to turn her off maybe he shouldn't have turned her on in the first place.

Further, in an apropo analogy, Rienzi looks to for - profit companies like Whole Foods that clearly take moral views on economic philosophy or the environment, and explains the illogic of allowing corporations to take such views while maintaining that a company could not take a similar, religious - based position.

But he rarely demonstrated any very keen awareness of the ways in which, for instance, Plato's understanding of the Form of the Good, or certain Christian understandings of the analogy between transcendent and created being (and so on), open up paths that certainly can not terminate in nihilism.

If this is so, we should be able to demonstrate that spiritual quests, on the analogy of rites of passage, do not occur, unfold, or follow each other randomly but have an order that can be systematically described, even if only at a very high level of generality.

Hartshorne added a paragraph in A, expanding on the reference: Plato's mind - body analogy, accepted by a number of modern theists before I came to my view has not, so far as I know; been carefully criticized.

You know, I don't really mind the lamb analogy being used on us.

Entities in the world are assumed to be two stages removed from the familiar systems on which the model is based: (1) gas molecules are not the «tiny elastic spheres» of the model (if we are not naive realists), and (2) «tiny elastic spheres» are not billiard balls (if we have kept negative analogy in mind).

Your analogy involving James Harden and betting money on the Timberwolves even though you're pretty sure they're going to get destroyed is terrible and not even remotely similar.

To be fair because these players flopped in their respective clubs does not necessarily mean Te would have flopped at Arsenal because if you want to use such harebrained and short - sighted analogy then you can blame Wenger for the many many players hw could have signed who later turned out world class later, CR7, Zlatan just to mention 2...... like it or lump it Wenger is overcautious and indecisive in the transfer market nowadays...... you win some and lose some, no manager in the world can boast a 100 % success rate when buying players...... I know the jury is still out on Martial but personally I respect LVG's courage, conviction and decisiveness in identifying him and going al out to get him, Wenger need to show such attributes more!!!!

My only issue with Wenger not buying a shirt (I like the analogy) is that part of his rationale is that he has lots of good nylon shirts that are as good as the ones on sale.

Seriously, his analogy is that Iowa depends on their opponents being so stupid that they didn't install defenses against small fighters and they left an external exhaust port with direct access to the core unshielded?

@Eat Pie that is a good analogy and not many of the free world were praising Mugabe for hanging on and ruining his country.

Bullshit analogy, granted, but do nt be depending on City / Chelsea slip ups winning us a league.

To use a possibly clunky analogy: when a baby or toddler eats on demand at Mama's Milk Diner, they're not forced to wait an hour or more to eat after ordering, and they won't have their food abruptly snatched from their mouths or their plates cleared away before they're done eating.