Sentences with phrase «notion which»

Come to find out, most CPAs avoid real estate primarily due to that preconceived notion which of course leaves it wide open for someone like me to come in and take up market share.

For example, various Code provisions expressly preserve an employee's right to a civil remedy — a notion which would be unnecessary if courts lacked jurisdiction to enforce statutorily - granted rights.

Consensus is a political notion which, when pleaded, indicates that the pleader is totalitarian.

Now, I think it was in 1956 that atmospheric physicist and sometimes - weapons designer Gilbert Plass (who needed to know about IR to fire heat - seeking missiles up the tailpipes of jet fighter at high altitude) noted that CO2 in the upper troposphere could block the escape of IR to space: The Carbon Dioxide Theory of Climate Change, Gilbert Plass (1955)(abstract) In the full paper, available at the above link, Plass spells out the previous notion which his research overturned:

But these «tend your own garden» suggestions either ensure that your actions have next to no impact, or else tap into a magical - thinking mindset that personal - footprint change can drive mass shifts in consciousness — a notion which anyone spending time in the regional mega-mall can peg as extremely wishful thinking.

I mean I actually have this other notion which is partly why I have wanted to write about this artist Charles Seliger.

For Stieglitz, the abstract forms and formations of clouds perfectly equated to the modern idea of equivalence, holding that abstract forms, lines, and colors could represent and evoke universal inner human states, emotions and ideas — a powerful notion which numerous later photographers recognized and emulated.

These romanticized placeholders may honor the victims of mass trespass and genocide that took place in the colonization of the Great Plains, but more certainly, they were meant to invoke the romance of Manifest Destiny — an imperialist notion which had won out over the Whig's belief that the mission of the United States was perfecting the democratic enterprise.

Originally touted as a complete Gears of War clone, Quantum Theory undoubtedly strikes upon several similarities with Epic's masterpiece — a notion which the developer's themselves have admitted.

Although these attempts appear to have been unsuccessful, the widespread telegraphing of such attempts in the media seemed to have reversed a common notion which I saw widespread on forums and other places that, «we are going to be in this mess forever, the market has nowhere to go but down, and therefore shorting the market is a good idea now.»

The question of when political violence - including war - is legitimate remains open, as do our ideas of what constitutes a soft or hard target, a notion which has become even more complicated with the advent of cyber attacks and cyber surveillance.

Just as Jackson Pollock stretched the definition of painting and broke away from previous conventions, Malick is challenging the mainstream notion which defines film and more importantly, he offers a comfort to our suffering.

Again it is the Jewish male, rather than female, that serves as the prototype for the neurotic Jew, a notion which Gilman discusses in terms of degrees of exclusion — women being the «included Other» while the Jewish man is the «excluded Other».

Your child will undoubtedly be truly enthusiastic at this particular notion which will motivate him to utilize the potty correctly and consistently.

This is a notion which stems specifically from confessional Christianity.

His candidate for the notion which best expresses this final or ultimate generality is «creativity.»

The Taoist ideal of knowledge is wu - chih, a notion which Hall associates with his idea of contemplative or theorial knowledge.

Hall discusses the concept together with that of wu - wei, «non-assertive action,» a notion which «suggests spontaneous actions in accordance with the natures of things.»

In the new metaphysics that developed as the Church wrestled with the revelation of God's character in Scripture, the communion of divine Persons came to be understood as a «primordial ontological concept and not a notion which is added to the divine substance or rather which follows it.»

But it is here, in my view, that the importance becomes manifest of an intuitive notion which, timidly evolved less than fifty years ago by a small group of human minds, is now beginning to pervade twentieth century thought as rapidly as did the idea of evolution in the nineteenth century.

It is dangerous to take any particular notion which we derive in the moment of prayer and identify it with the will of God.

A further problem in Brunner's thought is that his doctrine is bound up with a conception of Providence in which the irrational circumstances of life, that is, our finding ourselves in this time and place and situation, are too simply identified with the inscrutable purposes of God.25 He makes too little room for the notion which is so well stated by Calhoun and which surely belongs in the Christian view of life, that the world is an unfinished world.

Does God's Kingdom really grow in depth and fulfillment through the long sweep of the ages, or is that merely an outworn liberal notion which has brought liberal theology to its present extremity?

Is Whitehead trying to resuscitate the notion which James led many twentieth - century philosophers to reject?

For any notion which retroactively conferred a secondary being upon the subject - in - process seemed very suspect.

Creationism is the notion that we were created by a supreme being 10,000 years ago and coexisted with dinosaurs for some time, a notion which can be dismissed by modern science with a laugh.

Also James, in this chapter, speaks of successive thoughts as appropriating or repudiating the contents of earlier thoughts (PP1 340), a notion which Whitehead later takes up in his distinction between positive and negative prehensions.

But they are foolish notions which are not condemned by God himself.

Progress in truth — truth of science and truth of religion — is mainly a progress in the framing of concepts, in discarding artificial abstractions or partial metaphors, and in evolving notions which strike more deeply into the root of reality.»

In short, Wieman was attuned to the very notions which had been shaping the imagery of Whitehead's thought, and thus words which appeared to be mere abstractions, or awkward combinations of otherwise familiar words to some readers, conveyed significant new depth of meaning which Whitehead was at pains to present to his readers.

The contrast between Darwinian evolution and the creative or emergent evolution of recent years may be sharpened if we look more closely at the decisive notions which are seen to be formative in each case.

Whitehead describes this act of «philosophic generalization» in terms reminiscent of Aristotle's own account of «first philosophy,» when he notes that such a generalization is «the utilization of specific notions, applying to a restricted group of facts, for the divination of the generic notions which apply to all facts» (PR 5/8).

Even as science seeks theories of high generality, so in his metaphysics «Whitehead is trying to find a scheme of the highest order of generality made up of more general notions than those found in any of the sciences — notions which are applicable to every kind of experience» (PW 30/22).

Sullivan's notions of the self - system and of selective inattention bring to the fore two other Whiteheadian notions which might be singled out.

There is a difference the particular language (and with that language, the philosophical notions which it entailed) which they employed in stating that instinct and desire.

This neighborhood expands until it embraces those notions which constitute the most general description of reality of which we are capable during any particular historical epoch.

In the above attempt to understand the self in the metaphysical scheme, categories and derivative notions which basically apply to actual entities are utilized because the self is an entirely living nexus of actual entities.

His aim is so to bring the Christian perspective into the concrete political and social experience of modern life that the possibility of achieving justice and brotherhood in human affairs will be increased because men are in some measure freed from the sentimental and romantic notions which can only lead to bitter disillusionment.

To put the same point in theological terms, the immutability and the impassivity of God are notions which hide from us the creative loving God.

14»... the utilization of specific notions, applying to a restricted group of facts, for the divination of generic notions which apply to all facts.»

Griffin & Sherburne, New York: The Free Press, 1978, 10) He defined philosophic generalization as»... the utilization of specific notions, applying to a restricted group of facts, for the divination of the generic notions which apply to all facts.»

This evolution of religion is in the main a disengagement of its own proper ideas from the adventitious notions which have crept into it by reason of the expression of its own ideas in terms of the imaginative picture of the world entertained in previous ages.

The method of speculative philosophy as noted above is»... the utilization of specific notions, applying to a restricted group of facts, for the divination of the generic notions which apply to all facts.»

In reality the Christian affirmations of the Incarnation of the Word, of the Redemption as liberation from sin, of the procession of the Spirit, of the future Parousia, are mythical notions which should be reduced to their rational meaning.

When you make your own cloth diapers, you may need some specialty diaper notions which you can find at PM Organics, Very Baby, Celtic Clothes, and Sew Shoppe.

As we grow up in whichever family or culture, one acquires a lot of notions which are false or simply constructs of the human mind which become truths for us because we accept them.

In contrast to traditional surrealist notions which viewed the mind as being capable of limitless creation and technology as facilitating such unbounded creativity, Fedorova instead prefers to present the mind as being hobbled by technology.

Within her artistic journey that investigates the poetic versus the literal, the painter reconnoiters an assortment of notions which include the female gaze, sensuality, media imagery and social phenomena that occupy the art world.

With the Assists, Stockholder continues to explore questions of boundary, dependence, and response to the landscape of human - made things, notions which have been central to her practice to - date.

Moreover, Schwindt does not perceive fragility and strength as antagonistic nouns, but rather as closely connected notions which appear together quite often.