Sentences with phrase «of analogy of being»

When he says that the higher levels are more causally «real», the Catholic philosopher may well recall the concept of the analogy of being, which we have mentioned in this column and elsewhere in previous issues of the magazine.

It lends itself to a philosophical affirmation of the analogy of being in which «higher» forms of complex life are more real, more a unity - in - being, precisely because of their specific dynamic relationships to their environment.

This editorial is not the forum for a specialised discussion of all the subtleties of the analogy of being.

The Root of the Analogy of Being The analogy of being is not the invention of theologians.

Instead, it is confidently asserted that there is a similarity between time and eternity by virtue of the analogy of being.

He was speaking of that which he saw articulated in the Catholic tradition of Eucharistic worship, as he understood it; yet his words unconsciously echoed a great deal that is most deeply characteristic of Dr. Karl Barth's criticism of what he regards as the very heart and centre of Catholic dogmatics, namely the doctrine of the analogy of being.

Not exact matches

He uses the analogy of jewelry: Historically, large jewellers were able to offer customers rings, say, in hundreds of different designs in various sizes because they owned thousand of moulds.

«When I think of the perfect analogy for what we're suffering as a society, it's getting on an airplane,» Sutton said.

«When I first met Meg in 2011, she immediately made an impression with her fly fishing analogies and her knack for cutting to the heart of what's important,» Houston wrote.

The Mars analogy is a thinly veiled jab at Elon Musk, who in addition to being obsessed with the prospect of colonizing Mars is also one of the tech world's biggest A.I. fearmongers.

In the 21 years since the SPDR S&P 500 ETF debuted, the exchange - traded fund market has mutated and grown like some sort of monster that's all - knowing and great at making analogies.

By way of analogy, your car depreciates as it ages and wears out; you're devaluing it when you take a sledgehammer to the bonnet.

But — and here's an analogy I'll probably never get to make again — it reminds me of my days writing about military counterinsurgency and the U.S. occupation of Iraq.

There's obviously a universe of difference between AOL and Bloomberg, but the analogy still mostly fits.

«Any time you look at any kind of real life piece of text or utterance that one human wrote or said to another human, it's filled with analogies, modal logic, belief, expectation, fear, nested modals, lots of variables and quantifiers,» Lenat said.

As someone, however, who has a bucket - list goal of learning to sail and eventually retiring on a sunny, warm beach and managing a humble taco stand and scuba boat, this is exactly the analogy I regularly look to.

When talking about the evolution of desktop 3D printing, many companies today make the analogy to the personal computing boom of the 1980s, but Lobovsky argues they're misremembering the history of computers.

Self - deprecating and refreshingly free of management - speak, this book explains what Gilman learned; and while he doesn't bother drawing analogies to management challenges in other industries, the lessons are obviously translatable.

The analogy I like to think of, let's just say, I'm a lion.

When asked whether Docker can be compared to an enterprise - version of Twitter in terms of fast growth with little revenue, Horing agreed that there's a «little bit of an analogy» between the two.

The reality is that both parties could learn a bit from the smaller - piece - of - a-bigger-pie analogy.

As for the comparisons to physical mail, there are number of reasons why that particular analogy is completely off base:

«Netflix is different from owning a movie theater,» explains Stein, by way of analogy.

One of those lessons was to surround herself with experts, and make sure they function — this is a favourite leadership analogy of Broader's — like a cabinet rather than a house of representatives.

Sadly, Zuckerberg did not say much more about baked goods for people who really just want to be eating cake in the morning, maybe because he realized the limits of the analogy.

The idea is to avoid thinking by analogy — let's make this car look like that car, just sort of different or better — and instead deal with problems by stripping them down to the core and working your way up.

(As Werth explains, the analogy most commonly used is that of a lock and key, in which scientists first model the interior of the cylinder in order to know what kind of key to build.)

Executives and lobbyists have a host of reasons for why preferential treatment should be allowed online, most of them illustrated by analogies to other, similar services.

Consider this analogy: economists likewise sometimes argue, rightly I think, that there is an efficient level of crime.

I think this is important because it allows us to draw analogies with other types of markets.

The analogy between musical improv and ethical crisis management is not perfect, of course.

Sherry Turkle, an MIT psychologist and author of «Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other,» argues there's a closer analogy that should help solve the problem of tech overuse.

The great part of finding historical analogies to inform your current action is that the insights from the past have sustained the test of time.

Here's her analogy: «Think of how difficult it would be to understand your Visa bill if it came each month but regularly included costs that had been incurred months earlier.

«The analogy that I think of is somebody who has a baby alligator in their bathtub and they keep feeding it and taking care of it,» said Charlie Sykes, a popular conservative talk show host in Wisconsin.

I was at a conference last year when I heard the analogy of: are you Facebook, or are you Apple?

Our whole world revolves around storytelling and metaphors and analogies are some of the best shortcuts.

To paraphrase Dr. Milton Friedman's analogy, «There are four ways of spending money, you can spend your money on yourself, you can spend money on someone else, you can use other people's money to spend (Like a T&E account), and other people can spend other people's money.»

To push the movie analogy further: It's harder for films to generate a ton of excitement when they're only being shown in art houses.

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).

Shorter term, however, there is a great deal of potential for price whipsaws in the commodities markets (recall the scissors analogy from a few weeks ago).

It was analytically inadequate, making an analogy between Portnoy, a fictional fetishist and pervert, and Weinstein, a real - life sociopath, a comparison that had the effect of underplaying Weinstein's crimes and diminishing real women's suffering.

All too often people use the analogy of linkbuilding being a popularity contest.

A good analogy would be earning the right to charge tolls on a toll road without performing any kind of improvements to the roadway.

Now, I have used the storm analogy to describe the challenge in front of us because it really illustrates clearly the risks of complacency and what we must be do today to secure a sound financial tomorrow for all Canadians.

The problem with this analogy was just where this building was situated, and its relationship to «other houses» (e.g., the rest of the economy).

[7] The federal corporate income tax code's limits on the deductibility of corporate charitable giving are often used by analogy by courts seeking guidance on whether a gift was reasonable in amount.

That's a pretty huge steelman in that it undoes most of this post, since all reasoning we can do then comes from analogies like animals: humans:: humans: AI.

A non-depth building leader, referring back to the ship analogy, is like a non-steering captain of a ship, practically worthless because the craft is beached somewhere in the shallows going nowhere.

Of course, all analogies are flawed, but they're useful, they're how we think — and maybe there is another, more accurate, and far more telling, analogy here.