Sentences with phrase «of coherent thinking»

A friend who has been teaching a course on constitutional law for a couple of decades and has achieved a national reputation confided recently that he plans to stop teaching the course; there just isn't any integrity to the subject, and it becomes almost a degrading experience to have to teach, say, equal protection doctrine and pretend that the Court's decisions are the product of any sort of coherent thinking.

It is ending with the threatened destruction of all coherent thought.»

Just try not to prove you're a victim of the failed American education system with your lack of coherent thought!

GTI family ties Volkswagen hasn't traditionally thrown a lot of coherent thought into developing a coherent performance sub-brand, like Benz's AMG, Renault's RS, BMW's M or Audi Sport.

Not exact matches

«I think in order to qualify as a coherent set of policies, the policies have to not be cartoonish and the policies have to stand some chance of being actually enacted, and I just don't think Mr. Trump's trade policies meet either of those criteria,» said Michael Strain, resident scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute.

Yet for all the book's strengths, it is one thing to demonstrate that a system of thought or group of practices are coherent; it is quite another to demonstrate that they are good.

Most believers are simply not capable of forming a coherent, rational thought.

No, the things the young Robert Lowell needed most as a poet were a coherent system of thought, a rich set of symbols, and a powerful collection of truths with which to begin his work.

Thus the whole to which his thought is dedicated is a temporal whole: reality is now unified only because it will be a coherent narrative when history is brought to its conclusion in the Kingdom of God.

It is memoria, in this sense, that enables us to think of our lives in meaningfully narrative terms: the whole project of identifying and pursuing a coherent life would be impossible without memoria.

If you can tell me how science answers the creation of life, the universe, coherent thought, etc then go ahead.

Nevertheless, the possibility of a coherent quantum theory based on process thought is, in principle, important for the project of recovering a comprehensive vision in which a biblical understanding of God finds an important role.

In other words, as Whitehead notes, for Plato «determinations of incompatibilities and incompatibilities are the key to coherent thought» (AI 147).

Whitehead endeavors to think of nature as a coherent, self - developing whole in which there are no longer spirit and matter as mutually isolated realms.

In the opinion of this writer Moltmann is correct to insist on the importance of a theological perspective when considering science, and on the need to ponder the intrinsic unity and beauty of all of creation, but it is surely the lack of a coherent metaphysics of science that has led to the increasing gap between modern scientific thought and Christian theology.

Read those books and your thoughts are likely to be more clear and your words more coherent, no matter if you argue for or against the existence of God.

It is fascinating in itself; it throws light on every portion of the Bible; it clears up obscurities, explaining what is else inexplicable; it distinguishes the minor detours from the major highways of Biblical thought; it gives their true value to primitive concepts, the early, blazed trails leading out to great issues; and, in the end, it makes of the Bible a coherent whole, understood, as everything has to be understood, in terms of its origins and growth.

From the perspective of the complete books as coherent statements, one will regard not the sentence but the paragraph (or the equivalent for poetry, the stanza) as the basic unit of thought.

Hartshorne is able to unite thought and experience for the believer because he has largely succeeded in developing a concept of God that is internally coherent and externally adequate to religious faith in God as the proper object of worship.

Temporalism is, I think, more coherent with the bulk of Whitehead's metaphysics in Process and Reality.

-- the theists have not provided a coherent argument or evidence for the existance of god, other than «wishful thinking»

No matter how you slice it, the world's religions just don't pass any kind of test that puts rationality and coherent thought above simple faith.

The doctrine that all actualities alike are in the grip of creativity suggests a general principle which Whitehead thinks every metaphysical scheme, so far as it is coherent, must follow.

Having thus posed all sorts of questions, legitimate enough if we grant the usual position about resurrection, it is now our task to set forth what may be a more coherent and credible way of thinking about «Jesus risen from the dead».

When all allowance has been made for these limiting factors — the chances of oral transmission, the effect of translation, the interest of teachers in making the sayings «contemporary,» and simple human fallibility — it remains that the first three gospels offer a body of sayings on the whole so consistent, so coherent, and withal so distinctive in manner, style content, that no reasonable critic should doubt, whatever reservations he may have about individual sayings, that we find reflected here the thought of a single, unique teacher.

To avoid that kind of crisis as you read this article, let's define what we mean by «Christian Privilege» for the sake of coherent and consistent thinking.

Finally, it sometimes appears that Wheeler's primary goal is not to demonstrate that Whiteheadian and evangelical thought are actually similar on soteriological issues but rather to demonstrate that it is possible to produce a coherent synthesis of the two, a synthesis which incorporates what is most illuminating in each.

But secondly, and perhaps more importantly, you may be able (in one of your advanced courses) to formulate coherent thought processes.

If you can grow a brain, post a coherent thought in writing that doesn't exhibit ignorance of the English language, and manage to do so in something resembling a timely manner, do alert the media.

You seem incapable of writing even your simple thoughts in any coherent way.

It is with the idea and in the hope of advancing towards a solution of the problem that I here venture, basing my argument on the widest possible zoological and biological grounds, to put forward a coherent view of the «thinking Earth» in which I believe we may find, undistorted but yet embodying the corrections required by a change of order, the whole process of Life and of vitalization.

In its encounter with the sciences, process thought has not only appropriated new scientific insights but has attempted a mutual transformation through which the sciences are liberated from the dominance of the mechanistic, deterministic, substantialist view into a holistic relational vision that is more coherent, consistent, adequate to the facts, and congruent with the best in the contemporary scientific enterprise itself.

Some of our best philosophers and social critics have thought that our troubles do indeed stem from our loss of any consistent and coherent way of talking about the things that matter deeply.

It's wrong to imagine this body of doctrine to be a complete system like Thomism, but it did provide a stable, coherent basis for thinking about the social question.

Traditionalists of all stripes, I think, believe that clear, coherent, bright - line rules work best.

The task of thought is to build up a system of hypotheses that is consistent and coherent and that meets the tests of adequacy and applicability.

Thus, for the founders of modern science and philosophy, the world was rational in the sense of conforming to an intelligible pattern, and thought about the world should be coherent.

They are no longer coherent streams of thought and are divided by splits and hundreds of splinter groups.

When we acknowledge that our pictures do not represent reality, then we can also give up the quest for a coherent system of thought to describe the world.

The beliefs are just so far out there for me, that whenever I see someone in ardent support of them I have to think they're a troll, because I don't know how they could possibly believe or accept that (there are a few exceptions of people who pt things very well, cite supporting evidence, and are consistent and coherent - I don't agree with them, but I can at least understand what they're saying)

To see if I can put jumbled thoughts in my head into some sort of coherent order.

Responding to Mudge's attempt to provide a coherent overview of his writings, Ricouer offers clarifications that trace the paths of his thinking.

But theology's plan for «greening» America and the rest of the earth by play and make - believe signaled little more than its utter estrangement from any coherent community of language and thought.

I find all this, after thinking about it for some seventy years, almost ludicrous in its begging of questions and failure to make coherent sense.

I do not think one can avoid the implication in Whitehead's aesthetic metaphysics that any realization of value is in some sense desirable and coherent with the nature of God.

Not only is no thought given to how to unify all of this into a single coherent course of study, but no attention is given to how anything more than a rudimentary introduction can be given to so many different research disciplines.

To posit a subjective capacity to feel at the heart of all the moments that make up the cosmic process goes beyond the limits of scientific ways of thinking, but it is not a position that in any way conflicts with a coherent cosmology.

This thoroughgoing approach to faith and reason means that, as ever, we publish pieces that reveal what we think are aspects of the effect upon our church and society of the 20th century collapse of an agreed and coherent vision of the faith to hand on to our seminarians and our people.

(Religion in the Making, Cleveland: Meridian Books, 1960, 31) This goal of elucidation is apparent when he says that rational religion's aim is to make it «the central element in a coherent ordering of life... in respect to the elucidation of thought, and in respect to the direction of conduct...» (Religion in the Making, Cleveland: Meridian Books, 1960, 30) Religion's final product is the provision of «a meaning, in terms of value, for our own existence, a meaning which flows from the nature of things.»

In summary, he defines rational religion as»... religion whose beliefs and rituals have been reorganized with the aim of making it the central element in a coherent ordering of life — an ordering which shall be coherent both in respect to the elucidation of thought, and in respect to the direction of conduct towards a unified purpose commanding ethical approval.»