Sentences with phrase «of nonliteral»

Children demonstrated increased understanding of nonliteral language and use of social skills, and a substantial decrease in the severity of autism spectrum symptoms.

For one thing, he is far more explicit in acknowledging that the whole superstructure of nonliteral predication, whether symbolic or analogical, rests on a base of strictly literal metaphysical claims.

By working out a neoclassical theory of nonliteral religious discourse consistent with his neoclassical theism generally, he has not only overcome the notorious contradictions involved in classical theism's use of analogy and other modes of nonliteral language, he has also given good reasons for thinking that our distinctively modern reflection about God results from two movements of thought, not simply from one.

Not exact matches

Andrew M. Greeley, «Comment on Hunt's» Mythological - Symbolic Religious Commitment: The LAM Scales,»» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 11 (1972): 287 - 92, proposes a fourth nonliteral but transcendent category for the scales but argues only for its legitimacy as an autonomous position, not, as I do, for its role in completing a quadripolar approach to world view.

Is it possible parts of the bible are to be taken in nonliteral translation and is rather just an understanding that God was a part of it.

It is what is proposed hypothetically through the articulation of a language that it is in part nonliteral.

Thus, after a discussion of the «literalness of theism,» in which he argues that it is God who loves literally, while it is we who love only metaphorically, he remarks: «If someone should say that I have been using «literal» and «metaphorical» in an unusual, nonliteral, and even metaphorical sense, I should reply that I have apprehensions this may perhaps be true.

But this is a distinction without a difference: the appropriate (nonliteral, nonphysical) meaning of nuda is simply «bare, mere, alone, only.»

This dramedy is chock full of literal and nonliteral humor with brilliant choices of phrasing and timing.

So K - 12 teachers must regularly incorporate idioms into language arts lesson plans to ensure students understand not only these nonliteral figures of speech, but also have experience figuring out their meaning when confronted with unfamiliar idioms.

• Figures of Speech (and other devices for spicing up your writing): Expressions used in a nonliteral way, such as when you say, «My lips are sealed,» but you haven't put glue over them.