Sentences with phrase «of ordinary experience»

The story begins in the world of ordinary experience.

This notion of «society» is essential to his metaphysics because it helps to link his speculative conception of actual entities with entities of ordinary experience.

One task of philosophy was to explain the relation between the objects of ordinary experience and these scientific objects.

To look deeply into quantum mechanics is to look beyond the bounds of ordinary experience.

This was an out of the ordinary experience as I came from Michigan to purchase this vehicle.

He insists, following some well - established Buddhist traditions that, although at the level of ordinary experience and thought there is a difference between past and future, at the deepest level of experience, the enlightened level, this difference disappears.

The term «transfiguration,» or we might say «transformation,» points to the process by which a phenomenon that is a part of ordinary experience comes to assume a controlling interpretative role in man's understanding of himself and his world.

Consequently, many of us spent the next decade working through an answer to the question of the meaning of religious language in terms of ordinary experience, in terms of a «revision» or «re-presentation» of the Christian tradition «intelligible to modern minds,» and worked on formulating an appropriate and strong political theology.

Therefore, the stuff of ordinary experience is shaped into expressive form and the story is told in ways that confound and convict but never «prove.»

This was in line with the expectation that the intensification of ordinary experiences and the consciousness - expanding aspects that are so widely associated with psychedelics would be reflected in higher than usual brain activity.

Her photography career began in the silence of the darkroom, but later shifted under the influence of critical theory to combine the traditional practice of documentary photography with the impulsive reflections of ordinary experiences.

Laurent Grasso, the French conceptual artist, is known for complex multimedia works that lie just beyond the realm of ordinary experience, blurring the line between past and present, the real and the paranormal, the seen and the unseen.

First, there is a dimension or realm of reality beyond (and beneath) the visible world of our ordinary experience, a dimension charged with power, whose ultimate quality is compassion.

The ACT is also a parkland territory, with ample open spaces for sport, adventure travel, wine tours and out of the ordinary experiences.

The objects of our ordinary experience, things such as rocks, trees, animals and persons are composites or groupings of what we have been calling occasions of experience.

It would be fruitful if the minister would explore the profundity of the ordinary experience of this oral - aural world — conversing, talking, listening - speaking.

In this book I'm interested in people who are outliers — in men and women who, for one reason or another, are so accomplished and so extraordinary and so outside of ordinary experience that they are as puzzling to the rest of us as a cold day in August.

The underemphasis on the empirical way is particularly important because it has not only discouraged the aesthetic appreciation of the power of art and of the world of ordinary experience, it has also discouraged the moral action which such appreciation might engender.

What if it is true, as Huston Smith argues, that the world of our ordinary experience is but one level of reality, and that we are at all times surrounded by other dimensions of reality which we commonly do not experience?

In rejecting Plato's doctrine, and also the atomistic cosmology of Democritus, Aristotle had assigned fundamental importance to ousia («substances» or «supposits»), the discrete persistent entities of ordinary experience (this ox, that tree)(NPE 45, 204).

Looking for an out of the ordinary experience?