Sentences with phrase «of philosophical statements»

Whitehead notes that «an old established metaphysical system gains a false air of adequate precision from the fact that its words and phrases have passed into current literature» (PR 13), leading to a «false» presumption of descriptive precision that assumes the obvious simplicity of the philosophical statements offered.

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San, I think BRMT04's statements are arguably bigoted because many of the «philosophical differences» are simply false.

The gospel which we proclaim is not phrased in the idiom of scientific statement, nor is it told in terms of a philosophical syllogism.

Accordingly, his intellectual adventure has been, above all, one of philosophical construction, appropriating Whitehead and Peirce especially for his own metaphysical statement.

Though two speak of «freedom of choice» and a few give no real theological rationale for their position, virtually all the statements of this type are concerned not with human freedom or women's rights, but with articulating solid theological and philosophical reasons for the position they take.

Significantly, these same philosophical commitments have even been very much in evidence in statements of the WCC's past three assemblies.

Mays claims this piece provides a clear statement of Whitehead's later philosophical method.

This comes out clearly in one of his latest statements about the therapeutic» function of philosophy as applied to social issues: «helping people get out from under outdated philosophical ideas, helping break the crust of convention.»

What is therefore necessary, according to Cobb, is a Christian natural theology: a coherent statement about the nature of reality that recognizes its interpretation of the facts to be decisively conditioned by the Christian tradition, yet remains content to rest its case upon purely philosophical criteria of truth.124 Cobb offers such a statement in his important book, A Christian Natural Theology.

This prayer, in Perls» mind, may have been only a teaching device and not a statement of a basic philosophical principle.

Because the western way of knowing and speaking has involved philosophical models and the use of syllogism, story, metaphor, and propositional statement, theology has followed these forms, especially the latter.

For on his own principles if there were not some kind of awareness of causal efficacy, there would be no warrant for making statements about it: «Nothing is to be received into the philosophical scheme which is not discoverable as an element in subjective experience» (PR 166/253).

But he clearly doesn't mean by this that the concept of omnipotence he attributes to God is derived solely from biblical statements, for he immediately adds that «unfortunately, Scripture contains no explicit statement concerning God's omnipotence, nor does it discuss the issue in any philosophical way.»

The inherently necessary borders of science could best be protected in the future if all scientists were to agree to draw a clear, careful, and inviolable line between scientific and philosophical / religious truth - that is, if they would conscientiously seek to avoid making purportedly scientific statements concerning questions whose answers lie beyond the scope of scientific inquiry.

21 FR 53 contains extraordinarily significant statements of Whitehead's about philosophical method which substantially supplement the corresponding first chapter of Process and Reality on «Speculative Philosophy.»

The term «ontology» has received a double meaning in the course of its history: it means, in its different applications, not only the philosophical theory of being but also the consideration of the human's statements about reality.

On the contrary, the meaning of doctrinal statements such as the creeds and other historical professions of belief, the circumstances which evoked them, and the philosophical presuppositions which helped to determine the character of their assertions are all matters of the greatest interest and importance.

The brute fact of this inconsistency pinpoints how extremely dangerous Ford's hypothesis really is; for it leads to a basic interpretative strategy that is diametrically opposed to the one required by Whitehead's many statements to the effect that his books are intended to supplement one another's omissions and compressions and that, consequently, his system of thought, including his basic metaphysical system, must be carefully gleaned from all his philosophical works.

Of course, when pressed in conversation, Ford readily admits that the statements in question are not factual but constitute, instead, a highly imaginative hypothesis primarily intended to explain the ever - shifting terminology with which Whitehead expressed his thought and the many textual anomalies — topical discontinuities, clumsy insertions, ghost references, etc — that plague his philosophical books, particularly Science and the Modern World and Process and Reality.

Their decision to dogmatize this teaching reflected their concern for the uniqueness of Jesus, not for a philosophical statement about the nature of perfection.

Towards the peak of evolution, just before the first human being, nature itself required the creation of an individual «mind» with its own, non-material, «spiritual» control, a quite startling and beautiful philosophical and theological statement.

Philosophical explanation calls for a more precise statement of the feature of feeling that allows for the emergence of consciousness.

Certainly that is ONE way to interpret the current data, and I happen to think it is very likely that your statement is correct (I am a «believer» in my own mind of this statement), but it is not an automatic a ssumption and there are several scientific and philosophical papers that describe viable mechanisms that would overturn that a ssumption.

But with the knowledge presently available to theology and with the vast change of philosophical perspective that has occurred since the first centuries of Christendom, tentative new formulations of the original Christian experience that are not always literally contained within the traditional normative statements are now being proposed by theologians from a variety of philosophical perspectives.

After all, «in philosophical discussion, the merest hint of dogmatic certainty as to finality of statement is an exhibition of folly» (PR xiv).

To my way of thinking, the Whig tradition — and particularly the Catholic Whig tradition — offers the world's best statement of philosophical principles and practical guidelines concerning how and why free citizens should shape new societies worthy of their human rights and ordered liberties.

The committee also adopted the recreation department's new mission statement, which was written by a citizens Recreation and Parks Advisory Board and defines the philosophical purpose of leisure services.

Mixed in among the specific questions on his previous statements there are fundamental philosophical questions raised, including the out - of - Africa theory, rather winningly.

Most of the killings are still bloodless, but the only time the fighting stops, is to give someone an opportunity to make an overwrought philosophical statement about destiny and choice.

From the opening monologue — where Segel (as title character Jeff) talks about how M. Night Shyamalan's Signs is a philosophical statement of the highest order — it isn't clear whether Jeff, Who Lives at Home will take a mocking tone towards its inhabitants or a sincere one.

She makes grand philosophical statements to Quentin about the importance of her quest.

Keith's interactions make for hit - and - miss low - key drama, as he has passing interactions with characters who are either one - dimensional, (his cheery grandparents, a woman later who wants drugs from him) or refreshingly eccentric, like a drug ring guru dude named Mom, who espouses Bible quotes and other philosophical statements in one of the movie's rare unforgettable scenes.

From 1961 to 1963, the Judson Memorial Church on Washington Square South in Manhattan hosted the Hall of Issues, a weekly forum that enabled artists, writers, and passers - by to voice their concerns — be they social, political or philosophical — in the form of drawings and statements pinned to a display board.

With the intention of creating work that could assume a direct material and physical «presence» without recourse to grand philosophical statements, he eschewed the classical ideals of representational sculpture to create a rigorous visual vocabulary that sought clear and definite objects as its primary mode of articulation.

These statements are characteristic of Tuymans's self - conscious and tenaciously semantic shaping of the philosophical content in his work.

Without making grand philosophical statements, he was approached his work with the intention of creating pieces that assumed a direct material and physical presence.

But even in the more technical sections of the text, Albers imbues her descriptions of practice with illuminating philosophical statements about creativity, art, and functionality.

Wanting to create works that could assume a direct material and physical presence without recourse to grand philosophical statements, Judd eschewed classical ideals of representational sculpture and created works that relied on clear, definite objects.

Nothing exists is a philosophical quandary, a statement comprised of absolute polarities, in which it's meaning is inherently dependent on one's perception.

Though that is more a philosophical than a practically useful statement, and it's not the same as claiming that «AGW caused this», which many of Gleick's opponents are arguing against (i.e. strawman).

It happens in both directions, and there's often an inverse relationship, so I have to interpret your statement as a philosophical wish rather than an accurate observation of fact.

Teddy — I view my statement that the blogosphere contains a huge amount of misinformation to be either true or false, but not philosophical.

Notwithstanding our philosophical objections to professor Brand's thesis, we can only agree with his general statement that «access to courts is not access to justice», and that «[a] n ODR system that is simple, efficient, effective, transparent, and fair, offers the hope of real justice in such disputes».