Not exact matches
Course Overview: - Introduction to Logistics and Supply Chain Management (including the
language and key concepts
of supply chain
structure, upstream and downstream supply chain management).
The more difficult question is whether we would ever be able to learn the internal
structure of an alien
language.
Instead, it needs to be partnered with knowledge
of the concepts that
structure how
language users think.
This
structure creates the potential for a modern - day Tower
of Babel — people try to communicate with one another, but each speaks a different
language and they differ on what content marketing is.
Faced with an enormously complex grammatical
structure, he concluded that the recently developed science
of structural linguistics held the key to cracking the mysteries
of these
languages.
So, it's intriguing to me how Christians, for instance, from different first
language groups can * seem * to have the same belief
structures, but still end up with lots
of different cultural conflicts.
It is indeed inevitable that the Church should develop a theology, a
structure of beliefs which are drawn from, and seek to state in as precise
language as possible, the gospel and its significance for men.
His point was that human
language could convey knowledge
of God, which meant that any form
of revelation communicated the truth as it existed objectively first in God's mind and then in the
structures of the world.
Does logic reflect the nature
of reality, or is it a merely formal
structure governing the use
of language»?
«5 Whitehead shows how this concept
of a thing, a concept that grew out
of practical dealing with the actualities
of the world, entrenched itself in the subject - predicate
structure of language and from there made its way into Aristotle's theory
of the Categories.
For example, we may discuss the
structure of a
language or the
structure of a thought, as well as the
structure of a house or
of a crystal.
That key point is that communities (or, in Whiteheadian
language,
structured societies
of a particular complexity) exercise an agency which is not simply reducible to the agency
of their constituent actual entities.
The
structure, formation
of sentences and paragraphs, the use
of genders, representation in various parts
of sentence, style, use
of idioms etc differentiate English
language from Greek.
The central place accorded to Muhammad and the use
of theological - traditional
language and
structure in Sufism is hardly surprising.
Ibn «Arabi's style
of intermixing radical elements with traditional
language, models and theological
structure could perhaps be explained in this background as an echo
of freethinking controlled by a rigorous interpenetration
of the old and the new.
Thus it came about that the first important proper name to have been written in many
of these
languages must have been the name
of Jesus, with its pronunciation adapted to their distinctive phonic
structure, just as it had been in all the
languages of Europe.
Surprisingly, these
structures are to be found in the form
of a modern computer programming
language — Prolog.
That is, instead
of seeking to reproduce in English the formal
structures — syntactic, imagistic, idiomatic —
of the original texts, the translation strives for analogous «structural, semantic, and idiomatic units that are native to the receptor
language.»
It can start with its own reforms
of structure and
language.
To find the
language and
structure of their own sermonic texts, they will re-oralize biblical ones.
Such a miracle would involve the suspension
of the laws
of nature at the level
of primitive actual occasions, but if we accept the principle that God «speaks» to a given actual occasion in its own «
language,» and if the «
language»
of primitive actual occasions in nature is such that the character
of the data available for aesthetic synthesis in the concrescence
of such occasions admits only
of absolutely miniscule contrasts with the givenness
of the character
of the past, then God has no leverage via subjective aims to introduce shifts in the social
structures conditioning the possibilities available for aesthetic synthesis in the concrescences
of such primitive actual occasions.
In consequence, with such models as their objective, physicists frequently formulate the content
of quantum mechanics in the
language of classically conceived particles and waves, because
of certain analogies between the formal
structures of classical and quantum mechanics... Accordingly, although a satisfactory uniformly complete interpretation
of quantum mechanics based on a single model can not be given, the theory can be satisfactorily interpreted for each concrete experimental situation to which the theory is applied.2
A useful way
of approaching the varied
structures of human existence is through reflection on the meaning
of «I.» The use
of the first person singular in some way is probably coterminous with
language, but its meaning varies widely.
But it is only from the semantic and communicational
structures of language that we can get an argument to demonstrate human transcendence philosophically.
He devoted profound and penetrating thought to the nature
of speech, to the
structure of language, to its psychological and sociological problems, to its typology and its function in the development
of human civilization.
From the basic «master story»
of a culture or community to the tiniest metaphor, our
language results in social attitudes, behavior, roles, and
structures.
(29) Because
language is a primary medium
of communication, its very
structure is affected by social organization and culture.
In this task, the preacher will be served best by what Martin Heidegger calls the primary function
of language: letting be what is through evocative images rather than conceptual
structures.1 But we may be moving ahead
of ourselves here.
But the creeds themselves are not part
of the characteristic
structure of the church; they are but ways in which the faith is stated, in
language appropriate to the time when they were promulgated, and there is no reason why they may not be revised to state this faith in more understandable terms and with greater factual accuracy — but it is the faith, not the creeds, which is important.
Whether we consider the rocky layers enveloping the Earth, the arrangement
of the forms
of life that inhabit it, the variety
of civilizations to which it has given birth, or the
structure of languages spoken upon it, we are forced to the same conclusion: that everything is the sum
of the past and that nothing is comprehensible except through its history.
The goal
of a genuine objectivity is thus in actual practice undermined by a will to power
structured in the very semantics
of language and expressed through a mastery
of the object through technique.
We often think that for the sake
of unity we need uniform
structures, the same doctrine, the same
language and culture, and all should become
of one race and color.
Both Appleby and Juergensmeyer use the neutrality
of religious - studies
language to describe the complex
structures of religious world views, but both also use value - laden
language to distinguish bad religion from good.
By analyzing the
structures and
language of those practices, theologians can identify the basic convictions that operate within them and seek to subject them to analysis and criticism.
A generation
of audiences reared on television is used to animation, emotional appeal, kinesthetic participation, narrative and dramatic
structure, and skillful use
of an «audiovisual»
language.
And this great missionary zeal is evident in his first Apostolic Exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium: «I dream
of a «missionary option», that is, a missionary impulse capable
of transforming everything, so that the Church's customs, ways
of doing things, times and schedules,
language and
structures can be suitably channelled for the evangelisation
of today's world.»
It is hardly an exaggeration to say that no one had ever devoted more profound and more penetrating thought to the nature
of speech, to the
structure of language, to its psychological and sociological problems, to its typology and its function in the development
of human civilization than the sage
of Tegel.
Men will come to see, as they are now beginning to see with the critical examination
of language, that every conceivable
structure of meaning carried by
language is necessarily based on the selections
of data and the forms
of thought derived from the ruling interests
of human life....
And this great missionary zeal is evident in his first Apostolic Exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium: «I dream
of a «missionary option», that is, a missionary impulse capable
of transforming everything, so that the Church's customs, ways
of doing things, times and schedules,
language and
structures can be suitably channelled for the...
There is a determined attempt to impose gender theories in many countries — with attempts to change
language or to castigate parents for bringing up children as male or female, as if the
structures of language and grammar bore no necessary relation to human biology and were just a social construct
of a patriarchal or «straight» society — and forgetting that «non-binary»
language is itself a construct and an attempt to ideologically cleanse
language to suit a particular theory.
Both what is inherited in a causal chain and what «endures» in a life history are eternal objects, either qualia (or subjective forms in the
language of PR) or overarching value
structures (i.e., defining characteristics).
Kraus says that eternal objects «form the patterns
structuring concrete fact» and «the forms
structuring the togetherness
of data into a datum
of experience — eternal objects in Whitehead's
language — are given for all times in ordered, intelligible, interrelated sets like mathematical systems» (ME 30).
Christian preaching demands subversive
language - events that overthrow the present
structures of language.
Theologian John Cobb and other participants in the new hermeneutic discussion have asked whether, considering the radical difference between first century and 20th century
structures of thought and belief, this lack
of language is not a constant problem.
Recognizing that their critique has rendered images
of God no longer absolute, feminists have discovered that the religious power
structure is reluctant to admit that patriarchal symbols for God are culturally influenced (as if God really were male) or contingent (as if use
of a feminine symbol to point to a nonrepresentable God is more inadequate or idolatrous than use
of a male symbol) To read Mary Daly or Naomi Goldenberg, to consider Rosemary Ruether's demasculinizing
of the Gospel stories or to ponder the renewed attention to «goddess» theology and the development
of a lesbian theology is to see the basic
language of theological discourse upset and transformed.
While these are cumulatively defined throughout the work in terms
of the categoreal
structure, their stipulative use from the outset serves the pre-categoreal function
of establishing a conceptual
language with which to shape the systematic
structure.
Back in the»60s, we who are now «old timers» thought
of ourselves as a new breed
of missionaries, well trained in the
language and culture
of the host country and determined to help its church leaders dismantle the
structures of dependency and paternalism.
I might add that such deconstructionists assume that those in the past who produced the entangling
structures of language were ideologically; driven and therefore guilty, while those who do the deconstructing are innocent.
In our contemporary setting, we find Derrida and other deconstructionists asserting that we are «selves» trapped by» the buildup
of past
structures, above all by our
language.
Within those
languages are the
structure and images
of all human imagination and their potential for both social cleavage and coherence.