Sentences with phrase «of subjective things»

Well success is one of those subjective things,...

Is it just a bunch of subjective things that makes you like or dislike them as they teach you yoga?

Not exact matches

So what the Russians try to do is to change the subject, change the rules of international competition away from those more objective things to more subjective things like feelings, like fear, like anxiety.

I guess that's one of the things about the beauty and subjective nature of any kind of «art» - It will speak to some and not to others, with varying responses and reactions in between.

The third category deals with things that would not convince him at all: speaking in tongues or other pseudo-miracles; people's conversion stories; any subjective experience; the Bible Code or other numerological feats, creationism of any sort.

They unwittingly reveal their own subjective impressions of things and thus their own emotional states.

Procreation may often still be seen as a good thing, even the ideal, but it is the subjective experience of loving that is primary in this approach.

In that «realist» tradition the intelligible actuality of a thing is not a projection from the mind of the observer — as in Kant and the subjective schools that come from him — but is an intrinsic aspect of the thing itself.

To impute purpose to God is no dishonesty in Whitehead; for he finds no real or possible thing that is not in its degree of simplicity or complexity endowed with subjective aim.

Before signing off, I think it's important to remind everyone that while I've tried my best to write about Modern Paganism from a variety of perspectives, it's a very subjective thing, and you might hear completely different answers from other Pagans.

In this completely social philosophy (conflict, which is not denied, being also a social relation) God is that in the cosmos whereby it is a cosmos; he is the individual case on the cosmic scale of all the ultimate categories (including those of social feeling, «subjective aim,» etc.) thanks to which these categories describe a community of things, and not merely things each enclosed in unutterable privacy, irrelevant to and unordered with respect to anything else.

Music is a highly subjective thing and is evidence for the amazing complexity of human creativity, but not for God.

In her transcendence, so the doctrine of anatta would suggest in the first instance, the Mother of the world would not have wisdom and compassion, as if she were one thing and her subjective states another.

And I would also like to point out that the idea of rights is subjective too according to your arguments, there is no such thing as truth and everyone should just live life the way they want too.

There can be no such thing as pure «selfishness since no self originates or exists in isolation from others and even the most subjective interest is still of a social nature.

For the subject - object relation is an assertion of ego, one's ordering the world about his subjective, personal consciousness, and as such it offers a handhold to all of the invidious evaluations that separate men from things, from each other, and from their own deepest life itself.

Only I - Thou sees this wholeness as the whole person in unreasoned relation with what is over against him rather than as a sum of parts, some of which are labeled objective and hence oriented around the thing known and some subjective and hence oriented around the knower.

Whitehead's exceedingly strong distinctions between subjective and objective dimensions of the transmission of feelings, and the final and efficient causality therein involved, fall into the category of this infection of thought by modes of discrimination between individually conceivable things or elements of things.66

Our (as in you, me and everyone else) understanding of reality is so skewed and subjective that you can not possibly hope to reason through such a thing.

Before I state it, however, I must say that there is no reason why the more traditional position, both about life beyond death as a subjective (and hence personal) reality for each of us and also with respect to the traditional portrayal of the «last things» (including an intermediate state), may not be accepted by those who find it compelling.

I agree about the inner witness of the Holy Spirit, but it is such a subjective thing, and many of us what something that is less nebulous.

It is a commonplace of modern science that facts are one thing and values quite another, that we can rely on objective scientific knowledge, while subjective metaphysical thinking (the logical positivists would say) is dubious and to be avoided whenever possible.

«Religion must indeed be a thing of the heart; but in order to elevate it from the region of subjective caprice and waywardness, and to distinguish between that which is true and false in religion, we must appeal to an objective standard.

For this reason he understood the term hypostasis / substance not in the objective sense (of a reality present within us), but in the subjective sense, as an expression of an interior attitude -LSB-...] In the twentieth century this interpretation became prevalent -LSB-...] but -LSB-...] Faith is not merely a personal reaching out towards things to come that are still totally absent -LSB-...] It gives us even now something of the reality we are waiting for, and this present reality constitutes for us a «proof of the things that are still unseen.

These apparently impersonal methods seem to allow for a minimum of subjective involvement, of taking things for granted, and of flights of fancy.

While the primordial nature is indeed «untrammeled by reference to any particular course of things» (PR 522), the «perfection of God's subjective aim» presupposes its being restricted.

Genetic analysis attends to the subjective coming - to - be of an occasion, arising from past physical things and finding satisfaction in a definiteness that itself takes up or makes a new physical position.

Generally put, contrast occurs when two things not fitting together according to their own internal principles are fitted together by the special context of the experiencer, by the subjective form that experiences them together.

As a result, Whitehead moves away from the epistemology of modernity, according to all things a certain level of subjective agency (FCPP 174 - 178).

Beauty is a subjective thing, as one prankster, who left a pineapple on top of a display at an art museum — only to find it under glass a few days later — recently...

The specific expression of principles of other things might be different; further, other things have their own subjective responses to make that might thwart the love (or renovation).

But these «subjective» moods are not the same thing as God's revelation of Himself to us.

Unfortunately, however, we can not ground subjective unity in the superject, for two reasons: (1) The superject is completely determinate, and hence devoid of activity; it can not do any of the things subjects are supposed to do.

Having a selfish desire interposes between the categoreal obligations of subjective satisfaction, and the objective values of things to be attended to, a bad principle of valuation, namely that things should be valued for their contribution to a personal idea of self.

Second, from a genetic or subjective point of view, the principle of a thing is the set of categoreal obligations that define the process of attaining satisfaction for its initial data.

Only in human beings, indeed only in connoisseurs, is there a highly developed capacity to integrate prehended things into one's own subjective experience while acknowledging the objective natures and values of those things.

His insistence on monism was not aimed to reduce the particularity and materiality of the world to ideal «principle» in some subjective sense, although he did misstate his case when he called for seeking principle within oneself instead of in external things.

A lot of things are logical, but they don't work because we are dealing with subjective beings.

But at least two senses of the word can easily be isolated: sometimes, «information» means simply «data,» objective facts given «out there,» things, processes, brute events; at other times, however, it means the cognitive contents of subjective knowledge «in here» about things, processes, events, and so on.

Ogden's essay concludes with an honest statement that he does not, at the time of writing, see that such a portrayal of «the promise of faith» as he has drawn — and I remind you that since he and I have said much the same thing, this would be true of my own presentation — necessarily entails what he calls «subjective immortality», the persistence beyond death of the conscious self.

Our sense of the importance of things, events, persons, and of the universe itself, seems to share with secondary qualities the characteristic of being totally subjective and arbitrary.

But Whitehead directs our attention away from such enduring things to the individual «occasions of experience,» momentary events whose subjective aims determine their becoming.

Please let us know what this evidence is, but remember that it has to stand up to OUTSIDE scrutiny by those of us who know just how much the human brain is unable to process subjective phenomena and things of that sort.

In this way, for instance, value can now be established as an essential feature of the nature of things, in that from the subjective standpoint of a concrescing actual entity objectification is an evaluation of dative actual entities with a view to its own self - enjoyment and aim at satisfaction (RM 85, 101f.).

1 Kandinsky's identification of music with the subjective reflects the kind of consideration raised by Nietzsche when he observed that: «whoever gives himself up entirely to the impression of a symphony, seems to see all the possible events of life and the world take place in himself; yet if he reflects, he can find no likeness between the music and the things which pass before his mind» (BT 102).

A science that recognizes that a fuller explanation of what happens requires attention to the subjective side of things could, and I believe generally would, leave openings for the view that God plays a role in that inward reality.

«To begin with experience,» says Moltmann, «may sound subjective, arbitrary and fortuitous, but I hope to show that it is none of these things.»

But it is impossible to carry on this discipline in the subjective sphere without zealously emphasizing the brighter and minimizing the darker aspects of the objective sphere of things at the same time.

The prayer is not indeed a purely subjective thing; — it means a real increase in intensity of absorption of spiritual power or grace; — but we do not know enough of what takes place in the spiritual world to know how the prayer operates; who is cognizant of it, or through what channel the grace is given.

I think as consumers we should be wary of avoiding a certain product simply due to skepticism — it's one thing to recommend not using a product because it has scientifically been proven to cause harm; it's another to recommend not using a product because of subjective reasons, such as how creepy the fact is that X. campestris is the culprit of black rot on crucifers (or personal opinions of the FDA)... yes, X. campestris is used to ferment sugars to produce xanthan gum, but the fact that it causes rotting of crucifers is unrelated (and doesn't suddenly make xanthan gum harmful).