Sentences with phrase «on an analogy between»

He subsequently preached - as early as 1825 - on the analogy between the growth of living things in the natural world and «the gradual revelation of the Gospel.»

Only days before the November 2 elections, Union Theological Seminary in New York held a two - day conference on analogies between the Roman Empire and the American one.

Not exact matches

There's a good analogy between running a company and driving on the freeway in a fog.

@KatMat: your analogy would begin approaching realism if: — during the pledge of allegiance kids were forced to say «one nation under The Orioles» — our nation's currency said «In Dallas Cowboys We Trust» — if millions were slaughtered, tortured and burned to death because they weren't fans of The Pittsburgh Penguins — if NASCAR fans endlessly attempted to have Intelligent Car Driving taught beside Evolution in science class as a possible explanation for how mankind developed — if «the 5 D's» of Dodgeball (Dodge, Duck, Dip, Dive, Dodge) were constantly attempted to be made into law so everyone would live by the same ridiculous notions, even if those notions knowingly discriminate — if nutters constantly claimed America was founded on the principles of Darts, even though our country SPECIFICALLY calls for a separation between Darts and State because the founders knew the inherent dangers of Darts becoming government instead of staying in the realm of sport where it belongs

My analogy was attempting to suggest an incommensurate gap between rational logical positivism (on the one hand) and the kind beyond literal and metaphorical thinking that aims at representing — well, religious faith, for sure, and all sorts of varied artistic representing.

Next, in a fascinating chapter on sport, Schall draws an analogy between the fundamental human experience of being wrapped up in watching a good game of sport, and contemplation of the Godhead.

The following three questions, based on the analogy above, illustrates the difference between respect for human rights and the management of terror.

On this analogy, the relation between scientific theories of perception and the experience of the «withness of the body» would be like the relation of scientific psychology and scientific medicine to folk - psychology and folk - medicine.

The conclusion from this examination of the texts is that the analogy between molecules and electrons on the one hand and God and actual occasions on the other is without foundation and very misleading, since it lulls the unwary reader into feeling that since Whitehead at least implicitly acknowledges overlapping regional standpoints in the first instance (which we have seen to be false) then to say that God is omnipresent, meaning that the standpoint of God includes the regions which constitute the standpoints of all actual occasions, is merely an extension of a general principle which Whitehead at least implicitly endorses.

In this context, Gandhi stresses the analogy between Collingwood's reformed metaphysics and Strawson's descriptive metaphysics, two conceptions that, on Gandhi's view, have to be rejected.3 A concept of metaphysics such as that of Whitehead necessitates, on the contrary, «the analysis and critical evaluation of scientific presuppositions in connection with presuppositions of other domains of civilized thought (moral, religious, sociological, aesthetic, etc.), so as to arrive at a satisfactory conception of the most fundamental characteristics of all that we encounter in our experience.

Perhaps it would be well to make more explicit the analogy between revolution and constitution on the one hand and conversion and covenant on the other that underlies this whole discussion.

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

Or again, one might adopt an analogy from the law courts, and explain the death of Christ as a transaction between God and man through which God's claims on man were satisfied.

In both patterns, the induction is essentially «from particular to particular» and is founded on analogy — the analogy between the entities constituting the evidence and that between systematizations of order relevant to these entities («theories or environments»).

The method of analogy rests on the assumption that there is at least a partial identity of structure between the qualitative pattern of the event and our response to it.

In any event, and with all respect to a distinguished scholar - cardinal who has been kind enough to praise my own work on John Paul II and from whose books I have profited over the years, it does seem to me that Cardinal Kasper's analogy between his proposal on Holy Communion for the divorced and civilly remarried, and the development of Catholic self - understanding that led to Vatican II's affirmation of religious freedom, just doesn't work.

But he rarely demonstrated any very keen awareness of the ways in which, for instance, Plato's understanding of the Form of the Good, or certain Christian understandings of the analogy between transcendent and created being (and so on), open up paths that certainly can not terminate in nihilism.

One of many analogies between postmodernity and dying antiquity — in which the church lived for her most creative period — is that the late antique world also insisted on being a meaningless chaos, and that the church had to save her converts by offering herself as the narratable world within which life could be lived with dramatic coherence.

At the time, most physicists working on electricity and magnetism were looking for analogies with gravity, which they viewed as a force acting between bodies at a distance.

I couldn't help but ponder an analogy between MacKenzie's article on how migrants can enhance the economy and the commentary...

Third, AI doomsday scenarios are often predicated on a false analogy between natural intelligence and artificial intelligence.

Reed Between the Lines is instead a totemic analogy, bemoaning in sitcom form the lack of well - adjusted black families living in upper - middle - class splendor on network TV.

A more apt analogy would be between watching movies on a big screen in a theater and watching them at home on a television via a video cassette or DVD.

On the parallel between «Daredevil,» «Hulk» and his own life: I hadn't thought about it in terms of Hulk, but you're right — if you take the Hulk - goes - to - SHIELD analogy and map it to Mark - starts - Thrillbent, it really is the kind of same journey of, «I want to do something different.

It aims at finding analogies between the three, namely their common focus on the radical emancipation of the individual, the topic of the Second World War as well as their introduction of a new style of teaching.

His lurid fantasy landscapes painted on stock - market listings draw contemporary analogies between the state of the planet and industrial capitalism, but their dramatic geography originates in the New World vistas of the Hudson River School, just as their apocalyptic storm clouds derive from John Martin.

Based on formal analogies, Halmer creates a subtle coherence between painting and objects and transforms their specific function into a poetic state of being.

The project anticipates projecting videos of singular naked bodies swirling in underwater worlds onto washing machine doors in public laundromats on Long Island to create an analogy between spinning wet clothes and the dampened dreams of the Latino immigrant.

Artist Massimiliano Bomba produced a video for the fair that touches on these notions in image and text, through a root analogy of beekeeping and nudges to the link between production and global destruction in «Octagon» (2016): «Sunday, sabbath, rest.

Wells wrote to Nicholson on 2 July 1944, «The analogy between great music (which is always abstract) and abstract painting seems to me of fundamental importance and not stressed nearly enough» (TGA.8717.1.2.5329).

Rosado - Seijo went on to create a series of sculptures from books relating to art theory and history, then mounting used skateboard wheels to the back covers echoing a theoretical and visual analogy between art, knowledge and skateboarding's history.

Specious analogies between the Earth's climate system & biosphere, and simple on / off electromechanical devices, do not constitute such evidence.

As an analogy, if I told you that I was going to paint my white car black and that I expected it would get hotter on sunny days as a result, you would probably start asking questions about what the temperature of the paint was when I applied it and how those molecules heated up or cooled down, ignoring the relevant factor which is this: By painting the car black, I am changing the car's albedo and thus changing the radiative balance between the car and the sun on sunny days.

bender, the attempted analogy (# 392, # 397) between the decadal hockey stick shenanigans and your own intemperate response to David Stockwell's obscure and tentative blog posts here and on Niche Modeling in the last five days would I think be hilarious to everyone, if you alone did not take yourself so seriously.

Wallace draws the analogy between what is going on amongst the climatistas and Lysenko.

To use an analogy, there is no conflict between my new bathroom scales that claim a precise value of 81.3 ± 0.1 kg and my old ones that say 81 ± 0.5 (or even someone who, on eyeballing me, says «80 ± 5»).

As a consequence, simulation of clouds requires a fair amount of inspired guesswork (for which read «parameterization» as mentioned above with regard to the smoke plume analogy) as to what might be a suitable average of whatever is going on between the grid - points of the model.

The mirrors on two sides of the bulb has some merits as an analogy, you wouldn't doubt that the total flux of photons going back and forth between the mirrors sums to more than the 100 watts being input, but at equilibrium, only 100 watts escapes.

An analogy is sometimes drawn between those who have resisted the tide of scientific evidence on the dangers of climate change and those who once questioned the link between smoking and lung cancer in the face of overwhelming medical evidence.

Finally, he did not see the close analogy between ordering interest on costs, which was commonplace, and ordering exchange rate losses due to the particular time that the costs were paid, which was not.

The suggestion that there is an analogy between their struggle to achieve equality and these petitioners» concerted efforts to deny women equal access to a constitutionally protected privilege may have rhetorical appeal, but it is insupportable on the record before us...» Justice Stevens also noted that Bray «presents a striking contemporary example of the kind of zealous, politically motivated, lawless conduct that led to the enactment of the Ku Klux Act in 1871 and gave it its name.»

My take on the Philip Morris decision has already generated many thoughtful comments, which prompt me to develop a bit more the analogies I see between extreme punitive damages and extreme punitive sentences.

First of all, without it being necessary to rule on a potential analogy between the tendering procedure relevant to the present case and the principles that are applicable in public procurement... it should be noted that the applicant's argument concerning that potential analogy is based on the fact that, at the end of the tendering procedure, no bid or no appropriate bid had been submitted.

Outcome In N v ACCG [2017] UKSC 22, the Supreme Court has now pronounced definitively upon what the Court of Protection should do where is a dispute between the providers or funders of health or social services for a person lacking the capacity to make the decision for himself as to what services should be provided to him either between the person's family or, by analogy, by those acting on behalf of the person.

Because of the differences between international investment law and traditional public international law, on the one hand, and commercial arbitration, on the other, analogies with both systems, while certainly not excluded, have to be treated with caution.

If I may use an analogy from your expertise, it's as if, in an engineering issue governed by classical physics — say the construction of a bridge between Vancouver and Victoria — you claimed, during a lecture on eng» g principles, that it could be readily and cheaply done because of some principle that you've recently discovered, through your own investigations, which happens to be contrary to one of Newton's law's.

The analogy between bitcoin and the internet was regurgitated by Business Insider, which published a profile on Xapo CEO Wences Casares, with «Star Silicon Valley entrepreneur: Here's why bitcoin will be bigger than the internet» as its headline.

Particularly, (1) we expected a positive association between the owners» supportiveness and warmth and the dogs» proximity seeking with the owner, since a supportive and warm parenting style has been associated with more secure attachment in children; (2) we expected a positive association between the owners» warmth and the dogs» willingness to approach the experimenter in a friendly manner, based on the facilitating effect of warm parenting on the children's positive interactions with peers; and (3) we expected a positive association between the owners» level of control and higher aggression in the dogs, as a possible analogy of the effect of an authoritarian and harsh parenting on relational aggression in children (Kawabata et al., 2011).

Regarding the «Owner Control» factor we expected a positive association between a more controlling owner interaction style and higher aggression in dogs, as a possible analogy of the effect of an authoritarian and harsh parenting on relational aggression in children (Kawabata et al., 2011).