Sentences with phrase «on analogies which»

These images, he urges, are based on analogies which man neither postulates nor establishes for himself; but simply accepts because they are «God - given».

Not exact matches

It is not a perfect analogy but — except, of course, for the part in which analyses that use the number of bookshops as a proxy for literacy are widely ridiculed — it is nonetheless similar to what happens when the health of the Chinese economy is measured by the reported GDP data, or when second - order measures, such as the dependence of Chinese growth on debt, is estimated by looking at credit growth in relation to GDP growth.

That's the takeaway from everything we've ever heard from the governor and which was reinforced in Poloz's most recent analogy on the matter — comparing the rate cut to life - saving surgery, and saying that you don't worry about possible side effects at a time like that

He describes the actions of rational agents in a market using an analogy based on a fictional newspaper contest, in which entrants are asked to choose the six prettiest women from a hundred photographs.

Sticking with the dating analogy, if I had to give you one piece of advice on choosing razor blades, it is to play the field; try out as many razors as you can before you finally decide on which one you want to settle down with.

to go with the wife analogy, sure you don't have any evidence that she hasn't cheated on you, but you probably have a huge pile of evidence that she loves you, which makes a convincing case.

Yet Kluck's chapters ¯ which share touching stories, make numerous sports analogies, and reinstate stale clichés ¯ destabilize the book because they often get tripped up on some of the same trappings that are in the emergent church.

According to one of his analogies: just as the sequence of letters on a page is extraneous to the chemistry of ink and paper, so the sequence of nucleic acids in the DNA molecule (which, when translated, determines the shape of an organism and its specific characteristics) is extraneous to the chemical forces operative in the genetic process.

If these intentional concepts are simply integrated into a univocal time - sequence, then they simply become descriptions of behavior, and we are either on the road to behaviorism and determinism or on the road to the hazardous analogy of the symphony to which I have referred.

Drawing on an architectural analogy, he said, «The unity of a Gothic cathedral is not the static unity of a classical temple but a unity born of the dynamic tension of diverse forces which impel the architecture upward, pointing to heaven.»

If you look back where I first (I think) explored the analogy of performance, in a piece titled «Performing the Scriptures» (first published in 1982, reprinted in a collection called Theology on the Way to Emmaus in 1986), you will see that I contrast the notion of interpretation as performance not with the historian's craft but with the supposition that a text (any text, although it is with scripture that I am most concerned)-- a set of black marks on white paper — tells you how to take it, without any interpretative labor on the reader's part, a labor for which the reader must take personal responsibility.

Hence the minister directs his attention as much toward the «world» as the dean of a medical school has his eye on the potentially and actually sick people of the society outside his closed community of healers, or, to use a wholly different analogy, as much as the mayor of a city keeps in view the nature and the needs of the cultural and economic society of which his city is a center.

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.

The ideas are thought of as though they were workbench parts and gears, the minds on the analogy of separate cabinets in which the gears and parts are stored after they have been sorted.

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.

You seem to «privilege» your sense of rationality and logic — and cast the irrational and illogical (probably not analogical because you may incorporate analogy into your sense of «logic» but it's illogical, descriptively) I actually see my rationality and logic (such as it is — hardly syllogistic) as always in the service of my attitude, outlook, frame of mind — which is to say, my illogical and irrational belief & bias system — and my unconscious, of which my consciousness is merely tip - of - the - I's berg, or as some linguists said: a snowball on the tip of the iceberg.

But is not the intolerable nature of this situation from the workmen's viewpoint the point on which the analogy turns?

The argument for gay rights and anti-discrimination laws depends heavily on asserting the analogy with the civil rights movement, in which skin color is not a choice but an unchangeable given.

He used the analogy of white oak trees, which hold on to their leaves through the winter and shed the vestige of their former life only when spring arrives and new life flows through the branches.

On the other hand, while the Christian way of approach contrasts with that of Greek moralists, it has a real analogy with the Jewish tradition out of which Christianity arose.

In other pathological cases, insane delusions, for example, or psychopathic obsessions, the source is yet to seek, but by analogy it also should be in subliminal regions which improvements in our methods may yet conceivably put on tap.

This «reading» of the meaning of my consciousness by reference to objective accounts of that consciousness sets up a relation which Ricoeur calls «diagnostic,» a designation which rests on a reversed medical analogy.

Can there be any such thing as proper metaphysical analogy, that is, the kind of thinking and speaking on which any categorial or speculative metaphysics necessarily depends?

Specifically, there is the root difficulty of whether there can really be any such thing as proper metaphysical analogy, this being the kind of thinking and speaking on which any categorial or speculative metaphysics necessarily depends.

What Nygren has shown is that the Reformers» doctrine of the gracious love of God as utterly beyond all calculation and analogy with human love establishes an aspect of New Testament faith which helps to shape every Christian perspective on love.

On this analogy, then, we may say that the lower animals are still entranced in the lower stage of brute lethargy, while we have passed into the higher phase of somnambulism, which already permits us strange glimpses of a lucidity that divines the realities of a transcendent world.

With this analogy in mind, Enns moves on to apply it to the first of three Old Testament «problems» — the Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Literature — which will be the subject of next week's discussion.

It seems to me that any meaningful theodicy should employ the analogy of this loving helplessness when it reflects on God and God's relation to a world in which disharmony is a recurrent fact.

The present form of the verse certainly represents an expansion of the original prohibition which, on the analogy of the four preceding prohibitions, probably read simply, «You shall not covet,» or perhaps, «You shall not covet your neighbor's house» (that is, the totality of what is your neighbor's).

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.

He used the analogy of someone on a boat: «If anyone is in a moving ship and imagines that he is at rest, then should he see another ship, which is truly at rest, it will appear to him that the other ship is moved....

Entities in the world are assumed to be two stages removed from the familiar systems on which the model is based: (1) gas molecules are not the «tiny elastic spheres» of the model (if we are not naive realists), and (2) «tiny elastic spheres» are not billiard balls (if we have kept negative analogy in mind).

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.

The guy was a head coach who QUIT on his new owner that he retroactively had signed a contract with, then intervewed for the Jets head job where I guess he brought a little too much Buffalo to the interview since he was eliminated from contention in just a couple of weeks, and now hes in Jacksonville where his main job is protecting Blake Bortles, which to use a Jacksonville analogy - is like being a strip mall rent - a-cop where your anchor store is a Big Lots that has been over run by opossoms.

Hopefully this analogy will be able to give home birth * parents * another perspective though, one which may enable them to see through the lies and manipulation on this issue.

Once you can get beyond the prison analogy, remind yourself that the worst thing that'll happen is your former midnight rambler will fall asleep on the floor — in which case you can move her into her bed once she's sound asleep.

Character develops later and depends on a child's environment, their experiences and the way in which they have been parented (or «baked» to use the cake analogy).

As a (poor) analogy, arguing whether or not it's human - caused feels a bit like planning to develop real estate on a seaside clifftop which some specialists have said might suffer dangerous erosion in the next 70 years unless you put up some seawalls to prevent water action at the base of the cliff - and basing your view whether to build seawalls and other erosion defences upon whether or not there's proof that human activity would be the cause of any future erosion, rather than whether or not erosion is likely and if so how harmful it might be to your interests if nothing is done to reduce it.

«I suppose it's somehow less hurtful to accuse hundreds of thousands of people of sexism than it is to pick on a specific person,» he writes, pointing out that Miller lacks a «coherent argument,» her case resting on a questionable analogy to the 2008 Obama / Clinton race, which Miller asserts Obama won purely because of sexist attacks on Hillary.

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.

«We wanted to ask how age impacts autophagy — is it at the beginning of the process by increasing the rate at which APs are formed, or, by analogy, how many garbage trucks are rolling out on the street — or is it at the end of the process by blocking the conversion of APs to ALs, i.e., how much recycling is taking place at the recycling plant.

The material of their choice, the compound Ag2BiO3, is exceptional for two reasons; on the one hand it is composed of the heavy element bismuth, which allows the spin of the electron to interact with its own motion (spin - orbit coupling)-- a feature that has no analogy in classical physics.

The «enterocyte trash recovery bins» of which I speak are an analogy I introduced in How Fiber Lowers Cholesterol, the second of a loose five - part series on the cholesterol - lowering effects of nuts and seeds.

The «enterocyte trash recovery bins» of which I speak are an analogy I introduced in How Fiber Lowers Cholesterol — the second of a loose five - part series on the cholesterol - lowering effects of nuts and seeds (see Nuts and Bolts of Cholesterol Lowering).

There's an odd real - life analogy to Aiden's situation, given that Braff famously funded Wish I Was Here through Kickstarter — this despite the fact that he had already found fame through a decade of TV's Scrubs, and goodwill through the critical and box - office response to Garden State, which made $ 26 - million on a budget of one - tenth that.

Love the analogy to coaching, where we all have our eye on the end in mind, supporting each student, ideally working together to enrich the culture within we which we work, all learning.

We're completely on the same page here, but the disconnect might be coming because you seem to think my 30 % ceiling is directly connected to the music analogy, which it isn't at all.

His subsequent book, The Intelligent Investor, which Warren Buffet celebrates as «the greatest book on investing ever written», introduced the world to Mr. Market — the best investment analogy in history.

There are other rules out there that adjust for volatility and momentum effect that have done better in the past, but those two effects are being more heavily traded on now relative to the past, which may invalidate the analogy from history to the future.