Sentences with phrase «on analogy from»

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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.

As for the discussion on the analogies that can be drawn from The Matrix, I'm very interested in exploring each and every one.

This eternality of God is difficult to grasp, but if you own a torch (flashlight) and switch it on, then the beam of light from it is also eternal (what a fitting analogy — God and Light!).

As a former High School and college baseball umpire who volunteered many years as a Little League umpire and has been teaching new umpires in youth baseball now for twenty years AND a Roman Catholic I was thoroughly amused by Mr. Prothero's take on the Series game ending Obstruction call and his big picture analogy from the Vatican.

His doctoral dissertation was on Duns Scotus on predestination and his habilitation (the second dissertation required to teach in the German universities) addressed the concept of analogy from the ancient Greeks through the medieval period.

The late Howard Thurman once described the necessary aspect of the struggle for liberation by using an analogy from nature.7 Thurman recalled that on one occasion during his childhood in Daytona Beach, he happened upon a tiny green snake crawling along a dirt path.

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 only a few short paragraphs, Alison provides a compelling account of analogy as God's way of subverting the human story of violence from within» analogy depends on God's refusal to be rejected by his creation.

I know this is a odd analogy but is akin to a Star Trek episode from the original series where the crew landed on a planet of Yangs fighting for their freedom from the combs.

The source of these difficulties, I believe, is his theory of analogy, the attempt, in connection with his neoclassical theory of religious language, to establish a third stratum of meaning, or set of concepts and terms, distinct both from the set of plainly formal, strictly literal concepts and terms, on the one hand, and from the set of plainly material, merely symbolic or metaphorical concepts and terms, on the other.

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.

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

See for instance Raimon Panikkar, On Catholic Identity (University of Tulsa 1991), p. 2, where this becomes clear from what he says on the identity of a Christian: «We may agree that a Christian is somebody who acknowledges a special relation to Jesus Christ, but the understanding of this relation can not be expressed in any univocal way and the analogy can not go beyond the formal or structural contents of the word «relation&raquOn Catholic Identity (University of Tulsa 1991), p. 2, where this becomes clear from what he says on the identity of a Christian: «We may agree that a Christian is somebody who acknowledges a special relation to Jesus Christ, but the understanding of this relation can not be expressed in any univocal way and the analogy can not go beyond the formal or structural contents of the word «relation&raquon the identity of a Christian: «We may agree that a Christian is somebody who acknowledges a special relation to Jesus Christ, but the understanding of this relation can not be expressed in any univocal way and the analogy can not go beyond the formal or structural contents of the word «relation»

He might have offended his critics less if he had more often used the analogy he gave James G. Blaine when explaining his course on Reconstruction: â $ ˜The pilots on our Western rivers steer from point to point as they call itâ $» setting the course of the boat no further than they can see; and that is all I propose to myself in this great problem.â $ ™ â $ œBoth statements suggest Lincolnâ $ ™ s reluctance to take the initiative and make bold plans; he preferred to respond to the actions of others.

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»).

Instead of beginning with an image derived from prophetic discourse, that of another voice behind the prophet's voice, and extending it by analogy to narration, prescriptive saying, wisdom literature, hymnic compositions, and so on, we are delivered from psychologizing interpretations of revelation to a sensitivity to the sense of the text, to the world - reference it opens up before 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.

Where YOU lie, is how you insist that I'm «misrepresenting evolution», and YET, at the end of the day... evolution STILL can't explain «something from nothing»... and if you insist on relying on evolution as the thesis for the existence of life... my dictionary analogy very much applies.

Finally, may I suggest that Cardinal Farrell and others celebrating what they deem a Franciscan revolution in the Church refrain from the harsh biblical analogy the cardinal deployed when he said that defenders of the Church's classic teaching on marriage, and on worthiness to receive holy communion, are like the cranky older brother in the parable of the Prodigal Son?

I suggest Whitehead is drawing an analogy from the microscopic level to explain social institutions on the macroscopic level.

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).

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.

Love the analogy from Shankly you quoted, it's spot on we need grafters and a few magicians.

To use a possibly clunky analogy: when a baby or toddler eats on demand at Mama's Milk Diner, they're not forced to wait an hour or more to eat after ordering, and they won't have their food abruptly snatched from their mouths or their plates cleared away before they're done eating.

I won't labour the political analogies in this, but I'd venture a guess that my colleagues and I would benefit from a match or two on a Saturday morning.

She got there by human error within the FBI... the FBI agent filled out the nomination form in a way exactly opposite from the instructions on the form, a bureaucratic analogy to a surgeon amputating the wrong digit — human error, yes, but of considerable consequence.

But he concedes that perhaps the more apt analogy comes from the Wizard of Oz, where the curtain is pulled back on the operations of a powerful figure.

The drawing shows sine waves that resemble waves on the surface of water being reflected from two surfaces of a film of varying width, but that depiction of the wave nature of light is only a crude analogy.

Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander speculate on the pervading nature of analogy in our thought processes, «from throwaway remarks to...

McKay suggested that the Viking Mars lander may have inadvertently oxidized any evidence of life it its samples of Martian soil, proposed an expedition to gather samples of water from the Saturn moon Enceladus, and offered a child - friendly analogy for how alien life might differ from life on Earth: «I could build a table out of Lincoln logs and you could build a table out of Legos: At the macroscopic scale they'd be the same — they'd both be tables; at the microscopic scale they'd be the same — they'd both be built from carbon atoms.

In this excerpt from his new book author Tom Shachtman explores the influence of scientific analogies and principles on the philosophies and actions of early American colonial and revolutionary politics

I will use your analogy from now on

A villain is proffered in childhood boyfriend Bobby Sharp (Jeremy Renner), who, as he's pushed to spill some rancid beans with the classic attack of «you're a homo» (backed with a string of sports analogies from Harrelson's jock character, woefully underutilized in a film taking place in hockey - mad Minnesota), to pass time until it's crystal clear that even though Josie is crying rape on the stand as explanation of her first child's conception, the evil defense team is incapable of making the leap that this is the perfect opportunity to impeach this witness for maybe always crying rape.

Contains preparation homework task (in footnotes), music task and discussion, homework check - argument from analogy and link to inductive arguments, visual information slides on Paley's watch analogy, video clip analysis, venn diagram task, literacy plenary and homework task.

Greg Kulowiec's keynote address at the iPad Summit borrows an evocative analogy from Seymour Papert on the challenges of technology in schools.

In the world of the very small, where particle and wave aspects of reality are equally significant, things do not behave in any way that we can understand from our experience of the everyday world... all pictures are false, and there is no physical analogy we can make to understand what goes on inside atoms.

The Kindle (as in the sparkling ignition of knowledge) was conceived with overtly bookish analogies, from its paperback size and electronic «paper» display to the librarian - monikered Whispernet (based on mobile - phone carrier Sprint's EVDO broadband service) used to beam content into the box.

To use the sniper analogy that I use in many of my articles; anticipating a signal is sort of like the sniper picking the spot he will snipe from and what he will rest his gun on, then after finding the prime spot, he gets into position and waits for his target to enter the crosshairs of his gun.

To borrow an analogy from the Bible, Greenspan ate sour grapes, and Bernanke's teeth are set on edge.

Long time readers of the blog know that I'm a big sports fan, and occasionally I'll use analogies from the sports world to make a point on investing.

'» In an Oct. 16 Webcast on AARP's «Inside E Street,» hosted by Sheilah Kast, Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, dismissed Dugan's sub-prime analogy, declaring that, with reverse mortgages, the «evidence and results are different from sub-prime.»

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.

He further makes an analogy that we won't expect informed discussion on the causes, consequence and treatments for cancer from non-oncology specialists.

In point of fact, The Devils Cartel (TDC from now on to save my poor fingers) is a very good analogy for EA's copy and paste attitude to franchise gaming.

While various commentaries can be drawn from these surprising visual analogies - for example on consumption, desire, and representations of the human body - the real intrigue of the work lies in its exploration of the surreal and seductive nature of images.

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.

Judging from my impulse to see this show based solely on the artist line - up, I'd say the Golden Eggs analogy is spot - on.

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.

And to carry on the guild analogy, the word «journeyman» is derived from an ancestor of modern French «journee»: a journeyman is someone who's hired and paid by the day.