Sentences with phrase «on human judgment»

Thune said in a statement he found Facebook's response «encouraging» though it revealed that its trending topics feature «relied on human judgment, and not just an automated process, more than previously acknowledged.»

To some extent as well, the law relies on human judgment, not only among judges, but among juries — counting on them to be humane not just rational.

Overall, we get inferior decisions and outcomes in crucial situations when we rely on human judgment and intuition instead of on hard, cold, boring data and math.

This is where folks will have to rely on human judgment to interpret the «objective» numbers based on VAMs.

We discuss how additional research could help educators use these measures more effectively, and we pose new questions, the answers to which depend not on empirical investigation but on human judgment.

«They're inherently subjective because they're based on human judgment,» says David Peterson, a project scientist at Salk and the University of California, San Diego and first author of the new paper.

Paul Slovic, an expert on human judgment, decision - making and the psychology of risk, will present two Patten Lectures the week of Oct. 24 at Indiana University Bloomington.

The Adult Decision - Making Competence test allows us to characterize the extent to which people are susceptible to specific types of biases that have been studied in the literature on human judgment and decision - making,» Barbey said.

Another area of the criminal justice system that relies on human judgment is the arraignment — when a suspect has been arrested but not yet charged and a judge has to decide whether to release or lock up the alleged offender until his or her next court date.

Researchers are exploring that possibility and other crime - fighting techniques that rely less on human judgment and more on big data crunching such as an algorithm that predicts an offender's risk of committing another crime.

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We vastly underestimate the role of context in controlling human behavior and instead base our judgments on extremely limited information.

Finance groups focus on cost - cutting, risk - averse lawyers make the company impossible to do business with, and human resources casts judgment on employees.

«One of the most interesting things we've noticed over the last decade is the ability of math and machines to replace human judgment, particularly expert judgment,» Rabois said on Founder Calls, a new podcast run by Box CEO Aaron Levie.

rea · son — noun / ˈrēzən / a.Think, understand, and form judgments by a process of logic — humans do not reason entirely from facts b.Find an answer to a problem by considering various possible solutions c.Persuade (someone) with rational argument — I tried to reason with her, but without success» I accept nothing on faith» can you prove we evolved from primates or that life started by random chance?

And his virtues as a scholar — solid research, rigorous thinking, careful judgment, and a profound compassion for troubled human beings — are on full display in his book.

This is also seen in the difference between those who see Jesus as in some way embodying a universal principle, as is the case of theologians in the tradition of Schleiermacher, and those, like the great Swiss theologian Karl Barth, who stressed that humans can in no way sit in judgment on God's revelation.

In my judgment, the «Social Principles» of the United Methodists, the «Statement on Economic Justice» of the Lutheran Church in America, the «Statement on Human Rights» of the United Church of Christ, and the World Council of Churches» themes of «Justice, Sustainability and Participation» are models of such efforts.

Human beings are capable of rational judgments based on a longer view of things.

I do not suggest that pastors of the church should not offer moral judgments on human activities.

The experienced fact of human sinfulness and the promise of salvation through the unmerited forgiveness of sin have placed much emphasis on divine judgment in traditional Christian thinking.

3 So when you, a mere human being, pass judgment on them and yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God's judgment?

Calvin, Institutes, I.vii.5: «Enlightened by him (the Spirit), no longer do we believe that Scripture is from God on the basis of either our judgment or that of others; but, in a way that surpasses human judgment, we are made absolutely certain, just as if we beheld there the majesty (numen) of God himself, that it has come to us by the ministry of men from God's very mouth....

The moment he finishes his lifetime given when he was conceived in his mothers womb which no one knows including the angel comes to take the soul... Actually the moment a human dies his / her day of judgment starts and then waits till the final day to be judged... O our Lord have mercy on us and judge us with Your mercy and not with Your justice... amin

In an interview with the Church of Ireland Gazette, he also blamed negative attitudes towards the EU on recent European human rights judgments which he supported, saying: «The fact is, of course, we have absorbed the European Convention on Human Rights into British law anyway, so it is not as if there is some sinister global tyranny forcing us, he human rights judgments which he supported, saying: «The fact is, of course, we have absorbed the European Convention on Human Rights into British law anyway, so it is not as if there is some sinister global tyranny forcing us, he Human Rights into British law anyway, so it is not as if there is some sinister global tyranny forcing us, he said.

I believe that what Tillich was attempting to say in his own particular idiom (based as it was on a combination of existentialist analysis of human sensibility and the philosophical outlook found in German idealist thought) can be put in another fashion — and one which in my judgment speaks more directly to the ordinary man or woman.

It is based on the fact that in the Church among all human communities men can most directly appeal to the reigning Christ's judgment upon the community itself.

But once this simple removal of our own consciences from the sphere of judgment has been shaken, once we see the conflict between good and evil in its true depth in every human heart, a deeper view of history must be found if we are to have a hope based on solid foundations.

Facts, or evidence, seem incontrovertible only in the light, or dark as the case may be, of human judgment, which is the only source of error on this planet.

It is after doing what is commanded, when everything has been done in the sphere of human decisions and means, when in terms of the relation to God every effort has been made to know the will of God and to obey it, when in the arena of life there has been full acceptance of all responsibilities and interpretations and commitments and conflicts, it is then and only then that the judgment takes on meaning: all this (that we had to do) is useless; all this we cast from us to put it in thy hands, O Lord; all this belongs no more to the human order but to the order of thy kingdom.

Any judgment on human nature runs into the problem of human differences.

On the other hand, he said that the message of Billy Graham, despite its simple pietism and obscurantist framework of «The Bible says...,» has «preserved something of the biblical sense of a divine judgment and mercy before which all human strivings and ambitions are convicted of guilt and reduced to their proper proportions.

While in the case of the Canaanites God poured his judgement on human wickedness, through His chosen, but, alas, not righteous people, God's justice is supremely displayed at the Cross where the sinless Son of God bore the judgment of all human wickedness.

Bultmann is inclined to the judgment that there exists a substantial agreement between the Christian understanding and a philosophy of existence not orientated upon the event of Christ (Heidegger and others) on the negative side — i.e. the fallenness (Verfallenheit) of human life.

MacIntyre's position is, I think, similar to his characterization of Rosenzweig's in Edith Stein: «We do not begin with some adequate grasp of the concepts of knowledge and truth and in the light of these pass judgment on whether or not we know something of God or whether or not it is true God exists, but rather it is from our encounters with God — and with the world and with human beings — that we learn what it is to have knowledge of what truth is.»

And they declare that they have experienced the judgment of an all - inclusive love on their pettiness and pride, while at the same time they have been the recipients of a forgiveness or acceptance which comes when their previous stupidity and cupidity have in some strange fashion been taken away and they have been given the opportunity and occasion for genuine enrichment in fellowship with their human brethren.

Faced with Catholic clericalism, Orthodox binding, European Protestant devastation, confrontations with old and new paganisms, the irrelevance of much of American Protestantism, and ominous signs that, by standards of human judgment, the church was unequal to its task, the editors relied on a secret for hope.

The Holy See can pass judgment on the butler's true «Catholicism,» but it has no jurisdiction over him as a physical human being.

Not sin, for it is thought of as a universal human attribute; nor forgiveness, for it is conceived as a mere event in the world of external objects, on which man by his very theories and proofs exercises judgment, asserting that divine forgiveness can and must be thus and so.

Accordingly, human choice must decide not only «what is true but what criteria shall be used to determine the truth, and what standards shall be used in choosing between competing criteria, and what judgments shall be employed in deciding on the standards ad infinitum» (Van Cleve Morris, Philosophy and the American School).

Humans participate in this, but due to our rebellion against God, came under His judgment, and unable to make right judgments on our own, and so our role in God's justice is limited.

Our spiritual judgment, I said, our opinion of the significance and value of a human event or condition, must be decided on empirical grounds exclusively.

Essentially, Psalm 82 is where God, the judge of all, sits in judgment on corrupt human judges.

Morality does not rule out feeling — on a human level moral judgment is simply logically in a different category than ordinary feeling.

We have learned from the Enlightenment and its Marxist negative image some bad lessons: a self - righteous view of human nature, individual or collective, a good - evil dichotomy in our judgment on others and in our social action, a shallow sense of human community, and an exaggerated confidence in the power of human beings to manage and control their own destinies.

If we try to argue the righteous wrath of God towards sinners away (as this world does), what remains is a ridiculously distorted picture of the true awesome and almighty God, who is loving and just, caring and chastening, redeeming and — one day — a condemning judge for those who refused to believe in His righteous judgment of human sin executed on the Cross.

The dogmatic way in which the church has often declared itself on matters of personal salvation and judgment has rested on an inadequate understanding of the complexities of the human situation.

This judgment should be based on enlightened self - interest: Would a vote to grant personhood benefit the rest of us, or harm us (for example, by preventing us from doing lethal experiments on this human that could add to our medical knowledge)?

1) prove he wasn't gay 2) prove that a factual god exists and has both time and interest to pass judgment on BILLIONS of inferior humans.

In making this judgment they were shaped, as all Christians are, by the intellectual tradition centered on the question, «What is the best life for a human being?

We may wish to suspend judgment on the ultimate meaning of human existence, but in actual fact we find ourselves compelled to act as if certain things were true and certain values more important than others.