Sentences with phrase «on physical understanding»

This was a model based not on physical understanding but on empirical curve fitting.

These expectations are based on physical understanding of the climate system.

[Lorius et al., 1990] concluded from their analysis that climate sensitivity to a doubling of CO2 is 3 - 4ºC, in good agreement with independent estimates based on the physical understanding of CO2 forcing and relevant feedbacks as coded in models.

At one point of the paper Miskolczi presents correct arguments based on the physical understanding that the equality is not true when there are temperature differences.

Not exact matches

Startups that decide to focus on foreign markets often feel the need for a physical presence in the country, in part to understand the needs of their customers in that area.

Though the company built its name on ecommerce, Amazon's expanding chain of stores is a sign that it understands the value of a physical presence.

«Male and female he created them» is not merely a statement from Scripture but a reflection on the physical and spiritual reality of things, and in the modern era we are coming to understand just how very interesting it is that we are male and female, how different and complementary we are, howsignificant this might be, and how much we need to study and reflect on it.

What is most remarkable about Vita nuova is that it contrives, in ways that remain securely on the side of calculated understatement, to make the reader understand that Dante's lady is to be understood as directly, and miraculously, related to the physical and noumenal presence of Christ.

Similarly, if the intellect (which «becomes all things») depended on a physical organ, like the red of the flagon, that organ's physical characteristics would impede the intellect's ability to «understand» certain physical characteristics of things.

In his encyclical letter on the importance of St. Thomas» work, Pope Leo also alluded to the Church's need to maintain a deep study of science: «When the Scholastics, following the teaching of the Holy Fathers, everywhere taught throughout their anthropology that the human understanding can only rise to the knowledge of immaterial things by things of sense, nothing could be more useful for the philosopher than to investigate carefully the secrets of Nature, and to be conversant, long and laboriously, with the study of physical science.»

But even if Thomas's physiology is (from our perspective) wobbly, we can acknowledge that he is again on to something: understanding (for instance) colours is different from sensing colours.There is a sort of distance which would not be there if the operation of the intellect were tied essentially to a physical organ.

[d] should be understood as an insertion because it includes late concepts, that is, «intellectual feelings» and «physical feelings», respectively from redactional strata H and D (on those concepts as belonging to later redactional strata, see chapter nine in EWM).

Hence in opposition to Whitehead, at least as he understands him, Leclerc advocates a modified Aristotelianism, according to which the subordinate entities within a physical organism «act on each other reciprocally, and are thus each modified, in some respect, by the relationship, that is, by their acting» (NPE 309).

He can not distinguish questions regarding the existence of the universe from questions regarding its physical origin; he does not grasp how assertions regarding the absolute must logically differ from assertions regarding contingent beings; he does not know the differences between truths of reason and empirical facts; he has no concept of ontology, in contradistinction to, say, physics or evolutionary biology; he does not understand how assertions regarding transcendental perfections differ from assertions regarding maximum magnitude; he clumsily imagines that the idea of God is susceptible to the same argument from infinite regress traditionally advanced against materialism; he does not understand what the metaphysical concept of simplicity entails; and on and on.

Even if such preposterousness could be overcome, there would remain all of the questions of why perspective would not totally determine interpretation, as would happen if interactions were sheerly physical, and of how good art and good criticism would be distinguished from bad.9 Clearly, art and its impact can not be understood without some allowance for its status as an imaginative reality, a status deeply dependent on art's physicalness, but not reducible to physicalness.

But retrieving it now on a reflective level will give us the needed base for understanding our physical universe.

The dramatic revisions in our ideas on the spatiality of matter have, therefore, a major implication: We must abandon the assumption that we can understand physical reality by simply locating bits of matter in space without taking into account the relational web of energy - events in which they are situated.

Beyond astronomy, the more one understands about the physical sciences and the world we live on, the more you come to see that it is too dang perfect to be the result of some random, godless cosmic event.

He was strongly opposed to the teaching of some of his Christian contemporaries who wished to interpret the idiom of resurrection as an allegorical description of that Christian experience by which «a man, having come to the truth, has been reanimated and revivified to God, and, the death of ignorance being dispelled, has as it were burst forth from the tomb of the old man».35 Tertullian was adamant that the resurrection was in the future and to be understood in physical, fleshly terms («I pronounce that the flesh will certainly rise again»).36 In order to forestall those who could contend the impossibility of such a hope on the grounds that the decayed corpse would have long since wasted away to nothing, he pointed out that quite recently, in his city, skeletons some five hundred years old had been unearthed in a remarkable state of preservation.

We can even perhaps regard all purely physical and chemical change (understood atomistically on the model of local motion) as change and activity without self - transcendence.

In that case it is hard to see why such a created entity, communicated to the faculty of the finite being, could not lastingly belong to it, and why, therefore, we may not consider as conceivable the very thing that defenders of physical premotion attack as metaphysically meaningless, namely, that a faculty or power, understood to be an active power, could bring itself from potency to act, of itself, of course on the basis of conservatio and concursus, which latter, however, would not create some intermediary between potency and act but simply posit potency and act.

Coercion is readily understood on the experiential level of social or physical behavior, but its proper metaphysical definition is difficult to ascertain.

Our next issue will focus on Catholic approaches to the impact of modern science upon our understanding of physical being.

Fred... not sure if I quite understand yr point and I don't know of any denominations that have a monopoly on the «physical» distance between God and man (excluding the Mormons, of course... lol)... simply becuz they are more recent....

How long did it take for someone to finally look inwards upon this physical body of ours by taking on a scientific journey toward finally understanding our body - like buildings of Godly intentions?

see what you have to understand about living in a real world — a world where god is just a story and not real — its a world based on scientific and physical laws that are proven to exist and their effects are measurable... us as humans, mere animals, hold no real power or control aside thru ingenuity which allows us to change our environment to suit us... stay with me here... at this point in human history we ceased to change to suit our environment and started changing it to suit us — thats destruction of the earth to suit one species — that should go over well...

The modern difficulty in understanding the Church's teaching on married sexuality stems in large part from a failure to distinguish between lust and what is (or should be) normal sexual desire, i.e. between assertive and unregulated sexual desire, bent foremost on physical self - satisfaction, and simple sexual attraction, which can include a desire for union and is characterised by respect and regulated by love.

The effect of the doctrine of internal relations on the understanding of the nature of the physical existent is radical.

Grace, then, is what holds the whole together on the physical and practical level of day - to - day functioning — not from outside, as in the Carolingians» understanding, but as a potential for order within the physical world itself.

As we have seen, physical acting must be fundamentally a relating, and relating can not be understood in terms of mere «impact,» for this can result at most in only change of place — and indeed, as was clear to thinkers like Descartes, Newton, Leibniz and Kant, on the conception of the physical as in itself passive «matter,» even change of place could not occur upon mere impact, there being necessary also an «act» setting the impacted body into motion.

For an understanding of the change or motion fundamental in physical acting, it is necessary to concentrate on that acting as producing structural relationships.

First, any direct effect of my aims on cells remote from my soul will be garbled and intermixed with the indirect effects of the same aims as mediated by many routes of physical contact — the situation is analogous to the problem of understanding a speaker in an echo chamber.

Leclerc thinks it vital for any sound metaphysics that it ground itself on a proper understanding of the nature of physical existence.

Many people fail to understand the fact that while same se - x couples may be the «same» on the outside, the literal physical level, they are «opposite» on the inside, meaning their inner se - xuality.

I have argued that we should reconceive concrescence itself as the active interweaving of efficient and final causation, understanding by efficient causation the entire career of physical feeling, not simply concentrating exclusively on its initial phase.

The author argues that we should reconceive concrescence itself as the active interweaving of efficient and final causation, understanding by efficient causation the entire career of physical feeling, not simply concentrating exclusively on its initial phase.

Modernism developed on the basis of the Newtonian universe, conceived as a complex inanimate machine, operating in absolute space and absolute time according to its own internal laws, which were also believed to be eternal and absolute.4 Understanding this «natural world» was the key to everything; physicists set about uncovering the laws by which the physical world operates; Adam Smith looked for the natural laws by which the economy operates; Darwin thought he had discovered, in the law of natural selection, the origin of species.

You do nt understand the physical impacts of the «fall» on Adam / Eve and all of creation.

«While analytics will continue to be critical for retailers and manufacturers to understand the digitally engaged food shopper on a deeper level, a collaborative approach to balancing physical and digital sales strategies is the key to unlocking omnichannel success.»

The goal of the All American Sports Academy is to train and educate all student athletes on the correct physical skills and mechanics needed to compete at all levels, as well as understand the proper practice habits and time management skills needed to improve their game.

The Buckeyes didn't understand the language on a spiritual level (and on a physical level, could not compete with LSU's defense).

Blessed with enormous physical tools, Davis now has a greater understanding of Darren Erman's scheme and that has translated into an all - around influence on the team's fortunes.

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He's unselfish and has made his teammates better, and while not a physical specimen, Gilgeous - Alexander has a good understanding of on - court angles as he probes defenses.

Nzonzi i understand just his physical presence is enough for me, good on the ball and uses his body well.

Vidal will be able to fill the seemingly lack of physical presence in the middle for the Gunners, while not compromising quality on the offensive end because of his technique and understanding for the game.

Simultaneously the Youth Sport Trust continued to listen, understand and ensure their programmes are able to reach out to those with physical disabilities, learning difficulties, special educational needs and other equalities groups — with a clear focus on those least able to engage.

Rüdiger is tall, strong and fast and as the season wore on it was easy to see; his understanding of the game is rapidly approaching his considerable physical skills

Press Association Sport understands the 28 - year - old is scheduled to attend the club's Finch Farm training ground on Tuesday to undergo his physical examination and finalise terms.

Based on the book Attached at the Heart, the Attached at the Heart Parenting Educator (AHPE) program is grounded in attachment theory, informed by cutting edge research, and designed as a prevention model to help parents better understand and apply the Eight Principles of Parenting for a child's optimal physical and emotional development.