Sentences with phrase «on the analogy of»

Like other historians, the historical critics of the Bible made it their aim to interpret the course of human history on the analogy of biological evolution.

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.

«My suggestion is, then, that Kuhn sees the scientific community on the analogy of a religious community and sees science as the scientist's religion.

Particulars are to be conceived, not on the analogy of bricks in a building, but rather on the analogy of notes in a symphony.

Each event is a momentary mind - body understood on the analogy of the organism.

The relationship of God to the world is, therefore, an inclusive one, to be understood on the analogy of the case we know directly, our own.

On the analogy of a materialistic explanation of the universe we must first reduce all the symphony's spiritual aspects to its physical basis printed in the score.

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).

If this is so, we should be able to demonstrate that spiritual quests, on the analogy of rites of passage, do not occur, unfold, or follow each other randomly but have an order that can be systematically described, even if only at a very high level of generality.

Surely Porsche could have had the wit to give all the rear - engined models the same name, whether or not «Carrera»... on the analogy of Boxster, Cayman, Panamera, etc..

To sum up what I felt while opening up the SBX I'm going to fall back on an analogy of the car I got when I turned 18, an Audi A4.

Not exact matches

«When I think of the perfect analogy for what we're suffering as a society, it's getting on an airplane,» Sutton said.

You rely on example instead of analogy.

As someone, however, who has a bucket - list goal of learning to sail and eventually retiring on a sunny, warm beach and managing a humble taco stand and scuba boat, this is exactly the analogy I regularly look to.

Citing studies on disruptive innovation by the likes of 20th - century economist Joseph Shumpeter, he makes an analogy with the energy industry.

Hastings brought the idea of focus back again in his second use of the analogy, on stage at the Code Conference.

«A baseball team entirely composed of catchers could have high esprit de corps,» Ellison offered as an analogy, «but it would not perform very well on the field.»

To paraphrase Dr. Milton Friedman's analogy, «There are four ways of spending money, you can spend your money on yourself, you can spend money on someone else, you can use other people's money to spend (Like a T&E account), and other people can spend other people's money.»

Since you already used a restaurant example, let me continue with the analogy: we're serving tasty food to an ever increasing number of satisfied, loyal customers and making enough money on every meal served to pay back original investment in fixed overhead by next year (those faux - egyptian obelisks didn't come cheap).

Learn the language of the wealthy — Consult this primer of basic definitions and analogies to help you attain a better grasp on the terms and phrases commonly used in the financial world.

A good analogy would be earning the right to charge tolls on a toll road without performing any kind of improvements to the roadway.

Think about it — using the analogy of an open house — why leave your trash on the front lawn, not fix the fence, and neglect a new paint job?

Ben Bernanke's False Analogy Global Research On the March 15 CBS show «60 Minutes», Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke used a false analogy already popularized by President Obama in his quasi-State of the Union Analogy Global Research On the March 15 CBS show «60 Minutes», Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke used a false analogy already popularized by President Obama in his quasi-State of the Union analogy already popularized by President Obama in his quasi-State of the Union Speech.

[7] The federal corporate income tax code's limits on the deductibility of corporate charitable giving are often used by analogy by courts seeking guidance on whether a gift was reasonable in amount.

On the March 15 CBS show «60 Minutes», Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke used a false analogy already popularized by President Obama in his quasi-State of the Union Speech.

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.

Left dismissed a bullish argument for ether — that its price will grow because entrepreneurs can issue tokens and build decentralized applications on top of the ethereum blockchain — using the analogy that Oracle doesn't own part of the businesses that run on its own servers.

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.

One participant gave an analogy of judging road - safety regulatory bodies solely on the number of crashes, saying their response would be to «[make] all roads five miles per hour.»

I'm not sure that the analogy holds up on the level of tactics.

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.

This freed him up to concentrate on locating his pitches, on choosing his words and analogies and shaping his figures of speech.

I like your Traffic Light analogy and find that to be a useful means of describing where one stands on an issue, for example: on the issue of homosexuality being a sin, it has a grey light, with shades of yellow.

I like the bars on the crib being at one time a place of safety and I just might use that analogy in my article.

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.

@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

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.

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.

The Church of course uses a number of different images or analogies to describe herself or different aspects of herself; a mother, a bride or spouse, a home, a human body and so on.

He uses the analogy of ink on the printed page.

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.

The kind of theology I will be engaged in here, by no means the only kind, could be called heuristic theology; in analogy with some similar activities in the sciences, it «plays» with possibilities in order to find out, to discover, new fruitful ways to interpret the universe.6 In the case of an heuristic theology focused on cosmology, the discovery would be oriented toward «remythologizing» creation as dependent upon God.

In our next issue we will publish a discussion on Fr McDermott's implication that the concept of analogy removes the need to fine - tune scholastic ontology.

The prison analogy is troubling on multiple levels, and it's important for Americans to understand why the comparison is so incredibly damaging, especially to people of color.

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!).

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.

He used an analogy to describe this stage — that of sitting on a riverbank preaching» «helpful» sermons to the swimmers struggling in the current.

actually you do nt have to prove the many deities or Gods that they really exist, because they really had existed in their times, They are part of the evolutionary process for us humans to transcend to higher consciousness.To simplify the analogy, when we were young and we are in the lower grade school, we were taught simple subjects not advance literatures but simple stories even mythicals, The same with religion, thousands of years ago when there was no science yet, primitive people had a religion, of course man made faiths to conform with their state of mind or intellect.But later atfter thousands of years we evolve into a more educated people and so new concept of God again was presented to them, another man made concept, and this go on and on, until a few thiousand years ago.monotheism, Judaism, christianity, islam, buddhism, etc also evolved, But with the accelerated evolution, these faith again is threatend with obsolesencs because of of scientific developments and education.In panthroteistic faith, the future religion needs to conform to evolutionary process, This proves that God is always there guiding the change.And it his will that made this a reality in history since the begining of the universe 13 billion years ago, and this will continue to exist until He will completely fulfill His will to infinity, Thats PANTHROTHEISM, the futue, man made religion under His guidance through scientifiic evoluition after the Bi Bang

(By way of analogy, I wouldn't ask you to relativise every statement not based on, say, non-empirical knowledge, so I don't see why I should.)

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