Sentences with phrase «on the contradiction shared»

«Watchmen» focuses on the contradiction shared by most superheroes: They can not live ordinary lives but are fated to help mankind.

Not exact matches

In his letter of December 10, 1934 Brightman shares Hartshorne's worry, «that other selves are merely inferred but never given,» and goes on to present his own empiricist colors «I'd like to be able to make sense out of the idea of a literal participation in other selves... whenever I try, I find myself landed in contradiction, in epistemological chaos, and in unfaithfulness to experience...» Brightman's argument is that any «intuition» (for him a synonym for «experience»), «is exclusively a member of me,» but the object of that intuition is «always problematic and distinct from the conscious experience which refers to it.»

The idea that there is a contradiction between these things is a nonsense and it's a view that is shared by many anti-modernisers on the diehard Right (but far from every «Rightie» *).

Director Steven Spielberg's latest combines the most commonly shared notions we have of our 16th U.S. president — the folksy deliberation, the spindly gait, the all - seeing eye on the prize of history remade — with the behavior, idiosyncrasies and contradictions of an actual human being.

She shares some of the same long - term emotional damage Harold inflicted on Danny, but has seemingly found a way to adjust, if not always coexist, with her father and all of his maddening complexities, contradictions, and paradoxes.