Sentences with phrase «only a distinction which»

There is a close parallel in the interaction of metaphorical language and literal language; there is no sharp line between the two, but only a distinction which is relative, shifting, and contextdependent.31 «Man is a wolf» invites reflection not only on wolf - life characteristics of man, but also on man - like characteristics of the wolf, which is seen thereafter as more human.

Not exact matches

It now has the distinction of being the only Smurf village in the world (that we know of) and the town hosts regular tours and events — some related to mushrooms, for which the area is known, and which both Smurfs and Spaniards love.

The French property market now has the dubious distinction of being the most overvalued in Europe and the third most overvalued market in the world, behind only Hong Kong and Australia [4], which have property bubbles of their own.

The nature by birth of any Westerner is not better than the nature of any Muslim Arab or Turk, it is only the true faith which could make a distinction.

We do not just go to the world; rather, we bring with us beliefs which determine the kind of data we select.2 The traditional distinction between reason and faith in which the scientist uses only the cold light of reason while the theologian uses the light of faith is not strictly true.

Only the dualistic form of the modern Western consciousness, which is grounded in an absolute distinction between the subject and the object of consciousness, instills us with the seemingly irrevocable sense that the world or reality stands wholly outside of consciousness itself.

Nor did the list - making approach play to the strong suit of Thomism, which requires not only definitions and conclusions but also a deeply textured set of questions and distinctions.

Evolutionists have been very clear about this distinction of fact and theory from the very beginning, if only because we have always acknowledged how far we are from completely understanding the mechanisms (theory) by which evolution (fact) occurred.

Those familiar with Hartshorne may immediately notice that Brightman's distinction between the given and The Given precisely parallels Hartshorne's distinction between relative and absolute — and the whole host of phenomena which may be distinguished as either externally or internally related to one another.39 In Hartshorne's language, The Given is only externally related to the given, while the given is internally related to The Given.

Not only does he fail to utilize the terminological distinction which Mays adopts, Whitehead controverts it, for here he acknowledges the scope of metaphysics and cosmology as equally general.

Although only two categories, this distinction manages to reflect the broad diversity which exists among atheists when it comes to their positions on the existence of gods.

This similarity between mythical thinking and the I - Thou relation is made explicit through Professor (and Mrs.) Frankfort's use of Buber's distinction between I - It and I - Thou, their identification of myth with the dynamically reciprocal I - Thou relation in which every faculty of man is involved, and their recognition of the unique and unpredictable character of the Thou — «a presence known only in so far as it reveals itself.»

This perspective unmistakably reveals the unwholesomeness, not to put it more strongly, of our way of life: our obsession with sex, violence, and the pornography of «making it;» our addictive dependence on drugs, «entertainment,» and the evening news; our impatience with anything that limits our sovereign freedom of choice, especially with the constraints of marital and familial ties; our preference for «nonbinding commitments;» our third - rate educational system; our third - rate morality; our refusal to draw a distinction between right and wrong, lest we «impose» their morality on us; our reluctance to judge or be judged; our indifference to the needs of future generations, as evidence by our willingness to saddle them with a huge national debt, an overgrown arsenal of destruction, and a deteriorating environment; our unsated assumption, which underlies so much of the propaganda for unlimited abortion, that only those children born for success ought to be allowed to be born at all.

Baptismal water was the universal solvent not only of traditional religious distinctions within Judaism but also of the foundation stones on which the ancient city rested; for the church, it was the sole initiation and was not confined to a single family, clan, race, or social class.

But what is arresting in this passage, in comparison with the others cited earlier, is the distinction Hartshorne explicitly makes between our merely feeling «the inclusive something,» only some of the abstract aspects of which are we likely to think about when we speak of it as «truth» or «reality,» and our consciously realizing, and thus thinking instead, that this inclusive something has to be «an inclusive experience,» which as such is «the model of all experiences.»

Such passages as these not only contain an exact affirmation of the essence of the eucharistic mystery, but also make an equally exact distinction between the essential mystery and the further effects in which its fecundity is manifested: the growth of Christ's mystical body, the consecration of the cosmos.

Assuming this distinction, which turns upon his more basic distinction between «all,» «some,» and «none,» he can assert that God's love and knowledge differ in principle from ours without denying, as he appears to do, that the difference is still not absolute and hence expressible only in nonliteral concepts.

As we now turn to practical Modernism, which is best represented in American Protestantism, it must be pointed out first of all that it is possible to make only a theoretical distinction between these two types of Modernism.

Luther's distinction between law and gospel seems to express this view, as does the vision of the twentieth «century Polish mystic St. Faustina Kowalska, which portrays a wrathful God the Father holding back from the application of terrible justice only because He sees man through the wounds of His Son.

One Catholic university, which had for years professed that it «does not discriminate on the basis of age, sex, race, handicap, color, (or) religion» and «welcomes applications without distinction on the basis of race or religious beliefs,» discovered that Catholics had thereby declined from 70 percent to 59 percent of its student body in only ten years.

Our very Constitution binds us, that is to say, the very breath of our political nostrils binds us, to disown all distinctions among men, to disregard persons, to disallow privilege the most established and sacred, to legislate only for the common good, no longer for those accidents of birth or wealth or culture which spiritually individualize man from his kind, but only for those great common features of social want and dependence which naturally unite him with his kind, and inexorably demand the organization of such unity....

Christian ethics must make this distinction, else we not only shall lose the Ten Commandments from Christianity but will be obliged to ascribe to Paul a disregard of the moral law at variance with the moral concern which appears on every page of his letters.

The second metaphysically important distinction is between any abstraction and a fully concrete actuality, the latter being one that no mere concept can fully express, and which can be given only in perception, and adequately given only in divine perception.

Hence, what for Bradley is a distinction between thought and sensation, which as such can only be established as a distinction between levels of reality, is for Whitehead a distinction between past and present, dative and con - crescent actual entities.

Indeed, as they would have it, the signifiers of which all discourse is comprised only bear upon themselves the traces of still other signifiers, so that the very distinction between the signifier and the signified proves in the end to be an utter delusion.

That and our «third - rate educational system, our third - rate morality, our refusal to draw a distinction between right and wrong lest we «impose» our morality on others and thus invite others to «impose» their morality onus, our reluctance to judge or be judged, our indifference to the needs of future generations as evidenced by our willingness to saddle them with a huge national debt, an overgrown arsenal of destruction, and a deteriorating environment; our inhospitable attitude to the newcomers born in our midst, our unstated assumption which underlies so much of the propaganda for unlimited abortion that only those children born for success ought to be allowed to be born at all.»

In dealing with these data there are several distinctions which can be made, and the historian must deal critically not only with the materials but also with the distinctions.

Bella Vista also has the distinction of being one of only 12 restaurants in California (and the only one in Santa Barbara) licensed to cure its own meats as well as the only Italian restaurant in the region to offer Genovese Pesto — a signature tribute to Genoa, Italy, which is Chef Marco's birthplace.

The grand distinction of the U.S. Open was that its final 36 holes were played in one day through which the winner not only had to display the best possible golf but nerve and stamina as well.

The only other returnee is Forward Brad Snyder, PURDUE, which shares with Wisconsin the distinction of having won the most Big Ten titles (13 apiece), faces a substantial drop in the standings.

This distinction affected which of the above categories the child fell into, but could only affect the answer to the original poster's question if subsequent events caused the new category to become «child of an enemy» instead of «child of an invited guest».

But that district has the distinction of being the only one in the state in which multiple Republicans have been raising money.

This elite distinction, which is held by only top - tier cancer centers nationwide, recognizes innovative research and excellence in patient care.

The Love Nest has the distinction of being the only film in this series in which Keaton took sole writing and directing credit.

The Golden Globes, which were handed out last weekend, are the only major awards to make a distinction between drama and «musical or comedy», and Martin McDonagh's new film, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, duly walked away with four of the coveted awards, including Best Motion Picture.

The end of the film features a «battle royale» between the motley array of mostly no - name costumed good guys and costumed bad guys, which begs the question as to how most of these characters who are seeing each other for the first time can draw the distinction between them to make sure they are only fighting nemeses on the other side of the law.

The plant is aiming to achieve LEED Gold certification, which would make it the only auto assembly plant in Brazil to earn the distinction.

They establish distinctions and reserves which I can not apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole; my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.

It was a «natural consequence of this state of things,» one doctor from the era wrote, seeing that «very few persons entitled by birth or other advantageous circumstances... would condescend to study, much less engage in the practice of medicine,» thus «poor and ambitious young men from the provinces were induced to repair to Paris and enter upon the study of the only profession through which they could expect to obtain distinction and worldly prosperity.»

Of the fifteen students in the class, only three of us earned that distinction, which was a rare moment of validation.

The Samsung Galaxy Tab is the latest entrant to the million tablets club that was till now playing host to only the Apple's iPad, which also holds the unique distinction of being the founder member of the prestigious club.

This is an important distinction from regular auto insurance, which only pays the actual value of your vehicle at the time of the incident.

A favorite dive is the USS Liberty Wreck, which has the distinction of being the only ship in the world sunk by a lava flow.

What we have instead is a simplistic course, with a repetitive theme which has the infamous distinction of being one of the only Mario Kart tracks which requires you to brake.

Having evolved from the participatory and pedagogical art project Sponge (2006 — 2016), the Sponge HQ «attached itself» to the university much the way a sea sponge (which has the distinction of being the only adult animal that doesn't move) attaches itself to a marine reef.

This really remarkable display, which will go down in N. Y.'s art history as one of the few events — for there is a wide distinction between incidents and events, in said history — and which has already excited, not only the galleries, studios and the art public, but even the larger public of the Metropolis which, although perhaps comparatively ignorant on the subject of art, is always athirst for a new sensation — is like a «bomb from the blue & quot; in the artistic camp of American painters and sculptors.

So it was very surprising indeed when a whole group of British sculptors, not only Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth, whose reputations were already made, but including a younger generation of sculptors, won many prizes and distinctions with work which was acclaimed and exhibited throughout Europe and North and South America.

The catalogue features two double - page spreads of major paintings: «Lotus Eater» from 1974 and «Tuxedo Junction» from 1965/74, the latter having the distinction of being one of the only remaining works which DeFeo worked on while she worked on «The Rose.»

If the only conclusion drawn from my argumentation is that every event is natural, that's OK, but my linky and larger point was that there is a larger discussion over the environment as a «thing», a distinction which allows the environment to be devalued (and allows the environmental movement to be seen as a special interest).

One can only assume this is part of a more general negotiating stance (pervasive throughout the text, and in other negotiations for that matter) in which the US wants to do away with the distinctions made at the first Rio Earth Summit 20 years ago between rich and poor countries.