Sentences with phrase «only by the existence»

Further, such an assumption, Whitehead urges, dispenses with the necesslty to believe that the constancy of the velocity of light is pertinent to spatio - temporal structure, for that structure is predetermined only by the existence in nature of interrelated spacetime frames (CN 193).6

Since then, he has dedicated his career to trying to find a sign — any sign — that can be explained only by the existence of technologically advanced alien life.

Not exact matches

After an exhaustive analysis, the only factor all companies had in common was that they had all reached profitability by the second year of their existence.

Was it the guys at Secret who launched the app, got uptake in the app, then were allowed by investors to sell millions of stocks after only six months of being in existence?

And finally... The world's rarest passport is issued by an order of medieval knights — and there are only three in existence.

Because the existence of the implied call option means that demand «normally» would have pulled the index above 4,500, and was only prevented from doing so by the implied call itself.

The value of a Bitcoin is determined in part by supply and demand — the system is set up so that there are only a finite number of Bitcoins in existence, which prevents the problem of people just «printing» more Bitcoins the way crumbling governments have in places like Germany in the 1920s.

The size and existence of the modern state is limited only by the ability to borrow money; an ability dependent on the continuing value of fiat paper money.

Joining a DOGE community will let you not only know about this specific cryptocurrency but also increase its visibility online by exposing it to all those users who might not have known its existence.

The only way to find compatibility in such a worldview is by accepting a religion with no authority on the most meaningful matters of human existence.»

The only atheists I don't like are those that are offended by my very existence.

Evil persecutes God and his followers... but can not harm any of God's children or God who is existence - only when evil perverts them individuals or confused them individuals by deceit can then harm mankind when the individual departs from the side of the lord our Heavenly God... San Peter denied Jesus one's or twice but never God himself... not once...

I'm not sure what I said to lead you to believe that I am «throwing out the most proven and fundamental laws of science» since I'm pretty sure that none of the laws that you mention describe a need for the past to be gone and the future to not exist yet, and I was only forwarding a theoretical possibility with apparently good evidence as far as I can tell to address the question «Why would matter come into existence all by itself for no good reason?»

I would prefer death to my current existence, if only to help tight - assed prigs like yourself rake in the big bux you have earned by lying and cheating your way through these tough economic times that people like you created almost singlehandedly whenever you got the chance.

The existence of God can only be dis - proven by factual evidence, none of which has been produced against it.

That just as all the products we use came into existence through a mind, these being consistent with reality, so likewise of not only the earth with its marvelous ecological systems, but all the universe by which we keep time, from the passing of one day to the passing of one year allowing to keep track of time, that all these diverse, but harmonious systems are the product of a Supreme Designer for the benefit and enjoyment of mankind.

Although she never reveals her real name (effaced now under the patronymic «Offred»), the Handmaid begins her tale in the old high school gymnasium by recalling youthful «expectation, of something without a shape or name» (p. 3), preserving, like Israel in exile, the time of hope, and returning in memory to the sources of existence as the only way forward.

no one can disprove the existence of any gods, especially those that have been placed beyond the reach of the corporeal by their followers, yet it is likely that you consider your the only.

Hence, only the first interpretation is meaningful, and it can not be used to deduce from the existence of (genuine) moral evil the nonexistence of benevolent omnipotence, since «whether the free men created by God would always do what is right would presumably be up to them» (GPE 271).

By the way, Vic, if you really want to do this without sounding silly focus on the idea of sentience, which arguably is NOT necessary for evolution, but only the existence of something that mimics sentience.

While Tillich provides a system to overcome the subject - object dilemma of Cartesianism, he denies that Being - itself is actually increased or decreased by events, i.e., it is not in process, and, therefore, does not share in human adventures.5 Camus» position implies that if there is a God, such a God would be tolerable only if God is involved in the struggle of man's existence.

And he who is begotten by a progressive dying away from self, of him it becomes increasingly clear that he can less and less be said to be begotten, since he only becomes more and more clearly reminded of his existence.

But play serves this purpose only incidentally and ex post facto, presenting by its very existence the possibility of a different social order.

Therefore true faith is radical inwardness or subjectivity, it comes into existence by a negation of objectivity, and can only maintain itself by a continual process, or repetition, of negating objectivity.

In his essay «The Religious Meaning of Myth and Symbol,» Altizer continues this same theme: «The sacred can be actualized only by means of a dissolution of profane existence.

The recording of an external likeness was denounced by the third - century neo-Platonist philosopher Plotinus, who refused to allow his portrait to be painted, in part because he believed it only an «image of an image» (in true Platonist fashion), and in part because he rejected his material existence, claiming that its mortal fragility demonstrated that it was essentially untrue and unreal.

I am saying, for one thing, that violence is the general rule for the existence of societies — including the societies that call themselves civilized but have only camouflaged violence by explaining and justifying it and putting a good face on it.

Humani Generis by Pope Pius XII is a recent exception, but in that letter, a scientific theory was touched on only peripherally: that is, as the theory of evolution applied to the larger question of reason and its ability to reveal the existence of a personal God and the spiritual soul.

The dissolution of this opposition takes place only when each form of the Godhead, by virtue of its inherent independence, dissolves itself in itself: «Therefore that element which has for its essence, not independent self - existence but simple being, is what empties and abandons itself, gives itself unto death, and so reconciles Absolute Being with its own self.»

«My notion would be that anything which possesses any sort of power to affect another, or to be affected by another, if only for a single moment, however trifling the cause and however slight the effect, has real existence.

The law was given not only to outline human existence by a revealed set of dos and don'ts, but also to turn the people Godward in every movement and moment of their lives.

First, it must again be stressed that the eschatological message of Jesus, the preaching of the coming of the Kingdom and of the call to repentance, can be understood only when one considers the conception of man which in the last analysis underlies it, and when one remembers that it can have meaning only for him who is ready to question the habitual human self - interpretation and to measure it by this opposed interpretation of human existence.

His celebrated saying that existence precedes essence, once it is translated into classical terms, means only that non-being precedes the essences formally constructed by human thought.

Those who think God can not mean well toward us because he «sends» us suffering can prove their point only by showing that there is a way to run the universe, compatible with the existence of other real powers than just the supreme power, which would be more fully in accord with the totality of interests, or by showing that God sends us the suffering while himself remaining simply outside it, in the enjoyment of sheer bliss.

Although the blindingly evidential etiology of the man's statements lay far outside these cloistered monastery walls, who, while being graphically illustrated by the utterly impotent insanity of this monkish maelstrom, I'd still bet this whole monk - world thing owes its very inception and existence to one woman and one woman only,, the woman who first broke the heart of some long - ago - loser, some cowardly imbecilic pre-monk who mistakenly sought refuge on a rock - strewn and fallow hillside long long ago.

He is present to us only in his absence, and to know the absent or the missing God is to know a void that must be filled with despair and rebellion, an Angst deriving from a ressentiment that is itself created by an inability to bear a full existence in the present moment.

It confirms how completely Christ in his coming shares our condition, for it is obvious that we are required, by the terms of our existence, to get only glimpses into those larger questions which give our lives their greatest significance.

Not only is the mutable world separated from its divine principle — the One — by intervals of emanation that descend in ever greater alienation from their source, but because the highest truth is the secret identity between the human mind and the One, the labor of philosophy is one of escape: all multiplicity, change, particularity, every feature of the living world, is not only accidental to this formless identity, but a kind of falsehood, and to recover the truth that dwells within, one must detach oneself from what lies without, including the sundry incidentals of one's individual existence; truth is oblivion of the flesh, a pure nothingness, to attain which one must sacrifice the world.

Scientific discoveries in physics or biology do not disprove the existence of God, but in my view do just the opposite by uncovering some of awe inspiring complexities of this universe that could only have come about through a creator.

This is the one and only creation that can bring life and death by simple existence.

thinks, that the Tigris and the Euphrates have not a common source, that the Dead Sea had been in existence long before human beings came to live in Palestine, instead of originating in historical times, and so on... We are able to comprehend this as the naive conception of the men of old, but we can not regard belief in the literal truth of such accounts as an essential of religious conviction... And every one who perceives the peculiar poetic charm of these old legends must feel irritated by the barbarian — for there are pious barbarians — who thinks he is putting the true value upon these narratives only when he treats them as prose and history.

The clown not only stands outside and over against the sphere of ordinary existence; he revalues it and refreshes it by standing at the same time most deeply within it.

In effect, for Craig, the existence of a personal Creator ex nihilo, and only that, is established by the argument.

Islam mentioned this for the longest time and as you can imagine, at a time when people had no access or means to verify those claims (people like yourself, opted to disbelief and argue about the existence of God) but now that those scientific «discoveries» became realities and the same as supported by the Quran (that was sent to Prophet Mohammed, Peace and Blessings be upon him), from God), it only solidifies Islam as the true religion of God.

We need only recall those moments in time of war when, wrested out of ourselves by the force of a collective passion, we have a sense of rising to a higher level of human existence.

Only by radically surrendering every form of self - contrived security and trusting solely in the grace of God, which transcends the world as its final ground and end, can men achieve an authentic human existence.

These are not the only possible or actual views of existence after death, and we are licensed to criticize Hartshorne for speaking as if they were by Hartshorne's own criteria of evaluation.

By speaking of «time» within the occasion, we are speaking figuratively, as we shall soon argue that there is no time within the occasion and that time comes into existence only at satisfaction.

Under this view, becoming connotes only the nontemporal process by which something that does not yet exist comes into existence.»

And the REASON they do so is because after considering the evidence, not proof but evidence, they have determined that this being revealed in scripture is by far the most plausible explanation for not only their own existence but also for that of the entire universe.