Sentences with phrase «only generalities»

I just can't fathom how anyone lends validity to such precise statements when only generalities can be extracted from tree rings.

The above are only generalities, and both sides of the breed have some degree of the other's traits.

It's surprising, then, that the script offers only generalities instead of any real insight.

Their critique does not affect the presence of fat tails, only the generality of the reasons underlying its occurrence).

Although this is only a generality, it is usually accepted that it is so.

Not exact matches

That change in my thinking only occurred because I found myself lumped in with someone's generalities about whites.

Unencumbered, he could indulge in generalities that committed him only to his own opinion: «Novelists must be heroic in affirming life»; there are such things as «human nature,» «universal values,» and «a universal human morality.»

Academic generalists are regarded with pity, condescension, or contempt and usually find it possible to survive in the academic scramble only by redeeming their generality through affiliation with one of the specialized disciplines.

While Universal Algebra does have its moments, it is rich mathematically only insofar as Whitehead transcends the generality of his algebraic manifolds and deals in the specifics of Boolean algebra or Grassmannian manifolds.

He writes concerning them: «We are dealing here, as Plato already knew, with truths such as can be communicated adequately to the generality of mankind only in the form of myths.»

It is worth noting that a theory of great generality is usually abandoned only in favour of an alternative theory, not just because of conflicting data.

They differ only in respect to the degree of generality of their disclosures.

The claims for poetry that emerge at the end of this passage are not only bold, they are very general; their boldness and their generality are alike problematic.

That is, nothing is experienced in its generality (as it is for all), but only in its singularity (as it is experienced by this person at this moment).

When he discusses «the hierarchy of societies composing our present epoch,» he says he is «deserting metaphysical generality» and only «considering the more special possibilities of explanation consistent with our general cosmological doctrine, but not necessitated by it» (PR 147).

Nevertheless the fact remains that this conception of despotic force is for him, as for the generality of mankind, the only conception of Divine Power.

Only what is «actual» and in creation is generically characterized by the ultimate generality, This means that there are fundamental entities in Whitehead's cosmology which are not species of the genus «creativity.»

There are only two metaphysical principles in virtue of which the existence of an actual entity can be inferred; to wit, the principle of efficient causation, and the ontological principle, in virtue of which any generality of character shared among entities presupposes a character of generality.

Those criteria are also held to have metaphysical generality, that is, they are valid not only for human beings, but for any possible state of reality.

We often discern God's will only in pious generalities or after the fact and are reduced to aping the world's own wisdom or mouthing Christian truisms.

In a broader context, the possibility of operationalizing Whitehead's metaphysics politically though the stimulation of Deutsch's model can only serve to relate Whitehead's abstract generalities more fully to the concrete world from which they spring.

On a level of less generality, one can ask whether the process paradigm serves not only to describe the Passage of Nature but also to mark certain cultural passages.

Using the notion of generality, Whitehead wants to point out that mathematics always seeks expressions which, taking up the notions of the variable and of form, are able to unite as great a subdivision of mathematics as possible, using only one uniform formalism.

Given the extreme generality involved, it is evident that such a question can only be approached wearing very high heels.

This reverse movement occurs, from the traditional process perspective, only when the study of the particulars displays a limitation in the generalities as generalities.

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.

I acknowledge you are speaking in generalities about temper tantrums and «equality is only with you agree with me», but that is far from how I feel.

Pressed on specifics by reporters Tuesday after an unrelated news conference on crime statistics, the mayor spoke only in generalities, saying he relied on lawyers to interpret what they could and couldn't do.

This cock and bull stories should be told to only NPP members and not Ghanaians in generality,» he said.

Mr. Commisso has put out what he says is a plan to rein in city costs, but a close look reveals only broad generalities and financial targets.

This means that they will only talk in vague generalities and rarely bring up specific events.

The movie gradually builds to a rousing climax of patriotism and determination, but even then, it highlights how Darkest Hour seems primarily to have generalities and broad sentiments on its mind, with only a little thought to the complexities of its central figure.

Brian Lynn of Outdoor Life online had this to say about the pros and cons of both male and female dogs: «While we can only speak in generalities, males often tend to challenge you mentally.

Larry Groff: The Painting Center has an essay about your upcoming show on their website says that you recalled vividly that Fairfield Porter «likened painting to poetry in urging the consideration of «particularization of experience» Porter also said along this line of thinking: «You can only buck generalities by attention to fact,» Porter continued.

Driving these roads and byways at speed reduces the visual experience from detail to generality and we never can reproduce the whole picture of the trip, only scattered elements as if they had been caught by a strobe light.

Presenting these photographs in a simple, straightforward way allows the viewer not only to study the generalities of the subject implied by the building's classification, but also to see what is unique and individualistic.»

This is Purism of a sort, in which generality does not contain variables but excludes them, in which the basic diagram or color, the only continuity, is exposed, here the essence of a confused sequence of perceptions.»

«Using irresponsible generalities, Johnson compares women and African - American artists to white male artists, only to find them lacking.»

Simplistic without the grace of simplicity, generality - strewen without general applicability, relying on inference from dataset rather than mathematical analyses of data, following none of the usual rules of hypothesis testing nor verifiability, unvalidated, sometimes specious and occasionally jumping from the subject to throw in a slide about a red dot on a grid that could only be described as propaganda, unless one chooses to describe it as false, the «Pope Theory» is far from infallible.

The Pope did not speak only of generalities, however, but pointed to specific goals for the upcoming climate conference to be held in Paris several days from now.

It's about predicting generalities and things which have to happen anyway (drought in California, Australia, monsoon failures in India, Western Pacific horror cyclones etc) and only half - attributing fresh disasters to AGW (``... while we can not say that any single event is etc, nonetheless this latest event is consistent with models etc.»).

Having taken a cursory look at the DOJ's study, I agree with Bob's criticism and in fact, given the generality of the questions put forward as to what constitutes a «justiciable» problem, I'm actually impressed (in a positive sense) that only 44.6 % of respondents report experiencing an issue in the three years prior to the study.

Searching has been made «more efficient» or more «user friendly» only for those who don't already have a good idea of what they want so begin with generalities and then start narrowing.

Any inquiry into whether juries are habitually applying invalid myths and stereotypes can only begin with proof that they are acquitting at a rate which is significantly higher than in the generality of trials for indictable only offences.

Sweeping generalities implying «this is the only way to do job search» or «there is only one tool you'll need» limit a job seeker's potential.

Not only of the administrators in a particular school, but of a school board in supporting the teachers in these programs, rather than giving us broad generalities.

(7AAA) Without limiting the generality of subsection (7), a Proclamation under that subsection may be expressed to apply only in relation to one or more of the following:

Until our industry recognizes that raising the level of professionalism will be as a result of public education, it's whistling in the wind — bound hand and foot unable to address what needs addressing head on — forever speaking only in generalities.

While it doesn't close for another couple of weeks, I am only going to share in generalities.