To say that there is a process in the world which operates to increase the structure of value, and to that degree is the embodiment of this structure, does not necessarily imply that the process is teleological in
the ordinary human sense of the word.
Not exact matches
This ability to use vision and touch
sensing to improvise its way to successful task completion makes Baxter highly adaptable to the
ordinary,
human - oriented work conditions found in small - company assembly lines.
«Rely on the
ordinary virtues that intelligent
human beings have relied on for centuries: common
sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience and perseverance.
On the contrary, «fundamentalism has offered
ordinary people of conservative instincts an alternative to liberal faith in
human progress, a way of making
sense out of the world, exerting some control over their lives, and creating a way of life they can believe in.»
Of course, this «more» to
human and cosmic reality need not be transcendent in any
sense other than «beyond»: beyond our present
ordinary awareness and knowledge, perhaps in principle beyond purely scientific avenues of knowledge.
All gods are transcendent, in the
sense of having their being beyond the borders of
ordinary human life.
Ordinary human good
sense, he implies, ought to lead one to just conduct and right religious attitudes.
«Most dazzling
human achievements are, in fact, the aggregate of countless individual elements, each of which is, in a
sense,
ordinary.»
Paik's vision as an artist is about giving the future back to
ordinary human beings who believe in the potential for joy and emotion in the realm of the mind and the
senses.
That's solidly scientific * AND *
ordinary human common -
sense, eh Steven Mosher?
Accordingly, as relatively «right - leaning» individuals become progressively more proficient in making
sense of scientific information (a facility reflected in their scores on the
Ordinary Science Intelligence assessment, which puts a heavy emphasis on critical reasoning skills), they become simultaneously more likely to believe there is «scientific consensus» on
human - caused climate change but less likely to «believe» in it themselves!