Sentences with phrase «ordinary language term»

The mathematical concept of probability and the ordinary language term «probability» are only metaphorically related.

Not exact matches

Because of God's transcendence it would be mythological to refer to God's action in terms appropriate only to objects available, in principle at least, to ordinary sense perception.13 This especially means that one can not speak of God in terms of the categories of time and space; 14 i.e., whatever is predicated of God can not apply only to some particular time and space, but must apply equally to all times and spaces.15 Thus the implication of Ogden's criterion for non-mythological language about God corresponds to his statement of several years ago, that «there is not the slightest evidence that God has acted in Christ in any way different from the way in which he primordially acts in every other event.

Thus perhaps we should conclude that Whitehead uses «perception» in an extended sense, like many other terms he appropriates from ordinary language, such that one need not be conscious to have perceptions in the mode of CE.

Two years of work at a university in western Canada, where I studied with Wittgensteinian defenders of «ordinary language» as well as with Trotskyites and non-Marxist socialists, provided the necessary distance in terms of both ideologies and miles.

Consequently, many of us spent the next decade working through an answer to the question of the meaning of religious language in terms of ordinary experience, in terms of a «revision» or «re-presentation» of the Christian tradition «intelligible to modern minds,» and worked on formulating an appropriate and strong political theology.

This is true not because the church will necessarily feel itself bound by these terms (we are not to feel bound by any terms: God has not called us to bondage, but to freedom), but because what these terms stand for can not be translated into the language either of ordinary speech or of scientific and philosophical discourse.

Now in the case of God, it appears that there are two sorts of causally significant feeling - aspect, the noncategorial and the categorial, and two sorts of resultant disposition, which can be termed «emergent habits» and (with apologies to ordinary language) «eternal habits,» respectively.

A term which is mainly used in slang language to correspond with the ordinary and formal term traditionally named Australian dollar.

Ordinary language, when expressed in mathematics, envisages some smooth slow - varying curve which passes on a middle course through the scattered data, ignoring these rapid changes, but responsive over a longer term to general movement.