Sentences with phrase «ordinary sense of»

It is important to stress that PAS is not always «intentional» in the ordinary sense of that word.

Properly understood, the principle of self - determination, commensurate in the values it incorporates, benefits groups — that is, «peoples» in the ordinary sense of the term — throughout the spectrum of humanity's complex web of interrelationships and loyalties, and not just peoples defined by existing or perceived sovereign boundaries.

When the legislative purpose is properly characterized to include the timely resolution of disputes, there is no reason to resist the grammatical and ordinary sense of the legislation.

The grammatical and ordinary sense of the words used in s. 233 of the Criminal Code supports the conclusion the legislator did not intend to restrict the availability of infanticide to situations where the psychological health of the woman was substantially compromised or where a mental disorder was established.

It only briefly alludes to the personal circumstances of the original plaintiff in the case, pointing out that she was «not an «impoverished» person in the ordinary sense of the word» (which made her ineligible for an exemption from the fees at issue).

[64]... The grammatical and ordinary sense of s. 27 (1) makes plain that notice is required only if certain conditions are met in the particular circumstances.

The grammatical and ordinary sense of the words used in s. 233 of the Criminal Code supports the conclusion the legislator did not intend to restrict the availability of infanticide to situations where the psychological health of the woman was substantially compromised or where a mental disorder was established; the statutory language also shows there is no requirement for a causal connection between the disturbance of the accused's mind and the act or omission causing the child's death; but there is, however, a required link between the disturbance and not having fully recovered from the effects of giving birth to the child or of the effect of lactation consequent on the child's birth ̶ in either case the disturbance must be «by reason thereof».

(i) it was not a policy for exceptional cases because a person was automatically disqualified if he could be likened to another: in order to qualify, a patient must show in effect that he is unique, rather than merely exceptional in the ordinary sense of the word as being «of the nature of or forming an exception; out of the ordinary course, unusual, special.»

Nor are they public authorities in the ordinary sense of the word.

Coming back to «bogan», the big issue in agnotology is not ignorance in the ordinary sense of the term (people who don't know much about political issues, and don't care to learn — that is certainly part of the stereotypical bogan image, and may perhaps be descriptive of the actual demographic groups commonly associated with the term, though I don't know of any evidence of this).

Six days of talking in Bangkok made it clear that the world should plan its response to AIDS on the assumption that there will be no vaccine, in the ordinary sense of the word, to stop the spread of HIV.

«It isn't a movie in the ordinary sense of images you can watch on a screen,» he said.

That most such feelings are not conscious in any ordinary sense of «conscious» is no argument against this position.

So transferring the existential valence of existing to «actuality»» has the logical effect of reducing our ordinary sense of «existing» to that of «self identity» and so picture the act of creation as one of adding existence to already constituted individuals.

So Whitehead's reply to Berkeley is, in effect, that matter really does matter in the ordinary sense of the word, since whatever acquires material existence is always capable of influencing by means of signs the becomings of subsequent «things.»

The identity of power with vulnerability is a great stumbling block to our ordinary sense of what is rational.

(I use the term «duration» here in the ordinary sense of a stretch of time rather than in Whitehead's technical sense of a cross section of the universe.)

These interpreters hold that Jesus used the phrase only in its ordinary sense of «man,» and that some community in which the Gospel tradition was being formed, itself thinking of Jesus as the apocalyptic Son of Man, read that meaning back into Jesus» words.

Still, manifestations of pride, at least in its more ordinary sense of conceit or presumption, have been discernible from the outset.

However, it is far from obvious that the ordinary sense of self - transcendence counts as evidence of an ontological transcendent realm or that self - transcendence provides «pointers» to or «signals» of such a realm, as Berger would have it (A Rumor of Angels [Doubleday Anchor, 1969], pp. 55 ff.).

I, for one, have rather definite views about a range of political topics, but politics, in the ordinary sense of the term, is a small part of subjects addressed in First Things.

So the point of Whitehead's example in the above passage would be that in talking about the membership of the complex structured society which is a total man, in the ordinary sense of the term, one is referring not to a subordinate society, such as the enduring object which is the life, or soul, of the man, but to all the individual actual occasions in all the subordinate societies and subordinate nexus which make up the man.

This assumption does not require any belief in «absolutes» in the ordinary sense of known values that are independent of time and circumstance.

Such aesthetic sensitivity, he suggests, can be learned, although it can not be taught in the ordinary sense of teaching.

Such chronicles have always been fraught with ambiguity and the possibility of misinterpretation, however, and such reckonings have generally been disapproved by the church; Origen and Augustine, among many others, both argued that many of the ages chronicled in the OT are simply of unknowable length, and went on to note that the «days» of the creation story simply can not be «days» in the ordinary sense of the term as the sun isn't created until the fourth «day».

Here I have to propound a paradox (in the ordinary sense of the word).

Not exact matches

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«Now it depends solely on your good sense and your way of life whether you die as an ordinary musician, utterly forgotten by the world, or as a famous kapellmeister, or whom posterity will read... whether, captured by some woman, you die bedded on straw in an attic full of starving children, or whether, after a Christian life spent in contentment, honor, and renown, you leave this world with your family well provided for and your name respected by all.»

god (s): Hebrew word # 430 «elohiym (el - o - heem»); plural of OT: 433; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative: [usages of the word in the] KJV — angels, exceeding, God (gods)- dess, - ly), (very) great, judges, mighty.

The cultural and linguistic barrier between you and the original writer likely means that much of time, their original intent will will not be what seems to you to be the «plain sense of Scripture» or the «primary, ordinary, usual, literal meaning».

In general, while appeal to or reliance upon one's own intuition (in some technically unspecified sense of the term) may satisfy the informal demands of many ordinary, nontechnical contexts, such intuitive conviction — however important heuristically to the individual inquirer — may be of no logical relevance to the job of satisfying the technical demands constitutive of some formal arena of discourse.

Such events can gradually transform the climate of relationships of an ordinary class or couples group, infusing it with a richer sense of belonging and mutual growth support.

A privately studied reading of scripture: «For all of this to make the deep, life - changing, Kingdom - advancing sense it is supposed to,» Wright says, «it is vital that ordinary Christians read, encounter, and study scripture for themselves, in groups and individually.»

Its events belong to the sphere, not of history in the ordinary sense, but of the supra - historical; they can not be objects of historical research because they are discernible only by faith.

Certainly the new element can not simply be separated from one's ordinary life, but by fulfilling the precepts of the catechism and the commandments of the Church and being in this sense a good Christian, we have not yet adequately responded to God's call to our concrete and unique person.

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.

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.

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.

In the ordinary language of educated people logos might mean speech, narrative, pronouncement, report, teaching, call, sense.

So if Santayana is not an «event ontologist» like Whitehead, it is not because he thinks ordinary continuants or «primary substances» are ontologically more basic than events, which he does not, but because he speaks of the derivation of one event from another as the transmission of matter or substance, in the sense of ulh, from one to another.

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.»

And it seemed, nestled as I was among the shopping malls and the subdivisions, that the priesthood was, in the Christian sense, ordinary: Priests saved our souls but were powerless to save our culture, which, it was clear to even a child, was in desperate need of saving.

It illumines the everyday, so that we may find in it shafts of the divine glory that point to God, so that we may sense the eternal significance of ordinary life.

(1) In one sense, «knowledge of God» and «ordinary knowledge» (including theological knowledge — I use these clumsy concepts here mainly to distinguish them and so to argue their relatedness) are related because they set each other off; they help define one another by spelling out what each is not.

The modern tendency to deconstruct and demythologize religion has deprived it of its rich myths, symbols and rituals — and of a sense of the sacred imbued in the ordinary.

Worship space should make us aware of our senses, remove us from the ordinary experiences of life, and prepare us for worship and fellowship.

Many ordinary people sense in this thinking, in the case of criminal acts, a callously intellectualized disregard for the victim of crime.

The first five of these types of natural occurrence are easily accessible to sense perception (aided perhaps by instruments of observation), the sixth, however, is not available to ordinary sense perception.

Instead of investing theological significance in a theory about how the mind intuits objects of sense data, or about the reality of the world external to consciousness, or about the extent to which the mind is creative in producing experience, Green focuses on the role of imagination, a term which refers in ordinary conversation to fantasy and illusion, but which also refers to discovery, illumination and reality.

He is, rather, a very complex structured society which sustains, among many other societies, a regnant, personally ordered, subordinate society (an enduring object) which Whitehead refers to as «the soul of which Plato spoke» (Adventures of Ideas 267 — see also pp. 263 - 264 for a clear statement of the distinction between «the ordinary meaning of the term «man,» which includes the total bodily man, and the narrow sense of «man,» where «man» is considered a person in Whitehead's technical sense, i.e., as the regnant, personally ordered society which he identifies as his equivalent of Descartes» thinking substance and Plato's soul).