Sentences with phrase «other than the assertions»

I'm not finding anything other than assertions of «uncertainty» for low climate sensitivity.

And you really have no idea whether the procedures in place to safeguard whatever level of privacy we are allowed to have are actually working, other than the assertion of earnest people that they are, in fact, working.

Not exact matches

There is evidence for the assertion that the universe is all physical though, the complete lack of objective evidence for anything other than a physical universe.

The assertion that it is of God's essence to exist does not imply that nothing other than existing can be of God's essence.

As debate continues over President Obama's assertion about the religious nature (or lack thereof) of the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group, a new Pew Research Center study finds that more Americans across the board believe that Islam encourages violence more than other religions.

But, then, any such theory is fallacious because it implicitly asserts that alternatives in respects other than those marked by the nonteleological principle are morally indifferent, and that assertion is a moral evaluation of the alternatives in those other respects.

Style aside, though, I simply can not find an assertion anywhere in its pages that strikes me as anything other than either a plain statement of fact or a reasonable statement of Christian principle.

This assertion is not meant to imply that religion is either false or ultimately nothing more than the fabrication of human minds — indeed, Berger argues in other writings that the transcendent seems to break through humanly constructed worlds, as it were, from the outside, However, the social scientist must recognize the degree to which religion, like all symbol systems, involves human activity.

No real assertion other than the already conceeded point that he still can't find empirical fact.

Genuine tolerance, it turns out, requires the assertion of one's own convictions about the truth no less than the acknowledgement of other points of view.

One way, certainly, of making the claim for the extraordinary significance of Hartshorne's work for Christian theology is to say that he has done more than any other thinker on the scene to clarify, if not to solve, the problems raised by both parts of this assertion.

If, on the one hand, this assertion is construed objectively, as asserting that God is the eminent object of experience, because the only individual other than ourselves whom we experience directly and universally, it can be shown to be true both literally and necessarily, on the understanding that such immediate experience of God can become knowledge of God, or even experience of God as God, only through the mediation of concepts and terms.

Philosophy properly and adequately analyzes God's necessary aspects, but can not tell us what his contingent aspects are, other than the bare assertion that there are such contingent aspects, features of God's activity which happen to be so but just as well could have been otherwise.

Felix, I'm not sure there was assertion that only Christians voted for GW Bush, rather merely that the Christians who did vote for GW Bush tend to wear their religion on the sleaves and push their agenda more so than others.

Please, people like you have no purpose other than to spew you moronic assertions thinking it makes you awesome.

Such choices are prompted by nothing other than the individual subject and his private conscience acting either on persuasive evidence or the arbitrary assertion of will.

[9] Rather than being willful self - assertion, his gift of self needs to be «disinterested,» i.e. not self - centred, but for the sake of the other who was willed by the Creator «for his / her own sake», and who has a destiny in God.

I am (a) A victim of child molestation (b) A r.ape victim trying to recover (c) A mental patient with paranoid delusions (d) A Christian The only discipline known to often cause people to kill others they have never met and / or to commit suicide in its furtherance is: (a) Architecture; (b) Philosophy; (c) Archeology; or (d) Religion What is it that most differentiates science and all other intellectual disciplines from religion: (a) Religion tells people not only what they should believe, but what they are morally obliged to believe on pain of divine retribution, whereas science, economics, medicine etc. has no «sacred cows» in terms of doctrine and go where the evidence leads them; (b) Religion can make a statement, such as «there is a composite god comprised of God the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit», and be totally immune from experimentation and challenge, whereas science can only make factual assertions when supported by considerable evidence; (c) Science and the scientific method is universal and consistent all over the World whereas religion is regional and a person's religious conviction, no matter how deeply held, is clearly nothing more than an accident of birth; or (d) All of the above.

Not only was that assertion completely at odds with the uncertain state of the existing science, but it was contradicted by the study itself, in which Dr. McKee and her colleagues acknowledged that several other factors, besides prior participation in football, may influence CTE risk and disease severity, including factors other than cumulative hits to the head, and admitted that it was even «unclear» what roles concussions and repetitive subconcussive hits play in CTE risk, disease severity, and progression.

Either Lord Boateng really believes that AV departs from the principle of One Man One Vote and that under AV some votes are counted more often than others — in which case he hasn't given the matter sufficient attention: or he knows perfectly well that both assertions are nonsense, but he makes them anyway, in which case... well, you can finish the sentence.

The data (EDIT: Provided by the OP) also doesn't support that (EDIT: the OP's assertion that) American's love the constitution more than other countries because we do not have a similar line for rate at which another country's constitution is googled by their citizens (What's the trend of Canadians googling the Canadian Constitution?).

Battered ethics, in many manifestations, continues to plague the Cuomo administration, in spite of his oft repeated assertion his administration has done more than any other in 60 years to clean up Albany.

Assertions were made that there is no discipline when an employee violates work rules and accordingly some employees are «allowed» to report late for work, leave for extended periods, take unauthorized leaves of absence, start their workday later than other employees, and leave at 2:30 pm effectively ending their workday early.

echidna - test requires nothing other than simple Solidity assertions to find deep bugs and comes with a clear UI to make understanding its output easy.

(p. 222) It does not seem unfair to expect the authors to provide evidence, other than the fact of differentiation, to support these assertions, or to say what is being done in traditional public schools that better prepares students for life in a democratic society.

She cites no data other than her own impressions from classroom observations and the assertions of advocates of reform - oriented instruction.

Not only does Wright's study bear out three decades of research on overuse of discipline (including those than control for socioeconomic status), it even proves Vanderbilt Professor Daniel J. Reschly's assertion about the role of teacher beliefs (and misinterpretation of data) in the overidentification of Black and other minority children as special ed cases.

That's nice for the «universe of authors,» but yet again it does not mean that individual authors can not do equally well at $ 14.99 (or any other price point above $ 9.99) than they would at that $ 9.99 price point, nor should that assertion mean that publisher should be required to sell their wares at that price point if they choose not to.

The company hasn't specifically responded to the assertions other than to note that seven of nine directors are independent and that Richardson is a «strong» source, sidestepping the more direct concerns.

While only time will tell if the assertion of Dr. Moors is correct, it is undeniable that the share prices for oil companies have been strong for reasons other than the basics of supply and demand.

It's a well known assertion, at least in real estate circles, that more people have become wealthy in the USA through real estate than any other pursuit.

His city's assertion that «pit bulls are more dangerous than other breeds of dog» has withstood legal challenges, he said.

Revealing and obscuring in equal measure with its kaleidoscopic collision of shimmering tones, Abstraktes Bild confirms the assertion of the American curator, critic and artist Robert Storr: «It is hard to think of [Richter] as anything other than one of the great colourists of late 20th - century painting».

Baer's famous letter to the editor of Artforum in 1967, a rebuttal of Donald Judd and Robert Morris's assertion in that publication that painting was inferior to sculpture, remains a key text from a seminal period when certain voices were a lot louder than others.

Thanks, but what is the evidence for your assertion that methane from «cow farts» is very much less important than other agricultural practices?

What observations do you offer that would encourage this other than claiming the last 3 years (2005 hottest) or last twelve (’98 hottest) equal global cooling when they are all among the hottest years in the last 2 million (a fundamentally flawed assertion that shows 100 % ignorance, or willful disregard, of basic scientific principles, namely that a three — twelve year period is not a long - term trend, but is variability until proven otherwise.)

Do you have anything other than argument by assertion?

Global warming believers need only to counter dry recitations of skeptic science material with assertions about the numbers of «IPCC scientists», declare this to be the settled consensus opinion, then claim there is leaked memo evidence proving skeptics are paid industry money to «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» — hoodwink the public, in other words.

William: Yes, however, there are sets of other observations that logically supports the assertion that the majority of the warming in the last 150 years was due to solar magnetic cycle changes rather than the increase in atmospheric CO2 and that the planet is about to significantly cool due to the current solar magnetic cycle change.

One has to look to the other macroscopic force which is conspicuously absent from the GHG assertions (can't call the «equations» because such don't exist), gravity, to explain the 3 %, in the case of Earth, and 125 %, in the case of Venus, greater surface than orbital temperatures (take those figures to the 4th power for equivalent energy densities) seen in all planetary atmospheres, and indeed all gravitational wells.

Other than waving your hands, what evidence do you have for making this assertion?

There has been almost no coverage in the American press about the ethical duties of governments, organizations, businesses, and individuals to reduce the threat of climate change other than occasional general assertions by some activists or members of a religious groups referring to climate change as a moral issue.

I'll leave it to others on analyzing the rest of Niose's assertions in his «Anti-intellectualism Is Killing America» piece, he's quite vulnerable on more than one.

Any empirical evidence to back up that assertion, other than Team Mosher's «invisible unicorns» claiming it's so.

PDA, It does not help at all, since your assertion is not supported by anything other than your wishing it were so.

Could provide evidence - more than this assertion by yourself or others?

Other than Ryan's assertion is there currently any evidence for Steig to be reviewer A?

Rather than bother you and other posters here any further with assertions that may be irrelevant, I will do some more research first.

Just as Judge Boswell correctly demanded a court cite for the ADA's assertion that Wilson did have the «right» to pro se, she should have made the demand of Wilson if for no other reason than a test of Wilson's ability to handle a trial.

My sense however from talking with lawyers across the country is that the assertion («(L) awyers do morepro bono work than any other profession») of an innate pro bono culture has widespread currency in the private Bar.