Sentences with phrase «oversimplification which»

Mark Elliott argues the new wording is an unhelpful oversimplification which raises fundamental questions about the relationship between different types of legal norms.

I thus conclude, within the oversimplification which is excusable for this kind of capsule argument, that apologetics or evangelism should not be thought of as constituting a distinctive mode of theological discourse for which we would need a specific definition of the place of the Bible.

Not exact matches

My friends in the industry say this is a ludicrous oversimplification for a number of reasons including (1) Kenney's valuation is based on what he called the «current global market value» ($ 60 / barrel) which doesn't apply to bitumen, (2) he hasn't included the cost of extraction or the fact producers would never dump that much oil onto the market at once and (3) Albertans only get royalties, not the entire amount.

Such an oversimplification ignores the biographical, religious and political realities running through the history of Christian missions during the «great century» and long before, as missionaries have, in the name of Jesus, striven to understand and learned to respect the particularities of the cultures to which they have come.

At the risk of oversimplification, one can see that the two major approaches toward play which have dominated our culture also characterize the Church's attitudes.

Noll summarizes the situation with what he calls an oversimplification, but to which he lends plentiful support: «Where Britain retained Christendom by subordinating the Bible, America would unleash the Bible by overthrowing Christendom.»

Yet this was a most important oversimplification, for it made possible for the Jews to accept their fate as the just punishment of God, and to accept the Torah as the book by which they would live.

But, allowing for considerable oversimplification, I can at least try to make clear the essential point: the understanding of reality expressed in this kind of metaphysics is one for which all our distinctive experience and thought as modern secular men is negative evidence.

This is possible, but one suspects that it is an oversimplification of the matter, especially when one notes the ease with which language from a text which, on this theory, reflects the historical expectation can be used in a text which reflects the trans - historical.

When I wrote «taxation is necessary unless you want anarchy» it's an oversimplification of what I see as the role of taxation in supporting a government; admittedly I'm making it a binary choice (no taxes = no government; no government = anarchy) which may not follow.

An illustration from history which risks oversimplification may clarify some relationships between the three types of freedom.

As far as wanting us to be happy when we win (which we are) and sad when we loose (same her) is an oversimplification of keeping fans out of the long term issues that plague this club.

They've been buying good food, but have no exposure to the tricks it will take to outwit the machines, which are best envisioned — and this is a gross oversimplification — as hoppers into which top - flight ingredients are fed, only to emerge transformed and in plastic packets at the other end.

The reaction among scholars, activists, journalists, bloggers and PanAfricanists was immediate in identifying the inaccuracies, exaggerations and oversimplifications, which addresses «crimes... from a bygone era» as a tool to cultivate American military support (read intervention) for the Ugandan government, «a repressive dictatorial regime» responsible for looting, rape and atrocities in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

I argue that the failure of the international community is a result of a systemic and institutional oversimplification of that complexity which informed modes of engagement with conflict actors.

That was the approach Darling adopted in the budget today, as he did in the pre-budget report at the end of 2009, and which looks set to be part of a developing story of departmental cuts that will be announced from Whitehall this afternoon... As ever, one must guard against exaggeration and oversimplification, but the 2010 budget, which may be Labour's last for a long time, was a very Mandelsonian speech.

One is that there is no interaction between antibody - mediated immunity and T cell immunity (which we know is an oversimplification), and that the future universal vaccines do not actually protect against infection (this does seem a rather radical assumption).

While headlines need to draw attention and engage the reader for obvious reasons, oversimplifications like «gene editing» and dramatic phrases like «three parent babies» can really get in the way of broadening the understanding of science, which is difficult enough as it is.

Although Dr. Fung advocated any whole food approach that limited processed foods (this may be an oversimplification), he didn't reallly dictate which diet was best.

Journalists that can't be bothered to stay up - to - date on scientific publications and instead hyper - focus on their pet subject of bureaucracy and corporations which make deals to deceive the citizenry which can't be bothered to stay up - to - date on scientific publications and instead hyper - focus on their pet subject of bureaucracy and corporations produced this oversimplification of the science and subsequent oversimplification of blame on the food industry.

This notion, partly true and conveniently vague, derives largely from oversimplifications of what are still probably the best - known writings on Bresson in English: Susan Sontag's 1964 essay on his «spiritual style» and Paul Schrader's grouping of Bresson with Dreyer and Ozu in his 1972 book on «transcendental style,» which respectively predate the second half and the last third of Bresson's career.

Stereotypes, by definition, are oversimplifications, which means that many layers and nuances are frequently missed.

(An oversimplification, but I found myself identifying with a comment from 1maia asserting that «Most american men write about being rich but bored and shagging their friend's wife, which i can neither relate to nor find interesting.»)

Also, they are often moved to the schedule's end, which makes them ripe for gross oversimplification (if they don't get cut altogether).

The experts need also to account for representing their oversimplification (which is in a form that resists refutation) as a credible representation of reality and has been examined to the extent that it should be considered as settled science.

Christy began with the misleading argument that CO2 is plant food, which is a gross oversimplification of a complex issue, and which is frankly an insult to the intelligence of his audience.

The simplistic way in which this is defined and calculated makes the whole concept an artifact of the oversimplification.

What I should have said that given how your search processes are designed, (warning: oversimplification) for example by relying to some degree on term frequency, indexes as metadata have the potential to drive certain search results higher (depending on weighting and other factors), which may or may not be what you want to do.

As an oversimplification of the current debate: Some would like to see an increase in block size which would enable more on - chain transactions per second; others would like to see the block size limit remain low in an effort to limit the cost of operating a full node while moving some types of payments above the base Bitcoin protocol to secondary layers such as the Lightning Network and sidechains.

«In family matters,» Tesler wrote, «which are inherently complex and deal with a rupture in the most essential human relationships, litigation — which builds in adversarial aggression, oversimplification, and polarization, as well as a focus on blame, is the wrong model.