So what we are left with, I fear, is
the kind of complexity only financial institutions and advisers might love because of administrative and other fees.
The first part of the theory states that religious pluralism and societal complexity are inversely related, the reasoning being that while religious pluralism is
itself a kind of complexity, it has an inhibiting influence on those «secular» interactions necessary for the kind of development I have called societal complexity.
Since religious pluralism itself represents one
kind of complexity, it should be clear that
kind of complexity is excluded from this variable.
A new class of crystals is making
that kind of complexity accessible to humans.
There's
all kinds of complexities inherent in the film, and even if the movie turns out to be everything we hope, it doesn't really seem to be something that'll get a lot of awards play.
Sheridan's Ellis and Lofland's Neckbone are presented with
the kind of complexity rarely seen today in any media.
In the tech industry, we call
this kind of complexity, the one that you can get rid of with a better design, «accidental».
That said, there are
all kinds of complexities.
Excerpts from Thesis Hebraism had its own
kinds of complexities.
They just get in the way and add the worst
kind of complexity to the game: complexity that makes the game harder to learn yet no more interesting to play.
«Unfortunately, I think that some people are associating [with the fighting genre]
this kind of complexity that they don't want to learn.
At the same time I do believe that Robin is absolutely right when he insists that if abstract painting is to achieve
the kinds of complexities that are seen in the painters that he highlights (and I would definitely include Vermeer, perhaps especially so) then a deeper understanding of what they achieve through the use of paint would seem not just sensible but necessary but not in the sense of seeking translatable qualities.
«A principle that unites
every kind of complexity theorist, and they are a richly varied class (see § 3 and § 5, below), is that observable «reality» pertaining to any field, physics, biology, chemistry, applied mathematics, economics, etc., is complex but this complexity emanates from simple building blocks — of concepts, methods and rules of interaction.
Aren't well designed markets supposed to handle
this kind of complexity (at least in theory)?
You deal in UK sports and immigration matters; what
kind of complexities do you encounter as these come together?
Who are the types of client you commonly deal with and what
kind of complexities do they bring to you and the firm?
You have previously advised CEOs of FTSE 100 companies negotiate their exit packages; what
kind of complexities did this involve?
The kind of complexity hidden within a «simple» correlation can not normally be communicated or understood in simple sound bites about cause and effect.
Not exact matches
More and more
of these
kinds of problem situations are being created every day as the flow and volume
of mission - critical data accelerates and the
complexity of all data - driven marketplaces grows exponentially.
The proliferation
of communication technologies, the changing structure
of everyday life (due largely to technology), the growing
complexity of family life, the changing understandings and norms
of sexual conduct and the expansion
of consumer culture (as evidenced by unprecedented levels
of consumer debt) are only a few
of the conditions that present pastors with new
kinds of demands.
7 What Lynch objects to is two
kinds of imagination, the univocal and the equivocal, the one which flattens out all the density and variety
of historical
complexity through the imposition
of an idea (the allegorical and didactic mentalities) and the other which sees everything as completely diverse and unrelated to anything else (the fideistic and the autonomous mentalities).
But it seems to me that a particular
kind of story, the parabolic story, the
kind of story which does not assume an ordered world but perceives order only indirectly, intermittently, and beneath the
complexities of personal and social chaos, is the
kind most pertinent to our times.
Of course faithful Christians constantly mediate between the teachings of the Church and our needs in the moment, but the «moral complexity» mindset tempts us to recast this tendency as a kind of sophisticatio
Of course faithful Christians constantly mediate between the teachings
of the Church and our needs in the moment, but the «moral complexity» mindset tempts us to recast this tendency as a kind of sophisticatio
of the Church and our needs in the moment, but the «moral
complexity» mindset tempts us to recast this tendency as a
kind of sophisticatio
of sophistication.
If one is persuaded that Whitehead's account is indeed the most penetrating that now exists, that it does justice to the
complexity of the phenomena
of science and
of history alike, then the fact that it too leads, almost in spite
of the author's apparent intention, to a doctrine
of God as the source and ground
of order is an important further confirmation
of the inescapability for speculative reason
of some
kind of belief in God.
It's silly
of him to declare this with some
kind of finality, as his knowledge is limited as to the depth
of complexity of our existence.
In order to make some advance in the obscurity and
complexity of the question, and to provide a guiding line for our reflections, a distinction must first be drawn, even though we can not but realize that the two poles
of the distinction are linked by manifold connections
of the most complicated
kind.
At the opposite pole which Earley offers, there is the persistence
of «dissipative systems» — a
kind of serial order, it seems to me, with a minimum
of complexity.
When it comes to the end
of life, «moral
complexity» tempts us to recast our tendency to shrink from commitment to the truth as a
kind of sophistication.
Also, it is very puzzling how the nascent occasion — just coming into being and powerless to make any
kind of selection or response — can select just the sort
of aim which is most suitable to it out
of the immense
complexity of the primordial nature.
As beings
of higher
complexity are integrated into the communal «I,» it is better able to comprehend galaxies and universes widely divergent in
kind and
complexity from those more similar to the earth (SM 298 - 300, 310f, 342 - 45).
As a Christian person — the nature and
complexities of this planet
kind of speak to me
of being a God.
It is only by way
of the revelation
of such possibilities that the cosmos could ever evolve toward new
kinds of ordered
complexity.
He also showed how increasing
complexity in the structure
of actual entities introduces radically new structures culminating in intellectual feelings
of several
kinds.
More to the point, just as William Paley, in his perverse way, acted as a
kind of accidental midwife to Darwin's theory, so too I think the speculations
of Michael J. Behe and William A. Dembski (and others, many
of whom belong to the Discovery Institute) will lead not to a more robust theism but to a new impetus to find adequate explanatory laws for chemical
complexity.
Navigating this
kind of evolution can be very complex and challenging — particularly when you are engaging with multiple «audiences» and seeking to be pastorally sensitive to people's readiness and ability to engage the nuances and
complexities that this topic demands.
So we may say that since by a sort
of chain - reaction consciousness, itself borne
of complexity, finds itself in a position to bring about «artificially» a further increase
of complexity in its material dwelling (thus engendering or liberating a further growth
of reflective consciousness, and so on...) the terrestrial evolution
of Life, following its main axis
of hominization, is not only completely altering the scale
of its creations but is also entering an «explosive» phase
of an entirely new
kind.
They also result from the sheer
complexity of many problems, but this fact
of complexity too easily becomes a
kind of umbrella under which the more deliberate efforts to prevent change are the more effective.
The
complexities of technical logic are matched with a
kind of primitive perception, and the combination is awesome.
One can, however, all too easily become caught up in change and
complexity to the point where he loses sight
of the elements
of continuity between this century and former centuries, where he fails to realize that ministers today face essentially the same
kinds of problems and deal essentially with the same types
of people as their forebears did a century or two ago.
These different grades
of complexity will also represent different
kinds of physical existents — for such structures must be more than mere aggregates, as we have seen — with distinct features.
The distinction between us and the animals is not
of degree
of complexity but
of kind.
And because the human skin normally hides from view an utterly amazing
complexity and beauty, the scientia that Bodies promotes is the
kind that is more likely to strengthen than diminish our belief in the sacredness
of human life.
And the extravaganza's music reinforced the impressions
of the «whiteness»
of it all; the harmonies sunk by the Disney troupe were simple and syrupy, a
kind of white sound with less harmonic
complexity than that
of most Muzak renditions.
Other writers have attempted to explain the capacity
of narrative to summarize the
complexities of self - understanding: «Narrative history
of a certain
kind,» says Alasdair MacIntyre, «turns out to be the basic and essential genre for the characterization
of human actions.
The poem is an excellent example
of metaphorical precision, for the
kind of precision achieved here is in direct proportion to the
complexity and richness
of the imagery.
That
complexity, plus the
complexity brought by the yeast, plus the good hit
of butter in the batter, combine to make the
kind of flavor that lasts, that hangs around long after the waffle itself is gone.
They lend depth and
complexity to all
kinds of unexpected dishes like eggplant parm, beans and greens, and even pizza sauce — for as little as $ 6 a jar.
But I still fretted over how I would raise her, what
kind of role model I would be, whether I would take my own smugly written advice on the
complexities surrounding girls» beauty, body image, education, achievement.
To be clear, my criticism
of social weightlessness isn't a criticism
of abstraction per se, because all
kinds of theorising — even those attuned to empirical practice — rely on abstractions to make sense
of the
complexities of social life.
There are always local factors that add layers
of complexity to these
kinds of resignations but it will be worrying for Nick Clegg if he starts seeing many more
of these defections.