Sentences with phrase «particular as instancing»

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For instance, if your top customers (as a factor of engagement) are those with 10 to 15 employees or are from a particular industry segment, go deeper within that segment, rather than going wide at this stage.

To gauge the effects a particular development will have on the index, GeoQuant relies on historical trends that serve as corollaries to current events — for instance, impeachment proceedings against President Bill Clinton in the 1990s.

In these instances, much more meaningful disclosure is offered, providing shareholders with useful context as to the value of particular skills to the board and the company.

And in some instances, it has been Scalia and Thomas who have done so more than those who may think of themselves less as originalists (in one recent case in particular Scalia and Thomas dissented from the majority which held that convicted child molesters could be indefinitely imprisoned despite having fully served their sentences based on subtle shifts of language and the over-application of prior case law — no one wants a child molester free and about, but such results focused outcomes are always dangerous).

@fimilleur from time to time mankind experiences the presence of God, there have been and continue to be events that testify to the presence of Him.The multiple gods you continually point to have an unique difference from the God who first revealed His presence to ancient men i.e. the Hebrews.The particular gods you mention roman etc. are all man made and in many instances men themselves i.e. hercules, but even the ancient greeks realized the limitations of their understanding and included an «unknown» God in their worship structure.many cultures did likewise, having a glimpse of God but not the fullness of understanding that was given to the Jews.Whether or not «we» believe, does not alter the fact that God exists as an unique being, whether or not «we» acknowledge Him «we» will stand before Him.You do not choose to understand, but we are actually standing in His presence right now as He is much bigger than the doctrines and knowledge man ascribes to Him those things you find so questionable are the misconceptions and misrepresentations of God made by men throughout history.

in this particular instance — the dorothy business as it relates to this blog — are direct references to Acharya S, whose real name is Dorothy M. Murdock — an author of some arguably controversial books that appear to have caused some butthurt among a few mentally unstable folks.

I take it that the «self - creative unity of the universe» refers to the actual entity insofar as it is a particular instance of creativity.

Just as it was seen that brahman can not exist as a particular being, so «creativity exists only in its individual instances» (WA 15).

Since at one particular point in itself, the stuff of the universe has an inner face, we are forced to conclude that in its very structure — that is, in every region of space and time — it has this double aspect, just as, for instance, in its very structure it is granular.

It is because a particular moral action of an individual is not simply and solely identical with the observation of general principles, but as well as this involves something additional and proper to the particular instance, for which the individual as such must take moral responsibility.

The call of Abraham may be seen as a special instance of the breaking in of God's promise to the universe within the texture of a particular people's existence.

Thus, for instance, deciding ceases to be understandable except as a reduction to these microscopic subdecisions compensated by what I believe to be Hartshorne's general view of the entire process as a collection of particular processes which are part of a general telos manifesting God in process.

67 a 22 (against the Platonic theory of recollection) that «it never happens that we know the particular previously, but we get the knowledge of the instances along with epogoge, recognizing them as it were.

As ingressed in a particular actuality, a particular eternal object is just another instance of itself.

Conceptual feelings, whose abstract generality is so inclusive that they are not limited to any particular instance, need to be particularized so as to acquire an embodied generality.

In an earlier section, I discussed the relation of prehension, a relation that has particular prehensions as instances.

Systematic theology aims to formulate not only critical but constructive proposals that comprehensively integrate both the ways in which probes of the fruitfulness, truth, and fittingness of the witness envision the «Christian thing» as a whole and the ways in which these probes discern particular instances of the «Christian thing.»

As for saying that these other associations are ecclesial communities rather than churches in the full sense — as, for instance, the «particular churches» of Orthodoxy are churches — this should cause no hard feelingAs for saying that these other associations are ecclesial communities rather than churches in the full sense — as, for instance, the «particular churches» of Orthodoxy are churches — this should cause no hard feelingas, for instance, the «particular churches» of Orthodoxy are churches — this should cause no hard feelings.

For when Santayana explains what it is for an essence to be exemplified, or for a truth to be about something, he typically talks of their instances or objects as «facts,» meaning by this some particular bit of the natural world as it is at a specific time and place (as it is directly if physical or derivatively if mental).

This limitation is by no means evident in terms of the ontological principle as we know it from Process and Reality, but it was very real in terms of the ontological principle Whitehead was then working with: «That every condition to which the process of becoming conforms in any particular instance has its reason in the character of some actual entity whose objectification is one of the components entering into the particular instance in question» (EWM 323f).

The distinction arises because in some instances a group of occasions, such as, for example, a particular enduring entity, could have retained the dominant features of its defining characteristic in the general environment, apart from the structured society.

After all, history, and even recent history, knows instances where a powerful personality, temporarily and for particular ends, has come to embody in himself the spirit and purpose of a whole nation, and has been spontaneously recognized as its representative, in a more than formal sense.

A proposition is not a pure essence; though it does not give information as to how it actually functions in particular instances (like an eternal object) it does gesture towards how it could function in concrete occasions.

Pelikan doesn't quite agree — he cites the Apostles» Creed, for instance, as having emerged from baptismal confessions without a primary focus on any particular heresy — but he does readily concede that polemics against heresies are an important reason for the emergence of confessional statements.

Anger as an eternal object is not a value; it is this particular instance of anger as characterizing this particular unit of feeling which is a value.

In extenuation I should plead that in a series of four lectures, intended in each instance of delivery for a general educated public rather than for philosophical and theological experts, of necessity one must be brief and must deal with the topic in a broad way; furthermore, I have not intended to claim that every representative of process - thought would agree with what I have selected as significant nor would find my use of what in fact has been selected compatible with his own particular approach or his own individual conclusions.

By the notion of «interpretation» I mean that everything of which we are conscious, as enjoyed, perceived, willed, or thought, shall have the character of a particular instance of the general scheme.

My reflections arose, as I have indicated, in part from formative books and teachers, but they also grew out of grappling with Scripture (one of the lightning bolts here was the simple but profound insight of realizing once again the ineradicable connection of form and content — for instance, what is said in a parable can not be said in any other way), and with the complex business, endemic to academic theologians, of, as Kierkegaard would put it, becoming a Christian (not in general or for someone else but in particular and for me).

When we ask whether this mythological language can be retained or translated into non-mythological language, we are inevitably confronted with the further question as to the meaning of the mythological language in this particular instance.

Here he writes, in connection with the question of reconstructing authentic teaching of Jesus, «we have reasonably secure ground under our feet only in one particular instance, namely, when there is some way of showing that a piece of tradition has not been derived from Judaism and may not be ascribed to early Christianity, and this is particularly the case when Jewish Christianity has regarded this tradition as too bold and has toned it down or modified it in some way».

Although to do so is to lose the pungency of the original, we may certainly understand it as «even the smallest particle of trust, if it is real trust... «So the appropriate response to the challenge is trust;, trust in God, but trust in God in the concrete situation and in the particular instance, trust in relation to the specific challenge.

A number of examples of logical order come to mind: Plato's realm of Ideas, for instance, constitutes a preassigned pattern that charts particular things and events as real or good only to the degree they conform to these preexistent ideas.

But the whole array of our instances leads to a conclusion something like this: It is as if there were in the human consciousness a sense of reality, a feeling of objective presence, a perception of what we may call «something there,» more deep and more general than any of the special and particular «senses» by which the current psychology supposes existent realities to be originally revealed.

In this particular instance it is not very difficult to imagine scenarios in the not - too - distant future in which there might occur resurgences of socialist policies and ideals: the failure of neo-capitalist regimes in developing societies and / or the formerly Communist countries in Europe to achieve economic take - off; the insight granted to sundry dictators and despots that, while socialism invariably immiserates the masses, it is a very good recipe for enriching those who claim to hold power as the vanguard of the masses; the «creeping socialism» (still an aptly descriptive term) brought on by massive government intervention in the economy in the name of some societal good, e.g., there could be an environmentalist road to socialism, or a feminist one, or one constructed (perhaps inadvertently) with some other building blocks of politically managed regulations and entitlements; or, last but not least, the actual restoration of socialism, by coup or by voting, in a number of countries, beginning with Russia.

For the perfected actuality passes back into the temporal world, and qualifies this world so that each temporal actuality includes it as an immediate fact of relevant experience» (351) 3 Some interpreters refer also to Whitehead's reference to the «superjective nature» of God in Process and Reality: «The «superjective» nature of God is the character of the pragmatic value of his specific satisfaction qualifying the transcendent creativity in the various temporal instances» (88).4 In this case, however, the actual warrant lies again on page 351, as it is under the light of that particular passage that the «superjective character» on page 88 is interpreted as a reference to the objectification of the consequent nature.

It is understood in connection with Aristotle, Locke, Hume and even Descartes.17 In the Category of Explanation xviii, it is formulated as follows: «that every condition to which the process of becoming conforms in any particular instance has its reason either in the character of some actual entity in the actual world of that concrescence, or in the character of the subject which is in process of concrescence.»

As a series of famous incidents has shown (for instance, Westminster's decision in 1977 to publish John Hick's Myth of God Incarnate, despite intense protests from some church members), a denomination's self - restraint in decisions about publishing particular titles is an essential concomitant of support for publishing.

Consider some possibilities: See «the church» as an abstract (theologians») ideal of which individual congregations are concrete and relatively enduring particular instances?

Whether such instances are more or less frequent at any particular place or time makes no difference to the fact, which is taken so much as a matter of course, that traditional moral theology is scarcely really aware of the problem of principle which is in fact raised by it.

By this notion of «interpretation» I mean that everything of which we are conscious, as enjoyed, perceived, willed, or thought, shall have the character of a particular instance of the general scheme.

Griffin & Sherburne, New York: The Free Press, 1978, 5) Religion, following this method, starts from»... truths first perceived as exemplified in particular instances.»

It is also emphatically to be observed that in very fact the principle of exact retaliation is not normative in the Old Testament; that the law is demonstrably of Canaanite formulation as it appears here, borrowed for an interim period by Israel, and retained only for certain particular cases as a norm of judgment in specific instances of injury.

To talk of substance is to suggest (however different may have been the meaning of that word in the classical and medieval period) something that exists in and for and of itself alone, without any necessary dependence upon that which is not itself: while to put the adjective individual before substance is to talk as if this substance could be seen primarily as a particular instance of a more general class.

There were two particular instances where the 22 - year - old would have infuriated his manager as he tried an extravagant bicycle kick which failed as well as a back - heel to no - one when he thought his left - back had come up to support him.

Exeter City (just as a for instance, I don't have a particular axe to grind with them, honest) get tickets!

In the end, it all comes back to education: In the ideal world, a parent's decision about whether to allow a child to start playing or continue playing collision sports before high school under current rules of play (which are evolving in the direction of safety, fortunately, as seen, for instance, in USA Hockey's ban on body checking at the Pee Wee hockey level and below, and limits on full - contact practices instituted at every level of football, from Pop Warner, to high school, college, and the NFL), will be a conscious one; a decision in which the risks of participating in a particular sport - provided it is based on the most up - to - date information about those risks and a consideration of other risk factors that might come into play for their child, such as pre-existing learning disabilities (e.g. ADHD), chronic health conditions (e.g., a history of history of multiple concussions or seizures, history of migraines), or a reckless and overly aggressive style of play - are balanced against the benefits to the child of participating.

Because most of the action takes place inside your child's head, detailed costumes — such as those specific to particular cartoon characters, for instance — aren't really that helpful.

For instance, newborns lose heat easily, and preemies in particular have trouble regulating their body temperature, as they lack the energy or fat reserves to generate heat and the body mass to maintain it.

To that end, campaigns often make it very clear where money is going, for instance raising funds for a particular stated task such as running TV ads or supporting grassroots organizing in a defined area.

In this particular instance he said, Mr. Anyidoho can be described as having been «possessed» by one such spirit such that he lost control of what he was saying and went overboard.