Sentences with phrase «philosophical ones»

The UCS opposes the scientific consensus that genetically modified foods are safe — not on scientific grounds, but on philosophical ones.

Over the course of the meeting on this fall day, the 18 - member professional - development committee for the Lexington school system will cover a wide swath of topics about the ongoing training — everything from practical concerns about teacher enrollment in a district - sponsored course to philosophical ones about how to improve teachers» ability...

First, we need to remember the different meanings of water (physical, biological, social, spiritual and philosophical ones), if we want to understand its importance all over the world better, in second place.

And you can write me at [email protected] if you have philosophical ones.

Hollenbach's argument, like Hicks's, rests on empirical and descriptive claims as well as on theological and philosophical ones.

There has been a confusing history of interaction between theological reflections about freedom and philosophical ones.

But this is true of the reflective theological ideas of God as well as philosophical ones.

«We know we play a major role in providing voter decisions but the challenge for us is a philosophical one,» says McCormick.

I wanted to like it, especially after Pete's enthusiastic recommendation and Ramsey's eloquently philosophical one in the thread.

To get AT God, you're going to have to take another tack — namely a philosophical one rather than a scientific one.»

Has anyone a right to assure us, in advance of exploration of the other five, that the Anselmian (unconscious) selection of one among the six — as the faithful rendering either of the religious question or of the most fruitful philosophical one — is safely established by the fact that the choice has been repeated no less unconsciously by multitudes of theologians?

A similar but less partisan question is the philosophical one asking why it is that...

So, the discussion is a philosophical one, not a historical one.

In presocratic thought the naive realistic outlook is not as yet abandoned and the philosophical one is not fully established.

A similar but less partisan question is the philosophical one asking why it is that the ultimate explanatory structure of reality, if such a structure exists and whether or not it is divine, should happen to be just as it is.

The main limitation of O'Mara's book is a philosophical one.

So the subject matter — a philosophical one — has certain natural limits in description.

The theism Whitehead turned toward was a philosophical one.

My issue with the arguments about «climate change» are philosophical one about what we can know in relation to truth.

Hizzoner framed the issue on WNYC as a stark philosophical one, citing former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and former Mayor La Guardia as his role models.

The payoff that Barbour offers is not just a mathematical solution but a philosophical one.

-- it's a philosophical one.

Making a road - going rear - wheel drive R8 wasn't so much a technical challenge as a philosophical one: Audi is all about all - wheel drive.

For Dan Hallett, the issue is really a much more philosophical one.

The problem with WWE 2K16 is both a technical and philosophical one.

In part the problem is a social and philosophical one — people must understand that earthquakes will definitely return, that it is not God's will who will die, and they can have earthquake - resistant homes and schools.

In my Fantasy Draft, you play on the second line (i.e. the formal - economic stuff), while I play on the third, i.e. the philosophical one.

This is not merely an aesthetic or financial choice, but a philosophical one.

If you want the philosophical one, kind of that underlying purpose one that really stands out is we did an interview with Seth Godin that I think a lot of people responded to and a lot of people know who Seth Godin is.

For many, the choice to switch to CyanogenMod is as much a philosophical one.

Not exact matches

This great philosophical divide, with Microsoft and Apple on one side and Amazon and Google on the other, seems to come from their histories.

Year - round attention to detail means that Keflezighi can afford to be relaxed and philosophical with one of the biggest races of his life a week away, as he was when I talked to him a few days ago.

One year later, the 49 - year - old Colorado native is President Donald Trump's pick to replace Scalia as the Republican leader heeded calls by many conservatives to find someone as near to a Scalia philosophical clone as possible.

Jaden and Willow Smith, two of his three kids (one is from a previous marriage), have a reputation for being deeply philosophical in their interviews, known to talk about quantum physics and energy in the air.

No one outside the rarefied world of banking policy has ever heard of B - 20, but Finn Poschmann, VP of research at the CD Howe Institute, calls it «a fairly significant philosophical shift in Canada's regulatory framework.»

But I think it's actually one of the most interesting philosophical questions that we face.

I wrote back then what I write today: bitcoin is only one type of cryptocurrency, and its success / failure has no bearing on the philosophical underpinnings of the digital asset class.

You will excuse me if I am skeptical of the philosophical musings of a man so spectacularly ignorant of natural history that he thinks the World began with one man, one woman and a possessed, talking snake».

But once his work began to be translated, his influence spread rapidly, until he is now widely regarded as one of the great philosophical minds of the nineteenth century.

On the one hand, their field is flourishing: No longer intimidated by the logical positivists (who denied truth to moral assertions except as expressions of likes and dislikes), thinkers as diverse as Iris Murdoch, Martha Nussbaum, and Bernard Williams are leading the attack against such debilitating philosophical notions as Hume's notorious «Is / Ought» distinction and Kant's simplistic fusion of morality with mere duty.

To wax philosophical, I personally believe that there are REAL differences between the genders — which is not to say that one gender is better than or subservient to the other.

One may or may not accept Thomas's metaphysical analysis, but at least one can see that the doctrine of creation, in its philosophical foundations, is not challenged by any discovery in the natural sciences.

On philosophical grounds, this form of accommodationism is inadequate for purposes of dialogue because its portrayal of the other faith (whether by Jews of Christianity or by Christians of Judaism) is one that the other faith — in good faith — can not possibly accept about itself.

But if you are looking for consilience, in which multiple lines of independent evidence converge on the same target, then Schwartz's argument is a good one to have in your arsenal, for it fits nicely with biological arguments for intelligent design (cf. Michael Behe's Darwin's Black Box), recent philosophical work on mental causation (cf. Robert Koons» Realism Regained), cosmological fine - tuning (cf. John Barrow and Frank Tipler's The Anthropic Cosmological Principle), and consciousness studies (cf. Dean Radin's The Conscious Universe).

@ lionlylamb: per rightly dividing the word... the video below is what Paul was talking about (focusing on Christ), not philosophical abstractions... «See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ.»

(Thomas Aquinas gets only one mention in more than sixty pages of text, and then with a reference to his «using the terminology of the philosophical tradition to which he belonged.»

One argument might focus on a philosophical anthropology: the natural ends of the body and the proper function of the sex organs.

Truth and Method is «one of the great philosophical works of the twentieth century» because it leads us where the modern mind» «which as a matter of fact is in a hopeless impasse,» notes Gadamer» will not go, resists going with every thought, yet absolutely needs to go.

At one Evangelicals and Catholics Together meeting, writes Tom, the Catholic co-chairman of ECT, which Chuck helped found twenty years ago, some of the Catholic members questioned the value of natural law arguments «on the philosophical ground that no reason exists that is not already deeply saturated with prior pre-understandings and commitments.»

One of the glories of science is that people come together to do it who have all sorts of religious beliefs, philosophical views, cultural backgrounds, and political opinions.