Sentences with phrase «premises of»

No, Bruce, the premises of the wager are absurd from the get go.

The root premises of your silly Christian fairy tales are absurd and false.

If the time comes, and it has, when men are either uninterested in those major premises of universal and general truth (i.e., «all men are unrighteous») or they question the authority of their source (i.e., church or scripture), then those whose mission it is to convince others must go into the marketplace prepared to reason inductively.

According to logician Trudy Govier, «The fallacy of equivocation is committed when a key word in an argument is used in two or more senses and the premises of the argument appear to support its conclusion only because these senses are not distinguished from each other.»

Asking who «created» the creator is a non-sequitur because it violates the premises of the argument: that there must be a first cause for material things by necessity, and so there must be some immaterial cause above and outside of the universe itself.

A small but growing number of scientists have been critical of the materialistic, mechanistic, deterministic, substantialist premises of modern science.

Thus, concluded the Cardinal, there are no grounds for rapprochement between the Church's perennial teaching and the non-theistic premises of mainstream evolutionary theory.

With this verse, John pronounced definitively on the Bible's conception of God as a God of Truth, who acts with respect for the premises of reason.

Yet the traditions of science embody unconscious premises which over a period of time are in two - way interaction with the premises of cultural traditions and institutions.

Whitehead repudiates all three premises of the subjectivist principle.

Part of Whitehead's cure for the ills of modern philosophy involves the repudiation of aspects of the substance - quality mode of thought that are not immediate premises of the subjectivist principle and are not necessarily connected with the problem of repeatability and unrepeatability.

In other words, part of Whitehead's cure for the ills of modern philosophy involves the repudiation of aspects of the substance - quality mode of thought that are not immediate premises of the subjectivist principle and are not necessarily connected with the problem of repeatability and unrepeatability.

One may not accept the premises of Anglican polity, but in this case the polity has done its work with integrity according to its own self - understanding.

Wright represents the pole which claims that historical accuracy about Jesus can be grasped only through the premises of faith and theology; Borg, at the other end, is convinced that historical testimony is valid only insofar as it can be cleansed of distorting confessions of post «Easter faith.

One of the premises of separation of church and state is to prevent this type of result.

On the other hand, this country was also founded on the basic premises of freedom — for all Americans.

It is one thing to say, as the courts already have, that the moral precepts of Christianity and Judaism may not supply the premises of the law in a secular state.

For example, after trying a number of definitions of mathematics, Whitehead settled in that article on Russell's definition of mathematics as the «science concerned with the logical deduction of consequences from the general premises of all reasoning» (MAT 291), In fact, the article «Mathematics» is the most accessible, most approving and best summary of Principia Mathematica ever done by Whitehead.

Neither should we choose any of the numerous works in which Whitehead establishes mathematics as derivative from the abstract theory of classes or intuitive set theory, because in these works he acknowledges the paradoxes in set theory that drove him to affirm for a time Russell's logistic thesis that mathematics is the «science concerned with the logical deduction of consequences from the general premises of all reasoning» (MAT 291).

On balance, Berger's theoretical perspective has provided a modern apologetic for the value of religion, arguing not from theological tradition but from the secular premises of social science that humans can not live by the bread of everyday reality alone.

Apparently, one of the basic premises of this view is that ancient Israel cosmology had not yet developed to the point of being able to discern the difference between Yahweh and Satan.

This is good fun, and — if I am right — it comes at no ultimate expense to the self, for, on the premises of the Rad - con, it is strictly overkill; if, by definition, our mental life consists exclusively of neurologically determined events, then those events called memory could not prove the presence of a distinctive self.

(in an appropriate format) the computer would respond negatively, indicating that this conclusion does not logically follow from the premises of the argument.

You may disagree with the premises of religion as much as you want, buddy, but the reasoning and conclusion leading to religious doctrine, especially catholic doctrine, are among the best works in logic in the history of mankind, made by men a lot more skilled in it than most who live today, I dare say.

Narrative theology accepts the premises of post-modernism at many points but draws a radically different conclusion.

His second criticism is that many contemporary theologians work on the premises of sociology of religion and accept the inevitability of technology.

To the extent that we Christians simply accept the premises of suburban culture, we compromise both the substance of our faith and the effectiveness of our evangelical effort.

Prof. Smolin is troubled (as he should be), but also seems puzzled (as he should not be), about how American jurisprudence departed from the premises of the Framers and Abraham Lincoln.

To the extent that we Christians simply accept the premises of suburban culture, we compromise both the substance of our faith and the effectiveness of our evangelical efforts.

While they are being uprooted in many quarters of modern thought the premises of scientific materialism and reductionist empiricism still have a tenacious hold on our consciousness.

Whether this is the logical outworking of the metaphysical and anthropological premises of liberalism or a radically new thing — and Hans Jonas's analysis would suggest that these are not mutually exclusive alternatives — it marks a point of no return in American public philosophy.

George Kennedy's comment in New Testament Interpretation Through Rhetorical Criticism can be applied to Lincoln and King: «In religious discourse... the premises of argument are usually based on a scriptural authority or personal intuition, enunciated in sacred language.»

You too stop to listen, and you soon realize that Joe Green is saying something utterly scandalous, utterly unexpectable from the premises of modern society.

In the pages of the Wall Street Journal, Peggy Noonan wonders if a string of failures for the Obama administration counts as mounting evidence not only against his primary claim to rule, executive competence, but also against the undergirding premises of liberal political philosophy.

It turned out that the least expensive and most effective way to accomplish this was to send remedial teachers onto the premises of private schools.

What has been shown thus far is that Plantinga, working within the premises of classical theism, is able to develop a notion of «C» omnipotence and hence affirm the genuineness of evil.

When large numbers of intelligent, educated people can not agree on the basic premises of a book, the book is unclear.

All that, plus they want to hide fact that all the premises of their religion around the divinity of Christ and the supposed benevolent nature of their rather horrid BOMITS and so on have zero support in evidence, and their bizarro ceremonies and smokescreens don't fool people quite as well as they did in pre-internet times.

There is NO controversy in the science world about the basic premises of evolution.

The only distinction is that atheists are not so diverse in their premises of atheism in itself; there are really only two flavors.

Our country was founded on the premises of alllowing freedom of religion.

Before you make a decision to purchase the franchise, you should confirm that insurance is available for a fitness center of the type you intend to operate, given that you will not staff the premises all of the time.

One of the key premises of user personas and buyer personas, since their origins, are they can foster a common view of customers within organizations.

It will be held at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service located at 1200 President Clinton Avenue on the premises of the Clinton Presidential Center in downtown Little Rock.

While the main premises of her article is on the macro trends that are pushing buyers to adopt marketing automation, there is perspective in these trends that give insight into how the overall buyer experience is being transformed.

One of the key premises of the book is that investOR returns consistently fall behind investMENT returns.

This also feeds into the premises of two well - known books.

Airbnb gets less press than Uber, but in some respects its even more radical: understanding how it works leads one to question many of the premises of modern society from hotels to regulations.

The BTM's were installed by Cryptobuyer in the premises of Banistmo Bank's headquarters, in Panama.

Federal prosecutors may have executed this search warrant for the premises of an attorney because Cohen may be a subject of an investigation.