Sentences with phrase «primae facie»

Jonathan Miller, Channel 4's foreign affairs correspondent, investigates footage taken from thousands of videos circulating online, with the aim of determining whether or not there is prima facie evidence of widespread and systematic torture being carried out by the Syrian state on its own people.

Of course, for Kleiner to take any action against Pao while the lawsuit is pending would be legally suicidal for the firm — it would be a prima facie act of retaliation.

The coincident strength of commodity prices and the Canadian dollar in recent years has been treated by some as prima facie evidence of Dutch Disease in Canada.

On the economy, I've noted in recent updates that most recessions include one (and occasionally two) positive quarters of GDP growth, so the latest GDP reading was no surprise, and is not prima facie evidence that the recession is over.

While the lagged effects of the increases in interest rates in November and December are yet to flow through, the continuing rapid pace of credit growth is prima facie evidence that financial conditions remain expansionary, especially when viewed in the context of lending rates that are still below the average of the past decade.

The existence of the universe is evidence of universe's existence; however, it does not follow that said existence is evidence per se (or even prima facie evidence) of any casual agency, let alone your preferred causal agency.

Tryggve N. D. Mettinger in The Riddle of the Resurrection: «Dying and Rising Gods» in the Ancient Near East wrote: «There is, as far as I am aware, no prima facie evidence that the death and resurrection of Jesus is a mythological construct, drawing on the myths and rites of the dying and rising gods of the surrounding world.»

When confronted with this verse, most Christians try to mitigate its prima facie meaning.»

Vic, just because you repeatedly assert that this is prima facie evidence does not make it true.

But neither does the prima facie availability of avenues of escape imply that one who sets out on one of those paths will come ultimately to anything but dead ends, impassable swamps, fatal falls from darkened cliffs, or the wandering circles of the lost explorer.

J. L. Mackie... recognizes that the inconsistency can be overcome by saying that all prima facie evil is only apparently evil.

For in spite of its prima facie attraction, and even if there is such a «primal» experience, that experience would not be accessible in any philosophically helpful way, could not be exploited without reliance upon the very analyses and arguments whose lack of immediacy and authority the appeal is seeking to escape, could not (even for oneself) sustain translation into the discursive and dialectical combat zone of philosophy, and could not by itself alone provide a nonarbitrary basis for determining what in it is essential to experience merely as such.

The advantage Ford urges by this revision of terms is the giving of prima facie weight to the temporal connotations of Whitehead's language about earlier and later phases.

It is not helpful to confuse that necessary conversation and debate by injecting a formula such as the prima facie presumption against war.

Joining the continuing debate over whether pacifism and just war doctrine share a prima facie «presumption against war» are Helmut David Baer of the University of Texas and Joseph Capizzi of the Catholic University of America.

But I have surely said enough to establish, at least prima facie, my own case: that there is as much evidence for Chesterton's philosemitism as for his alleged anti-Semitism.

Moreover a prima facie case can be made out for incompatible spatial properties.

In terms of this principle, I expect, one might speak of the prima facie «rights» of nonhuman animals, at least of those that are conscious, and in a more extended sense of the term, the prima facie «right» of the natural order to its own diversity

However, the prima facie favoring of a monistic Whole or relative Totality must face a great deal of questioning before it negates a view of the world as a pluralistic and diverse many.

On my intuitions, this conclusion would be convincing if indeed the very concept of a comprehensive telos implies what the critics assume that it implies, namely, that all moral norms other than the supreme teleological imperative are merely prima facie.

All I can say here is that such a hypothesis regarding the New Testament, which makes such nonsense of its soteriology (a man who merely reveals God can not save us in the way the text says he can and does) and which goes against the prima facie sense of such texts as Philippians 2:6 - 9 and John 20:28, can not long succeed whatever luminaries put their names to it.

Another bit of prima facie evidence that might be considered in favor of Hartshorne's «personalism» is that in Virgilius Ferm's 1945 classic Encyclopedia of Religion, a work to which Brightman contributed forty articles, 14 and in which Brightman had particular editorial input, 15 the article on «God, as personal» was written by none other than Charles Hartshorne.16 This, along with Brightman's review of me Divine Relativity (cited below), suggests that Brightman himself considered Hartshorne a personalist.

Finally, and much as I appreciate rhetorical high spirits, I hope Professor Griffiths will permit me the observation that it really doesn't advance the ongoing debate to suggest that James Turner Johnson is blowing smoke when he explains how James Childress» seminal 1978 article on prima facie duties and the just war tradition jump - started the «presumption against war» trope.

At the same time, a framework of knowing oriented by the cross grants prima facie value to the sort of knowing that comes from the lived experience of struggle at the margins.

In this article Childress formulated just war theory in terms of the logic of prima facie duties as defined by the philosopher W. D. Ross.

The problem with basing a just war theory on the logic of an ethic of prima facie duties is that it has nothing to do with Catholic just war tradition.

Childress argued that war is fundamentally morally problematic, as the killing in war goes against the prima facie duty of benevolence, which rules out killing or inflicting harm on other persons: «[B] ecause it is prima facie wrong to injure or kill others, such acts demand justification.»

Even though it borrows the tradition's terminology (such terms as «just war» and «right intention»), it tries to redefine the content of those terms to fit the paradigm of prima facie duty.

The Challenge of Peace, without reference to the logic of prima facie duties, replicates the structure of Childress» argument exactly: just war theory begins with a presumption against war, and the just war criteria function to override this presumption (or to show that it should not be overridden) in particular cases.

This two-fold belief seems, prima facie, to be in conflict with the evil in the world.

It is simple confusion to think otherwise, and Johnson's recent effort (see FT January) to construe presumption - against in terms of worries about the inherent morality of war, or about the nature of prima facie duties, amounts to nothing more than the blowing of thick clouds of smoke.

Churchmen seemed to have no ideas at all on the subject (6) The earliest form of Christian marriage was a simple blessing of the newly wedded, «in facie ecclesiae» — outside the churches closed doors — to keep the pollution of lust out of God's house.

Might that not supply prima facie grounds for a grievance later in a case involving the tenure of a young professor who was gay or lesbian?

If so, that would account for his reluctance to convict, in spite of a prima facie presumption of guilt involved in the claim itself.

Granting that an indissoluble element of retributive justice attaches to the notion of punishment does not make retribution the whole of justice, nor does it imply that any specific type of punishment is prima facie appropriate.

But besides the sheer prima facie preposterousness of the charge that John Paul II has been taken in by secularist and materialist arguments, my main worry in Prof. Johnson's criticism of the Pope's letter on evolution is the way he continues to suffer under, well, the fallacy of the false dilemma.

The point I am trying to make is this: on the basis of a prima facie examination of human experience, it would seem that there is a basic sense of wonder with regard to there being anything at all.

«Although respect for conscience is a value, it is only a prima facie value, which means it can and should be overridden in the interest of other moral obligations that outweigh it in a given circumstance.»

Doctors as well as patients may misuse this autonomy, but this prima facie balance is preferable to the one - sided emphasis on patient autonomy found in the recent ACOG Committee Opinion.

Prima facie!

Need not mention how «prima facie circumstantial evidence» to God this existence is!

Rather, the main point I want to make, which is to my mind following a Peircean line, is that intuitions are not explicitly cognitive in the sense of exemplifying prima facie rationality; yet they may and should contribute to explicitly cognitive levels of experience.

On the other hand, I would concur with James Felt that the thesis has a prima facie appeal to it because in that case one would be able to consider «the perceptual unities of ordinary experience as ontological unities» (PS 10:59).

13) The above claims have public relevance because they concern the public good; they are no more or less discriminatory than other bona fide claims about the public good, and their contraries or alternatives have no greater prima facie claim to public consideration.

In response, we then went on to give the standard free - will response: that the prima facie plausibility of this contention is deceiving, that while it may seem easy to identify specific aspects of our present system that it appears could be profitably removed with impunity, what the critic must do in this case is identify another entire determinate natural order that would neither imply the present evils, nor imply any similar new evils, but still imply the goods that make human life possible.

I agree that arguments contrary to Farrow's «have no greater prima facie claim to public consideration» than do his.

Prima facie, it is hard to believe that there is no absolute difference between the two cases.

If we wish to know whether Whitehead's cosmology transforms all prima facie evils into apparent evils, we should ask, «From the divine perspective, is there that without which both the world and God could be better?»

The proper definition of apparent evil, however, is prima facie evil which when judged from an ultimate frame of reference is that in the place of which no other realistically possible occurrence could be better.2 «Apparent» evil is not only a means to perfection, but also a morally necessary and justified means.

«Apparent» evil refers to prima facie evils which are ultimately judged to embody the best of all realistically possible alternatives; «genuine» evil refers to occurrences which embody those alternatives which are less than the best of all realistically possible occurrences.