Sentences with phrase «primitive ideas»

These forums are actually pretty good for debugging primitive ideas and pilfering bits of knowledge to make the objective arguments stronger.

The balancing would require rescuing two primitive ideas found among Jesus» followers.

Moreover, the sublimation of actual eating and drinking into smelling the offerings was probably an endeavor to rarefy the more gross conception of the god, and it revealed in the background the primitive ideas it sought to overpass.

I don't hang onto primitive ideas that don't work anymore.

Primitive ideas that people who look different are not quite human still rules the minds of most white people.

This involves: (i) a given operation or function, (ii) a set of entities, (iii) explanation of the primitive ideas, and (iv) axioms as rules governing the relations of the entities.

Here Whitehead and Russell emphasize «the primitive ideas are by means of descriptions intended to point out to the reader what is meant; but the explanations do not constitute definitions, because they really involve the ideas they explain» (PM 91).

After all, it took two wars, the Holocaust, Stalinism, the H - bomb and Vietnam, among other events, to dampen our optimism sufficiently to allow for a theological reconsideration of primitive ideas such as sin.

Primitive ideas of dreadful unapproachableness in deity had been left behind; the concept of divine sanctity had been sublimated into terms of transcendent purity; and instead of «holiness» meaning aloofness, it could itself characterize a humble and contrite heart.

(I Kings 18:37 - 40) Primitive ideas of prayer were thus thoroughly impregnated with the hope of gaining control over superhuman powers.

Genesis is plain wrong, false, primitive ideas.

The Hindu - Buddhist development, starting from primitive ideas kindred with the Old Testament's early tribalism, traveled a far different road.

What we understand through science has eliminated many primitive ideas regarding cosmogony created by various tribes / societies.

It would be easy enough in these circumstances to say that God is evil or that all this is in accordance with a primitive idea of God.

And what primitive idea of God?

In this view, when the primitive idea of God, which was based on the personification of powers of nature, vanishes gradually behind the infinitude of the causal sequence, the concept of God gains in coherence and consistency in proportion as it achieves a firm position in connection with the claims and needs of the human spirit, and becomes the «irreducible coefficient of the achievement of moral processes in self - consciousness.»

Isaiah's characteristic employment of the term represents a phenomenal subsuming and refinement of the primitive idea of holiness.

Here was a clear contradiction in moral principle between a primitive idea of cosmic penology and a new ethic.

For her, the multiverse is the next step away from the primitive idea of cosmic uniqueness and toward grander enlightenment.

Your primitive idea that noise is a predominantly high - frequency phenomenon is contradicted by all known noise models; low - pass filtering removes signal and noise components idiscriminately.

Not exact matches

To me my knowledge at the present, we have no idea and won't really ever know, what primitive dna looks like because we do not have any way of getting a blood sample from millions of years ago.

Whatever its origin — and I myself agree with Wellhausen and others in attributing the identification to the primitive Christian community, as their least inadequate and only possible term for one who was thus both human and divine and yet not God (which would have been unthinkable in their realm of ideas)-- whatever its origin, this first great step in the advance of Christology was of endless significance for the later development of Christian doctrine, and it was of paramount importance for the Gospel of Mark.

I have one idea of my own that will probably sound crazy, because we have this idea that ancient people were very primitive.

Blended with such primitive conceptions was the idea of the sacred bond created between man and man and between man and deity, whether by sharing in a common feast or by having the blood of the sacrifice applied both to the sacred altar and to the persons of the devotees.

But it does suggest that the radical falsity of primitive religious ideas as they stand is not an argument for atheism, as it is rather commonly held to be.

Circumcision also originated in primitive, animistic ideas, but as early as the seventh century it was given an ethical significance: «Yahweh thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love Yahweh thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.»

Alike in the sacred meals of Judaism and of paganism, another idea had from primitive times been dominant — by eating the sacrificed and dedicated food, union was consummated between the worshiper and his deity.

The Old Testament, however, as we shall see, clearly reveals the inner perplexity and the outward conflict involved as religious thought and practice moved from primitive shrines toward the idea of Jesus: «Neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shall ye worship the Father....

A large area of historic Christian theology would have been completely altered if ideas of atonement, especially as related to the blood of Christ, had not been carried over from primitive concepts associated with animal sacrifice.

More important, however, for future religious development than this translation of holiness from primitive untouchableness into majestic greatness and exclusive sovereignty was the baptism of the idea into moral meanings.

Just imagine — If the human race is still around in a thousand years and we were somehow able to listen in on a discussion regarding what we now think is true in all of these areas, I'm guessing there would be lots of chuckling about our «primitive» ideas.

In particular, the denial that epistemology is wholly prior to ontology; the denial that we can have an absolutely certain starting point; the idea that those elements of experience thought by most people to be primitive givens are in fact physiologically, personally, and socially constructed; the idea that all of our descriptions of our observations involve culturally conditioned interpretations; the idea that our interpretations, and the focus of our conscious attention, are conditioned by our purposes; the idea that the so - called scientific method does not guarantee neutral, purely objective, truths; and the idea that most of our ideas do not correspond to things beyond ourselves in any simple, straightforward way (for example, red as we see it does not exist in the «red brick» itself).

The old idea of the «great chain of being» implied that all organisms can be ordered in a single sequence, from primitive to complex.

In his concept of revelation Buber combines the meeting of I and Thou with the idea of «momentary Gods» which Usener has presented as characteristic of the most primitive stage of mythical thinking.

Thus the Old Testament is not to be read as an odd collection of curious stories and ideas from a remote and primitive world, any more than it should be taken, on all its levels indiscriminately, as a definitive statement of unchanging truth.

Such a discussion would also be important because it would help to explain the remarkable and much - noted fact that in Mahayana we find, beside some very crude, coarse, and primitive beliefs, rites, and customs, the most sublime and subtle ideas and teachings.

Yet, primitive people without concepts of scientific investigation came up with an idea that modern science mimics.

The simple fact that there have been so many different theistic religions throughout history, should show that the idea of a «god» is one that has been fabricated by humans to fill a very primitive need.

As Professor A. F. Taylor has insisted in The Faith of a Moralist, all «working» religions which hold sway over the great multitude of men tend to be «revealed»; and even in primitive expressions of the religious impulse something of the idea of «revelation» is to be found.

But it is far from clear that all older ideas were primitive while recent ones are advanced.

Religions which we regard as primitive sometimes surprise us by the comparative elevation of the moral ideas which they contain.

His resurrected body, as described in the assembled narratives of the New Testament, represents alike the original, primitive belief in a resuscitation of the flesh with all its earthly functions still intact and, as well, the later tendency to rarefy and spiritualize the idea of «body» in the risen life.

Your primitive emotional outburst amounts to nothing since you never provide evidence for your lunatic ideas.

Such later developments and interpretations of the primitive belief and practice as we find in Luke, in Paul, in John — these followed in due course, and partly as the result of the transfer of leadership to Jerusalem; in particular the emphasis upon the idea of Jesus» Messiahship, as the future Anointed King of Israel, was characteristic of the Jerusalem outlook.

One of the most important occasions of change in Israel's idea of Yahweh came when this primitive mountain god became the territorial deity of the land of Canaan.

The lesser ideas were the old, inherited jungle of primitive religion; the great prophets were the road - builders laying down a highway through the jungle and out of it.

If you think science can't answer how old the earth is because YOU don't understand how scientists date things, that doesn't mean you can automatically assume primitive nomads from the Bronze Age had any better idea.

I agree with Martin that it might be a good idea for me to try to state my primitive terms, as such.

Why should we chain ourselves to primitive, supernaturally - based ideas?

But can we give any content to concepts like «primitive experience (PR 247), «basic prehensions» (AI 183), «the basic elements of all physical feelings» (PR 248) and similar ideas which appear repeatedly in Whitehead's writings?